“When I Come Around” was one of the most successful songs of 1995. It topped Billboard‘s Alternative Songs chart for seven weeks, and it also hit number two on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. It was Green Day’s third straight number-one from Dookie (after “Longview” and “Basket Case“). As of August 2010, “When I Come Around” has sold 639,000 copies. This makes it the band’s second best-selling single of the 1990s, behind only their 1997 hit “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)“.^[6]

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Billie Joe Armstrong has said that the original concept was to create a song whose lyrics were made up of all signs and labels, and the idea grew from there.^{[citation needed]}

The song was played for the first time during Bridge School Benefit played acoustic in 1999.

The song was a number three modern rock hit in the US. The song also made it into the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart in the UK. It has been noted that the song’s main guitar riff bears strong resemblance to The Kinks song “Picture Book“.^[3]

This is the first Green Day song to feature a tremolo effect on the guitar; an effect used prominently in the 2004 single “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”.

Despite being included in the band’s greatest hits albums International Superhits! and God’s Favorite Band as well as appearing as a playable track in their game Green Day: Rock Band, the band has not performed the song live since 2001, one year after their album of the same name was released.

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The song became a hit single, peaking at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was also a top-10 single in the United Kingdom, Belgium, and New Zealand and was a number-one single in the Czech Republic. In the United States, the song became symbolic after Hurricane Katrina, where it was dedicated to victims of the disaster, and also regarded as a dedication to the victims of the September 11 attacks that occurred in 2001. The song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

The song’s music video depicts a couple broken apart by the Iraq War, which was intended to convey the song’s central theme of loss.

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The song was heard on several US radio stations prior to the scheduled August 22 release date. Around the same time, Green Day was shooting the music video for the song. At the end of August, the single debuted on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart at number 17. The video first aired on September 14 on MTV‘s Total Request Live. A retail single was released the next day. In the UK, the single first entered the Official Charts at number 18 at the end of September, and stayed on the chart for three weeks.^[3] At the end of October, a four-track maxi single was released on vinyl through Adeline Records.

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In 1995, Green Day received four Grammy Award nominations, including Best Hard Rock Performance for “Longview”.^[7] The song was ranked at number 3 on the list of the Best Singles of 1994 by Rolling Stone.^[8]

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The song achieved considerable popularity across the world and performed moderately well on the charts. In the US, it reached number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. It debuted at number 11 in the United Kingdom and reached the top 20 in Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, and Norway.

The song has appeared in various media, including the 2006 comedy film Accepted and an episode of CSI: NY. It was also used as the goal song of the Vancouver Canucks during their run to the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals; the Canucks also reused it for Henrik Sedin‘s personal goal song in 2016–17 and for the team as a whole during the 2018–19 NHL season.^[3] “Holiday” was also featured in the soundtrack of the video game Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland.^[4]

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The song was later featured as the fourteenth track on their International Superhits! (2001) and as the eighth track off of God’s Favorite Band (2017).

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“Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” became a chart hit, peaking at number 11 on the US Billboard Radio Songs chart and reaching the top 20 in Australia, Canada, Iceland, and the United Kingdom. As of November 2014, the song had sold over 2.6 million download copies.^[1] It was certified platinum in the United Kingdom for sales and streams of 600,000 units.

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