Claim: American Idiot includes the successful single "Holiday."

`` Holiday '' is a song by American punk rock band Green Day . It was released as the third single from the group 's seventh studio album American Idiot . The song is in the key of F minor . Though the song is a prelude to `` Boulevard of Broken Dreams '' , `` Holiday '' was released as a single later on , in the spring of 2005 . The song achieved considerable popularity across the world and performed moderately well on the charts . In the US , it reached number nineteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts . It debuted at number eleven in the UK and at number twenty-one in Canada . The song has been featured in the 2006 comedy film , Accepted . The NHL 's Vancouver Canucks once used it as their goal song . The song also appeared in an episode of CSI : NY .