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Grammy® Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day will release Greatest Hits: Gods Favorite Band on 17th November. The playlist includes 20 hits spanning the bands prolific 21 years as a band, plus a brand new song called Back In The USA and a new duet with award-winning Country Music superstar Miranda Lambert on Ordinary World. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong previously collaborated with Lambert at the 56th annual Grammy® Awards in 2014 for a live duet in tribute of the late Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers.

On 22nd March, God miraculously came down to the Ed Sullivan Theatre to introduce Green Day as Gods Favorite Band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. When God speaks people listen, and he granted Green Day the title: Greatest Hits: Gods Favorite Band. The collection chronicles the sonic journey of one of the most essential and dynamic rock bands in recent history. Formed in 1986 in Berkeley, CA, Green Day achieved breakout success with 1994s Dookie which has sold over 10 million copies to date in the U.S. alone. Widely credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock, Green Day would go on to release Insomniac (1995), Nimrod (1997), and Warning (2000). In 2004, Green Day released the rock opera American Idiot which captured the nations attention and sold more than six million copies in the U.S. Mojo declared Its exhilarating stuff, the kind of record that sets new parameters as to what is possible from a punk rocknroll band in the 21st century. In 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway. The band went on to release the critically acclaimed 21st Century Breakdown (2009) and the album trilogy Green Day ¡Uno!, Green Day ¡Dos!, and Green Day ¡Tré (2012).

Green Day is one of the worlds best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. The group has won five Grammy Awards. On April 18, 2015, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a part of the 2015 class in what was their first year of eligibility for induction. Green Days 12th studio album Revolution Radio was released on 7th October, 2016 and debuted at No. 1 on the UK Official Album Chart. Upon its release, People proclaimed: The punk vets still have a tattooed finger on the national pulse.