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They have officially surpassed one billion streams on Spotify with Basket Case. Now it's American Idiot's turn to hit that goal

Hey, so I work in live sports television (Bally Sports, specifically, Cleveland Guardians and Cavs) and one of our March Artists of the Month is Green Day! Interestingly enough the song we're allowed to use is Corvette Summer, so basically you'll hear this song used in highlights and stuff during the broadcast. Kind of an odd choice to use for the NBA, but could definitely see this working for MLB/summer. Here's the email I got.

Might as well put this here since it's going on GDA

Billie's pic from the end of his story

I was looking for something completely different earlier today and found these from the Mountain View show in 2010 (from Getty Images)

Don't remember seeing these before. Or these from the Longshot tour. I definitely haven't seen Billie wearing a hard hat onstage before.

Yes I think the Garage is 11pm, they said they usually put stage times on their twitter in the day! Does anyone know if there will be any kind of merch, I know it's a long stretch but would be nice to have something to commemorate the gig!

Billie’s tagging all over London again. Steamboat Willie and the Punk/Drunk Bunny this time!

Nobody in the entire history of the world has the hair they want! 😂

Ruby Room is staying open. https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/ruby-room-oakland-green-day-18685014.php

It's a milestone people should care if one of the hits gets 1 billion. It's not like life is Saviors or something.

I care about a song from thirty years ago 😄.

Yay!!! 🥳🥳🥳

I think I know what's going on. Derek is retiring from Sum 41 so he become the new frontman for Green Day, Linkin Park AND The Network. Well, he's always been Fink but now he's going to be openly Fink.

Just got done watching Bullet in A Bible. I can not even express how much I love Green Day. They really saved my life. Thank you. 🤘❤️

I wonder what Green Day (or Warner) will do with the $3.50 coming their way from 1,000,230,452 streams of Basketcase on Spotify. In all seriousness, a billion streams is a big deal. Starting out as the rickety story of Swank and Houston, Basketcase was rewritten and given the Cavallo treatment to become one of the biggest songs in the world. As a weirdo who likes a good deal of other Green Day records more than Dookie, even I recognize this song's appeal. It's relatable, funny, sad, rockin' - it really is a perfect song and deserves more plays than "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd. Anybody here NOT like Basketcase? I'm all about some hot takes so I won't give you crap about it.

Basket Case is eternally awesome. Don’t be a downer

Well deserved. There’s just something about Basket Case I can never get bored of it. Every time I hear it it feels like the first time. Always a thrill. The riff, the lyrics, the drums! Perfection. Congrats Green Day, don’t spend it all in one place 😄 💚 Basket Case

I'm playing Fancy Sauce 360 times a day, only skipping the last second because there's not enough time in one day to listen more than that. What are you doing to help the plight of deep cuts in 2024, my friend?

I love that he’s still a petty criminal at 52 😄

WTF!? No! Q: how do I stop buying Green Day stuff? A: keep buying everything until I’ve got it all and there’s nothing left to buy

I love this

I’m hoping for some merch too!

Good news, some of my CD's came in today! Sad news is the jewel cases on the CD's I bought on ebay got destroyed through shipping. Not all of them thankfully, but Shenanigans and ¡Dos! were pretty jacked up. Atleast the CD's work. The seller also put in the CD's in the case upside down (meaning the design was on the bottom).

I can’t believe it but I’ve got a ticket to the 100 Club show on Friday. It hasn’t sunk in yet just how close I’m going to be to the guys. Waaaaaaah!

I have it but don't consider it a blessing , I also need some product tips from Billie I just got a thinned out short bob cut at the hairdresser today, the less of it to deal with the better!

Omg that's so cool. We met Cone in the airport on the way to see Green Day (21CB tour) and he told us he'd seen the show that tour and how good it was! They were at the small GD show in Vegas too

American Idiot. Let's go you so called fans! 😄

Now we just need to wait for Basketcase to get 1 billion views on YouTube. 😄

Only 587 songs have done this in history.

We have won, GDC! We managed to hit such a milestone.

Pretty sure I saw that they had merch at the NYE show but that might have been because it was for charity. I'm sure there were some other t-shirts once upon a time but not sure if they were for a show or online Found it. Looks like they were for Xmas (an Xmas show?)

Can’t wait, if there’s any GDC members grabbing a beer near by on Tuesday let me know !

Listen to Billie whine about nothing and everything all at once for Basket Case day. I can imagine that on a billboard in the East Bay. lol

Today will be national Basketcase Day!!!!!

I am uncovering many weird and wonderful things in my quest to upload all the digital Green Day stuff I've collected over the years to the GDA Tumblr. Today's discovery is this 2010 relic from when we were trying to work out the lyrics to Oh Girl.

Currently watching Bullet in a Bible. May God bless his favorite band. Legendary🤘.

Amazing album but I’m ready to go to hell for my useless GD opinion today! Wee: My favorite songs from the album are constantly changing, while my 3 least favorite songs have been the same (and no, I don’t skip them when they’re on): bobby Sox- a bit boring and the repetitive falsetto “ooos” feel generic, not fun. The scream is the best part. Now the making of video is Awesome as fuck! dilemma- a bit boring. Scream and lyrics save it. The making of video shreds, though! father to a son - gotta be in the mood, otherwise a bit cheesy. Mix is weird. String arrangements are cool as hell!

I've seen Shuttlecraft on YT! I don't like the vocals but awesome covers.

My only theory is that they probably made "80" track 8 on Kerplunk on purpose

Thank you for making my day 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times better 😍.

True haha. I think the real answer is have naturally very thick, curly, voluminous hair, then straighten it and use products to tame it.

Oh, that’s a bit naughty, it clearly costs her a bundle to keep running.

I suggest you cover Coffee and Repent for April Fools.

Ooh, weird stuff just made me think of the one thing I really wanted, but was never able to find- Billie's Spanish candle from the God's favorite band era. I thought for sure people would be selling those individually on ebay, but never came across them.

I used to collect a lot too up until around 2010/2011 and did spend over the odds on some of the stuff I bought back then. I just can't afford it these days though and honestly I don't have anywhere to put it. Even If I did have a little bit of money I'd rather spend it going to a show but the prices for that have gone up astronomically too

So much lore around Idiot. Billie's wild behavior. Multiple albums recorded. Mike left alone in the studio. Guest vocalist Kathleen Hanna. The Network mysteries. Green Day nearly breaking up. The people that inspired the story, from presidents, politicians to ex girlfriends, parents and stepparents. The media. Hopefully most will be revealed here.

Saviors pink and green "splatter" vinyl and the signed CD 😌

Just bought the 25th Anniversary Insomniac Vinyl because they don't have it for CD. I don't even have a turntable but I have The Longshot vinyl too. Gonna post a beautiful picture of my Green Day collection this weekend.

The Dookie CD box set of course! 😄