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American Idiot
Green Day
Green Day - American Idiot
American Idiot
RaitingSR
Supervision Recommended
Information
Released 2006
Genre Rock
Language English
Source Green Day: Rock Band
Available June 8, 2010
Playable in
Rock Band
Rock Band 2
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Green Day: Rock Band
Green Day: Rock Band
Difficulty
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Basic Pro
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Drums 4FcircleFcircleFcircleFcircleUFCirlce 4FcircleFcircleFcircleFcircleUFCirlce
Keys NoNo Part NoNo Part
Vocals 2FcircleFcircleUFCirlceUFCirlceUFCirlce NoNo Part
Details
Male singer
Guitar Solo






"American Idiot" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day and is the first single from their seventh album, American Idiot.

Released in 2006, the single peaked at #61 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Green Day's first Billboard Hot 100 chart entry (excluding singles that charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart), helping revive the band's career. However, the appearance of "American Idiot" on the US singles charts occurred just prior to Billboard Magazine's inclusion of internet download purchases into their Billboard Hot 100 chart data, which would have made a significant difference in the song's peak had it benefited from the new chart tabulation system. This most recent form of sales assessment has resulted in the far greater successes of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Holiday" and "Wake Me Up When September Ends".

"American Idiot" became Green Day's first Top 5 single in the United Kingdom, reaching #3, and peaked at #7 in Australia. It debuted at #1 in Canada, holding onto the zenith position for five weeks.

In Australia, the song was ranked #22 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2006

Green Day performed this song at the 2007 Grammy Awards. The album won for Best Rock Album.[1]

The song was featured in the trailer for the 2007 film Wedding Crashers. An edited version of the song is featured on the soundtrack of the American football video game Madden NFL 05 2007. It was featured as the closing theme song for the first season of the "Andy Milonakis" show. "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song on his album Straight Outta Lynwood as "Canadian Idiot" - a satirical commentary on American nationalism and the stereotypical American view of Canadians. In The Simpsons Movie, the song was played by an organist at the band's funeral. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine covered this song into a lounge style on their 2007 album Aperitif for Destruction, and Avril Lavigne did as well in 2008. The guitar riffs of the song were sampled for the theme for Johnny Test and multiple episodes of the show.

It was ranked the #13 Single of the Decade by Rolling Stone magazine in 2009.

References[]

  1. "American Idiot". Songfacts.com. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3937. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 

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