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Green Day blow away all competition in the 2001 California Music Awards (formerly the Bammies.) They won 8 statuettes: Outstanding Album (Warning), Outstanding Punk Rock/Ska Album (Warning), Outstanding Group, Outstanding Male Vocalist (Billie Joe Armstrong, right), Outstanding Bassist (Mike Dirnt, center), Outstanding Drummer (Tre Cool, left) Outstanding Songwriter (Armstrong) and Outstanding Artist for the group.
- In Spin magazines list of the top 40 bands
in 1997, Green Day are ranked #36 despite not having released an album
for two years.
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On MTV's "Top 100 Of 1996 Countdown" on New
Years Eve, Green Day's Walking Contradiction video ranked #64, and their
Brain Stew/Jaded video ranked #40.
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On The 1996 American Music Awards, the guys
got the nominations for Best Alternative Group (lost to Pearl Jam), and
Best Artist (lost to Garth Brooks).
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On MTV's countdown of the best music video's
of all-time, Green Day ranked #1 in 1996 for "Geek Stink Breath".
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On MTV's "Top 100 Of 1995 Countdown" on New
Years Eve, Green Day's Geek Stink Breath video ranked #48, and their When
I Come Around video ranked #4.
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On MTV's "All-Time Alternative Rock Countdown"
in 1995, Green Day's Longview video ranked #35, their When I Come Around
video ranked #13, and their famous Basket Case video ranked #4.
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In the June 1995 Seventeen mag, Billie Joe
is one of the "Top 10 Guys You Want". He is along side the likes of Keanu
Reeves and Ethan Hawke. Also, Green Day was voted Best Band in Seventeen
Magazine's Seventh Annual Readers' Poll. They also got second place for
best video from "When I Come Around".
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The May 1995 Circus poll results gave:
Best New Artist: Green Day
Best CD: Dookie
Best CD cover: Dookie
Best Bassist: Mike Dirnt
Best Drummer: Tre Cool
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The Bay Area Music Awards were given out March
11, 1995 at San Francisco's Warfield Theatre. Here are some winners in
the 18th annual Bammie Awards given out.
Outstanding Album: Dookie - Green Day
Outstanding Group: Green Day
Outstanding Bassist: Mike Dirnt - Green
Day
Outstanding Drummer: Tre Cool - Green
Day
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Kerplunk spent 2 weeks at #1 on the Billboard
Pop Catalog Album Chart in March 1995.
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When I Come Around was #1 on Billboard's Modern
Rock charts for 7 weeks, in January and February, 1995. This breaks their
previous best of six weeks atop the chart for Basket Case in summer '94.
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On Rick Dee's top 94 songs of 1994, Green
Day are ranked 4th with "When I Come Around".
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After 52 weeks on the Billboard album chart,
Dookie was still in the top 10 (#2) in February '94. The album sold over
twelve million copies worldwide, and finished as the #24 album of 1994
in Billboard's year-end chart. It was the fifth-best selling album of 1994,
according to Spin, Feb 1995, with sales of 3.3 million. Also, the singles
Longview and Basket Case logged in at #3 and #4 respectively on Billboard's
1994 year-end Modern Rock chart, and Green Day rank as Billboard's #2 Modern
Rock artists of 1994.
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Four 1995 Grammy Nominations:
Best New Artist. (lost)
Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With
Vocal, Basket Case. (lost)
Hard Rock Performance, Longview. (lost)
Alternative Music Performance, Dookie.
(WON)
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Green Day were also nominated for a 1995 American
Music Award, for Alternative Artist, but they lost to the Counting Crows.
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Congratulations to Green Day for having MTV's
#1 video of 1994 (Basket Case). They also have MTV's #18 (Longview) and
#70 (When I Come Around - Woodstock version). The regular version of the
When I Come Around video was #1 on MTV's video countdown for four non consecutive
weeks.
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MTV also had a poll about who was "IT" in
the world, during the first week of February, 1995. Billie Joe came in
#3 in the top 10.
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Congratulations to Green Day for having Dookie
being named the "Best Rock CD of the Year" by Time magazine (Dec 26, 1994
issue). "Do you like playing your car stereo so loud that
cars in back of you flash their lights? If the answer is yes, then Green Day is for you. If no, then here's a gift you can give to your younger
relations that will make them all think you're incredibly cool. While the
raucous, cathartic songs of this Berkeley-based punk band are adolescent
and snotty, they're always laughing with you, not at you... or are they?"
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Rolling Stone magazine featured Green Day
as a prominent band for the future in its Generation Next special issue.
Then (January 26, 1995 cover story), Rolling Stone readers named:
Green Day - Best New Band of 1994
Green Day - Critics' Choice Best New Band
of 1994
Dookie - Best Album of 1994
Dookie - Best Album Cover of 1994
Billie Joe Armstrong - Best New Male Singer
Billie Joe Armstrong - Critics' Choice
Second Best New Male Singer
Green Day - Third Best Artist of 1994
Green Day - Fourth Best Band of 1994
Basket Case - Fifth Best Single of 1994
Basket Case - Fifth Best Video of 1994
Longview - Critics' Choice Third Best
Single of 1994
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Spin magazine's readers poll (January, 1995)
gives Green Day a number of accolades:
Best New Band or Artist
#5 single of the year (Longview)
#2 artist Spin should be covering
#1 artist predicted to "make it big in
'95".
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Green Day log in KROQ's #1 single of 1994
(Longview), as well as scoring #8 with Basket Case, 17 with Welcome to Paradise, and 34 with When I Come Around.
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An article in Entertainment Weekly declared
Green Day to be "1994's hottest band", and that 1994 has been the "Year
of Green Day" in an excellent cover story. EW also named them #3 rookie of the year in their Best of 1994 issue.
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