What was the lead single from Green Day's Warning album?
Answer
Minority
Answer
Minority
What was the lead single from Green Day’s Warning album? The lead single was “Minority.”
“Minority” was issued as the lead single from Warning in 2000. It was serviced to U.S. rock radio on August 29, 2000, before receiving a commercial release in September, ahead of the album’s October 3 release.
The song captures Warning’s more political and folk-influenced side. Billie Joe Armstrong wrote it around the 2000 U.S. presidential election, expressing a desire to remain independent-minded rather than follow a political majority. Its acoustic-leaning sound helped signal the album’s broader departure from Green Day’s earlier punk-heavy style.
Listeners sometimes confuse “Minority” with “Warning,” the album’s title track, because both are prominent and were released as singles. “Minority,” however, was the first single and became one of the era’s strongest alternative-radio successes, spending five consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026