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Green Day Green Day is a California based pop punk band consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong (lead vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing vocals, born Michael Ryan Pritchard), and Tré Cool (drummer, backing vocals, born Frank Edwin Wright III, in Germany). Since their sixth album, the band have included close friend and associate, back-up guitarist Jason White. This major success has been seen in other major punk bands, such as Sum 41 and Blink 182. Along with other bands on the Lookout! label, they are credited as being the pioneers of the pop punk genre popularizing the genre to the mainstream with the 1994 album Dookie. Dookie has been certified diamond (10 million copies shipped) in the United States since its release. Their second best-selling album American Idiot came a decade after Dookie, in 2004, enjoying huge critical and fan acclaim. A year after its release, it has been certified quadruple platinum in the US, has sold 8 million copies world-wide and won the band a Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album". Green Day swept the MTV Video Music Awards 2005 winning seven out of eight nominations: "Video of the Year", "Best Rock Video", "Best Group Video", "Best Direction", "Best Editing", "Best Cinematography" - all for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", and the "Viewer Choice Award" for "American Idiot".

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