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Green Day Reaches A Rocking Milestone For The First Time

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Green Day's Greatest Hits: God’s Favorite Band becomes the pop-punk favorite's first release to ... [+] spend 150 weeks on the U.K.'s main albums chart. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 02: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) (L-R) Mike Dirnt, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Tré Cool of Green Day attend the 67th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

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Pop-punk bands aren’t known for their longevity in the music industry. Even some of the ones that rise highest and score multiple hits don’t usually continue working for nearly as long as Green Day has.

The superstars often succeed on charts all around the world, thanks both to a continued desire to create excellent work, as well as a catalog flush with some of the most successful rock tunes of the past several decades. Green Day maintains a consistent presence on the U.K. albums charts thanks to one compilation in particular.

Greatest Hits: God’s Favorite Band can almost always be found on at least one list in the country, and usually several, as is the case this time around. It’s that hits-packed collection that reaches a special milestone this week in the United Kingdom as fans continue to consume the collection in any way they can--especially on streaming platforms.

Green Day’s Greatest Hits has now lived on the Official Albums chart for 300 weeks. That means that the compilation has ranked among the 100 most-consumed full-lengths and EPs in the United Kingdom for at least 300 frames since it launched.

Greatest Hits is far and away Green Day’s longest album charting title on the main albums list across the pond. Only two other offerings from the pop-punk outfit have racked up triple digit stays, and neither has come close to the 300-frame mark.

American Idiot holds as Green Day’s second-longest-charting album in the U.K., with 128 weeks on the competitive tally. Dookie, the project that started it all for the rockers, is up to 114 stays somewhere on the 100-space list.

Despite the fact that it has lived on the U.K. albums chart for longer than both of the band’s two next two longest-charting titles combined, Green Day’s Greatest Hits is not one of the higher-rising wins for the band. The compilation debuted at No. 22 in November 2017, and that turned out to be its all-time peak.

Throughout the years the musicians have been putting out music, Green Day has collected 10 top 10 albums in the U.K.. Half of those have hit No. 1, including Saviors, the latest from the rockers that dropped about a year ago.

Green Day’s Greatest Hits is likely selling well, at least for a rock compilation, but it’s streaming activity that is keeping the title alive on the charts in the U.K. In addition to the main list of the most-consumed projects throughout the nation, Greatest Hits also appears on just one other tally, the Official Album Streaming chart. It dips several spaces from No. 48 to No. 53 on that roster, where it has previously climbed to No. 26 and has now spent an incredible 372 weeks.

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