won Grammy for Best Rock Album

American Idiot won the 2005 Grammy for Best Rock Album and was nominated in six other categories, including Album of the Year . The album helped Green Day win seven of the eight awards it was nominated for at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards ; the “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” video won six of those awards. A year later, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” won Grammy Award for Record of the Year . In 2009, Kerrang! named American Idiot the best album of the decade, NME ranked it number 60 in a similar list, and Rolling Stone ranked it 22nd. Rolling Stone also listed “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “American Idiot” among the 100 best songs of the 2000s, at number 65 and 47, respectively. In 2005, the album ranked 420 in Rock Hard magazine’s book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time . In 2012, the album was ranked number 225 on Rolling Stone ‘ s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time .