American Idiot

2004 album by American rock band Green Day
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Summary

American Idiot is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 0.16% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,223 views/month, #97 of 60,676).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: John Roecker[3]
  • Genre: punk rock[4], grunge[5]
  • Producer: Rob Cavallo[6]
  • Performer: Green Day[7]
  • Record label: Reprise Records[8]
  • Place of publication: United States[9]
  • Part of: Green Day's albums in chronological order[10]
  • Language of work or name: English[11]
  • Distribution format: compact disc[12], music streaming[13], music download[14]
  • Publication date: September 21, 2004[15]
  • Tracklist: American Idiot[16], Jesus of Suburbia[17], Holiday[18], Boulevard of Broken Dreams[19], Are We the Waiting[20], St. Jimmy[21], Give Me Novacaine[22], She’s a Rebel[23], Extraordinary Girl[24], Letterbomb[25], Wake Me Up When September Ends[26], Homecoming[27], Whatsername[28]
  • Lyricist: Billie Joe Armstrong[29]
  • Topic's main category: Category:American Idiot[30]
  • Title: American Idiot[31]
  • Duration: 3436 seconds[32]
  • Charted in: Top Albums France[33]
  • Number of parts of this work: 13[34]
  • Form of creative work: studio album[35]

Product Details

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  • Release type: Album[36]

  • First release date: 2004-09-20[37]

  • Genre(s): alternative punk, alternative rock, pop punk, pop rock, power pop, punk, punk rock, rock, rock opera[38]

  • Community tags: alternative, alternative and punk, alternative punk, alternative rock, melodic, passionate, political, pop punk, pop rock, power pop, punk, punk revival, punk rock, rebellious, rock, rock opera, romantic, urban[39]

  • MusicBrainz ID: de9bf827-a9b0-348b-a7c9-556c03c3fb07[40]

Why It Matters

American Idiot has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  31. [33] ↑ . lescharts.com. Retrieved . lescharts.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [39] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [40] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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