Wake Me Up When September Ends

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single song

"Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a melancholic rock ballad by Green Day that reflects themes of loss and remembrance and became one of the band's most commercially successful and recognizable songs.

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Label Occurrences
Wake Me Up When September Ends canonical 4
Wake Me Up When September Ends (song) 1
Wake me up when September ends 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf single ⓘ
song ⓘ
album American Idiot ⓘ
artist Green Day ⓘ
chartPositionAustralianARIA 13 ⓘ
chartPositionUKSinglesChart 8 ⓘ
chartPositionUSBillboardHot100 6 ⓘ
composer Billie Joe Armstrong ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
genre alternative rock ⓘ
pop punk ballad ⓘ
rock ballad ⓘ
hasChorusLyric Wake Me Up When September Ends self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Wake me up when September ends
hasMusicVideo true ⓘ
includedInTour American Idiot World Tour ⓘ
inspiredBy death of Billie Joe Armstrong's father ⓘ
instrumentation acoustic guitar ⓘ
bass guitar ⓘ
drums ⓘ
electric guitar ⓘ
isOneOf Green Day's most commercially successful songs ⓘ
Green Day's most recognizable songs ⓘ
language English ⓘ
lyricalMood somber ⓘ
lyricist Billie Joe Armstrong ⓘ
memberOf American Idiot ⓘ
musicVideoDirector Samuel Bayer ⓘ
musicVideoFeature Evan Rachel Wood ⓘ
Jamie Bell ⓘ
musicVideoTheme Iraq War ⓘ
notableUsage internet memes related to the month of September ⓘ
memorial events ⓘ
partOf American Idiot ⓘ
surface form: American Idiot (album)
performer Billie Joe Armstrong ⓘ
Green Day ⓘ
Mike Dirnt ⓘ
Tré Cool ⓘ
producer Green Day ⓘ
Rob Cavallo ⓘ
recordLabel Reprise Records ⓘ
releaseYear 2005 ⓘ
tempo slow ⓘ
theme death of a parent ⓘ
grief ⓘ
loss ⓘ
remembrance ⓘ
trackNumber 11 ⓘ
vocalStyle melancholic ⓘ
writer Billie Joe Armstrong ⓘ

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Green Day → hasHitSingle → Wake Me Up When September Ends ⓘ
American Idiot → hasPart → Wake Me Up When September Ends ⓘ
Holiday → followedBy → Wake Me Up When September Ends ⓘ
Wake Me Up When September Ends → hasChorusLyric → Wake Me Up When September Ends self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Wake me up when September ends
Holiday (song) → nextSingle → Wake Me Up When September Ends ⓘ
this entity surface form: Wake Me Up When September Ends (song)
Letterbomb → precedesInTrackList → Wake Me Up When September Ends ⓘ