American Idiot
by Green Day
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American Idiot is ranked as the best album by Green Day.
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American Idiot track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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American Idiot rankings summary
Overall rank: 147th | 2000s rank: 22nd | 2004 rank: 3rd Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 | Skerns | Top 89 Music Albums of 2004 | 56/89 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 80 Music Albums of 2004 | 55/80 | 2 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 2/100 | 20 |
| 2026 |  Superunknown | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 71/100 | 28 |
| 2026 | AlienCinema | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 38/100 | 63 |
| 2026 |  RasmV | My 100 most listened albums in 2025 | 29/100 | - |
| 2026 | mikeyx | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 29/40 | 28 |
| 2026 |  SomethingSpecial | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 24/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 30 Music Albums of 2004 | 1/30 | 5 |
| 2026 | Museman | Top 14 Music Albums of 2004 | 4/14 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 1,043 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 9,164 | |||
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| ! | 10 minutes ago | JoshN125 | 161 | 78/100 |
| ! | 10/05/2026 19:03 | Siromynian | 1,786 | 74/100 |
| ! | 09/25/2026 14:05 |  Leonard | 6,629 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.8.
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junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/13/2012 16:13 | #40147 | TOP COMMENT
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junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/13/2012 16:13 | #40147 | TOP COMMENT
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Green Day should've stopped here. Go big, take yourselves too seriously, and reach for messages you've avoided before. It is a grand album, with some grand tracks, but convinced Green Day they were something they weren't - U2.
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SonicPhan630 06/04/2017 05:47 | #191956 | TOP COMMENT
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I feel like Green Day isn't treated fairly on this website. While I would agree that Dookie was the more influential album and it definitely shot Green Day into super-stardom, American Idiot is the better album musically. It has better lyrics, better hooks and melodies, and it features two songs that are both almost 10 minutes at length, but surprisingly don't seem overly long. That is a huge accomplishment for a punk band (or pop-punk... or alt-rock, or whatever you want to call Green Day since people can't seem to agree on what genre they are). This has very sophisticated writing and I applaud the band for how much they improved since they started.
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Connor 02/03/2013 21:26 | #63834 | TOP COMMENT
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This was the first CD I ever bought. got it when I was in 4th grade and absolutely loved it. Being in 12th grade and more musically experienced I can say that this album is OK. However I have fun remembering the times from my younger years listening to this album. From something as simple as singing Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams to the time I freaked my mom out because i used her eyeliner trying to look like billy Joe Armstrong. XD!
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vinnid127 TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/24/2013 22:47 | #74388 | TOP COMMENT
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ok so maybe it's not the white album, and maybe green day aren't the beatles, but it's a damn good album, especially for a band whose song's mostly only incorporate a four-chord power-pattern, but you have to give them credit for being so ambitious. good on them, so what it may not sound THAT much different from their previous albums but it's loads of fun and deserves to be remembered for it. everybody chill and stop being so anally pretentious about what a "good" album is, enjoy and expand with all kinds of music, start here :)
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Shiebs17 12/28/2017 00:31 | #204007 | TOP COMMENT
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This album was a big risk for Green Day after their underwhelming album Warning, yet rock and roll is a risk in itself. They hit hard with this hour and few minute long record with smashing singles and two 9 minute songs (Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming) that develop the plot of the triumphant rock opera.
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