Song · Good Charlotte
“Girls and Boys” by Good Charlotte
From the album The Young and the Hopeless (2002)
“Girls and Boys” by Good Charlotte appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations in 2003. It was first released in 2002 on the album The Young and the Hopeless. Its best result is #19 on the WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #98 alternative song of 2003.
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"Girls & Boys" was the third single from Good Charlotte's second album, The Young and the Hopeless, reaching Europe in the spring of 2003 before landing in America and Australia later that year. Benji and Joel Madden wrote it, and Eric Valentine produced, engineered and mixed it into a sugar rush of pop-punk: bratty, bouncy and built for a singalong.
The video is the fun part, shot in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie, with a cast of pensioners got up as hardcore punk kids while the band hang out among them, Benji handing out massages and Joel dancing with ladies in tracksuits. It climbed to 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 and six in the UK, where it was certified silver in 2018.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 74 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2003 | 107 |
| 2003 | 19 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
| 2003 | 36 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
| 2003 | 50 | Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA | Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2003 | 105 |
| 2003 | 22 | 102.1 The Edge Dallas-Fort Worth, TX | KDGE Top 102 Songs of 2003 | 102 |
Also listed as: Girls And Boys.
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