Nice Guys Finish Last

This article is about the Green Day song. For the quotation, see Leo Durocher. For the Cobra Starship song, see Hot Mess.
"Nice Guys Finish Last"
Single by Green Day
from the album Nimrod and Varsity Blues soundtrack
ReleasedMarch 23, 1999
Recorded1997
StudioConway (Hollywood, California)
Genre
Punk rock[1][2]
Length2:48
LabelReprise
Composer(s)Green Day
Lyricist(s)Billie Joe Armstrong
Producer(s)
Green Day singles chronology
"Redundant"
(1998) 		"Nice Guys Finish Last"
(1999) 		"Minority"
(2000)
Music video
"Nice Guys Finish Last" on YouTube

"Nice Guys Finish Last" is a song by American rock band Green Day. It is the opening track and the fourth and final single released from their fifth studio album, Nimrod (1997). The use of the song in the movie Varsity Blues helped propel it to hit status and earned it a nomination for an MTV Movie Award for best song from a movie in 1999.[3][4]

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  2. ^ Travers, Paul (14 May 2020). "Green Day's 15 best music videos, ranked in order of greatness". Kerrang!. Archived from the original on January 11, 2023. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
  3. ^ "MTV Movie + TV Awards (1999)". IMDb. Archived from the original on January 23, 2022. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  4. ^ "Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last". Desitara. Archived from the original on 2012-07-31. Retrieved 2013-04-24.