American Idiot is the seventh studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released on September 21, 2004 through Reprise Record and produced by longterm collaborator Rob Cavallo. In mid-2003, the band began recording songs for an album titled Cigarettes and Valentine.
However, the master tracks were lost and the band decided to start over rather than re-record Cigarettes and Valentines. They decided to produce a "Rock Opera", inspired by the work of The Who and numerous musicals.
It follows the life of "Jesus of Suburbia", a sort of anti-hero created by Billie Joe Armstrong Following early recording at Oakland California's Studio 880, the band finished the album in Los Angeles.
The album achieved popularity worldwide, charting in 26 countries and reaching number one in nineteen of them, including the United States and the United Kingdom. Since its release, American Idiot has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and over five million copies in the US including 267,000 in its opening week.
The album won numerous awards including a Grammy for Best Rock Album, and received acclaim by critics.
American Idiot peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. It achieved five times platinum status in the United States, eight times platinum status in Canada and six times platinum status in the United Kingdom.
Five singles were released in support of the album, all of which charted on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" topped both the Mainstream and the Modern Rock charts. Its music video received heavy airplay on music television.
In 2005, American Idiot won a Grammy for Best Rock Album and was nominated in four other categories including Album Of The Year. The album helped Green Day win seven of the eight awards they were nominated for at the 2005 Mtv Video Music Award the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" video won six of those awards. A year later, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" won a Grammy for Record Of TheYear.
Most recently the American Idiot album has been turned into a Broadway musical that has been playing strong now for half a year.
I hope you guys to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the album american idiot by listening to an album during the December 21 september 2010
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