Green Day Celebrate ‘Dookie’ Going Double-Diamond: ‘Thank You To Everyone Who Has Loved This Album’
Welcome to history, Green Day. The pop-punk trio celebrated a major career milestone this week when their breakthrough third studio album, 1994’s Dookie, was certified double-diamond. With that honorific, the group’s major label became just the 13th album ever to be RIAA certified for sales of more than 20 million units in the U.S., joining such iconic LPs as Michael Jackson’s Thriller, AC/DC’s Back in Black, Led Zeppelin IV, The Beatles, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Shania Twain’s Come On Over, among others.
The group were presented with the award by label Warner Records and their team at Crush mgmt at their sold-out show at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA last Saturday. In an Instagram post earlier this week, singer Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool proudly showed off their Diamond awards backstage at Sofi and thanked their die-hards for helping them make history.
“Thank you to everyone who has loved this album as much as we have over the past 30 years and to all of you who have made it possible to live out our dreams,” they wrote.
Green Day have been celebrating the 30th anniversary of Dookie — as well as the 20th anniversary of their beloved 2004 politi-punk concept album American Idiot — on their sold-out stadium-rocking Saviors Tour all summer. The explosive two hour-plus shows open with a 15-song run through such Dookie standards as “Longview,” “Welcome to Paradise,” “Basket Case” and “When I Come Around,” followed by a mini-set of other classics and a final blitz through Idiot favorites including “Holiday,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Jesus of Suburbia,” the title track and “Holiday,” among others.
The concerts, which include a Borsch Belt-style dance interlude from Cool, as well as a fly-over from a giant inflatable airplane amid copious pyro and other eye-popping effects, will run down to Australia in 2025 for a run of three March stadium shows with openers AFI.
Check out Green Day’s double-diamond celebration below.
Gil Kaufman
Billboard
