'Summer has come and passed…'
According to Rolling Stone, Green Day make a bunch of extra money around the September and October months, due to – you guessed it – the band's American Idiot hit, Wake Me Up When September Ends.
While the beginning of October also brings with it a shitload of annoying 'time to wake that guy from Green Day up' memes (with frontman Billie Joe Armstrong responding to the comments in a 2016 interview with Vulture: "Have fun, get a life at the same time…"), it does generate one positive at the very least: more cash.
In figures provided by YouTube, Wake Me Up When September Ends' hits more than doubled this year: views went from around 50,000 each day to to 101,313 on September 1, 103,669 on September 30 and 107,058 on October 1.
Check out their stats below:
More hits = more money, with Global Music Head at YouTube Lyor Cohen revealing last year that the company pay about $0.003 per stream in royalties. That means Green Day are making a decent amount (like, hundreds of dollars) on those dates in September and October. Not too shabby.
Let's give it some extra views now, because what a song/video:
Once you're done watching that, might as well stick the whole of American Idiot on, eh?
