Green Day — Holiday

Green Day's Super Bowl LX performance is the reason Holiday is tracking across 142 country and platform charts today. The band played the song — alongside "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "American Idiot" — during the opening ceremony on February 8, 2026, a set that, per Wikipedia, omitted the track's overtly political references while preserving its anthemic structure. The visibility of a Super Bowl slot tends to drive catalog streaming for weeks afterward, and American Idiot's most confrontational single is well-positioned to benefit: it was the third single from an album that sold over 14 million copies worldwide and became a Broadway musical. As an anti-war protest song built around a three-chord punch and Armstrong's snarled delivery, it has always translated better to arenas than radio. The Reddit thread following the anniversary shows suggests a generation discovering the record fresh. Three months on from the halftime slot, the streaming tail is still running.