Song · Green Day
“Waiting” by Green Day
From the album Warning: (2000)
“Waiting” by Green Day appears on 11 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2001 and 2020. It was first released in 2000 on the album Warning:. Its best result is #26 on The End Top 107 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #62 alternative song of 2001 and #7,432 alternative song of all time.
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"Waiting" comes from Warning, the sixth Green Day album, released in 2000 and produced by the band themselves, and it was the third single to go out to radio from it. Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the words and plays guitar and sings, Mike Dirnt adds bass and harmonies, and Tré Cool keeps a jaunty, marching beat; Jack Joseph Puig mixed it.
It's a sunny, hopeful, handclap-ready pop song whose melody drew comparisons to Petula Clark's "Downtown", and NME reckoned it could sit happily next to their best. Marc Webb's video stages a house party where the guests move in slow motion around the band, freeze in place, then snap back to full speed. On the Modern Rock chart it got to 26.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 59 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 30 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 87 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 41 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
| 2001 | 41 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2001 | 93 |
| 2001 | 26 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 44 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 56 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 29 | WBCN Boston, MA | WBCN Top 41 Songs of 2001 | 40 |
| 2001 | 79 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 103 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 107 Songs of the Millennium (December 2006) | 107 |
| 2020 | 478 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
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