Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Green Day’s American Idiot climbs the U.K. charts amid renewed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Green Day’s “American Idiot” hits 800 weeks on the U.K.’s Official ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The album spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart (with a whopping 123 weeks on the chart in general) ...

Exactly two decades ago, five-time GRAMMY® Award-winning band Green Day forever changed punk rock and popular culture with their conceptual magnum opus, American Idiot. Commemorating the GRAMMY® Award ...

Two-time Tony Award-winning production American Idiot will soon be making its way to Melbourne. The musical, written by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and co-writer Michael Mayer, will be ...

Green Day kicked off the Super Bowl LX festivities tonight (February 8) at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The Bay Area natives Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool ran through a ...

There’s a scene in “American Idiot” when Will, a young man about to start a new life in the city with his friends, receives the unexpected news that he’s about to become a father. He gets left behind ...

Green Day will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their American Idiot this October with a massive reissue that pairs the original 2004 “punk rock opera” with its B-sides, bonus tracks, unreleased ...

The politically charged song was first released in 2004, on the album of the same name. It was the fifth major studio album for the California punk band, and while they found major success beginning ...