1999 was one of the biggest years for music that you can possibly imagine. At the top of Billboard charts, you could find nu-metal bands competing with boy bands, pop megastars, post-grunge acts like Creed, and a handful of pop-punk bands for chart supremacy. In one of the two biggest years for CD sales, it was basically the perfect time for a pop-punk band like Blink-182 to explode with their album Enema Of The State.
Certified 5x Platinum by the RIAA on its own, the record made Blink-182 into megastars. It inspired a plethora of other musicians to form their own bands as well. And now the Blink-182 megahit “All The Small Things”, one of the biggest pop-punk songs of all time, has reached a significant milestone on Spotify.
“All The Small Things”, arguably the catalyst for the band’s explosion in 1999, has now reached a staggering one BILLION streams on Spotify. For context on how big this is, Green Day – usually considered the most popular pop-punk band in modern history – doesn’t have one (even though “Basket Case” is close at around 970 million streams). Fall Out Boy has one, but it’s “Centuries” – not really a pop-punk song. Jimmy Eat World, Sum 41, and New Found Glory don’t have one either (though they’re all not far behind). All of this is to say that Blink-182 remains basically as popular now as they were during their 1999-2003 peak, especially among younger listeners (who are more likely to utilize streaming services). The song, which reached as high as #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, is also far and away Blink-182’s most successful track.
