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Author: Kjersti Egerdahl

Green Day's 1992 album, Kerplunk!, cost just $2,000 to record, but went on to be certified platinum in 2003. Their 2009 album, 21st Century Breakdown, debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, selling 215,000 copies in only three days. Just what indefinable something vaults a band to this kind of superstardom?