Know Your Enemy (Green Day song)

"Know Your Enemy"
Single by Green Day
from the album 21st Century Breakdown
B-side
  • "Lights Out"
  • "Hearts Collide"
ReleasedApril 16, 2009
RecordedSeptember 1, 2008
Genre
Length3:11
LabelReprise
Composer(s)Green Day
Lyricist(s)Billie Joe Armstrong
Producer(s)
Green Day singles chronology
"The Simpsons Theme"
(2007) 		"Know Your Enemy"
(2009) 		"21 Guns"
(2009)
Music video
"Know Your Enemy" on YouTube

"Know Your Enemy" is a protest song[4] by American rock band Green Day. It is the third track on their eighth album, 21st Century Breakdown, and it was released as the lead single through Reprise Records on April 16, 2009, and the group's first single since "Jesus of Suburbia", released 4 years earlier. Billboard described the song as being lyrically "just as politically charged as last time (on American Idiot)", having a "Modern Rock radio-ready chorus", whilst the song's producer Butch Vig "brings enough punk sheen for mass appeal."[1] It was the first, and one of only three songs, to top the Rock Songs, Alternative Songs and Mainstream Rock Tracks Billboard charts at the same time. "Know Your Enemy" has been certified Gold by the RIAA and has sold 798,000 copies as of August 2010.[needs update]

  1. ^ a b "Know Your Enemy". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 5, 2009. Retrieved May 16, 2009.
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  3. ^ Single Review: Green Day - Know Your Enemy Archived 2020-08-14 at the Wayback Machine : Female First
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