From what I've seen it was about around I'd say 1999 to 2007 or 08. The popularity starting off with Green Day's Basket Case in 1994 but really becoming mainstream in 1999 with Blink-182's Enema of The State. And bands like Simple Plan and Good Charlotte and Green Day making a return in the early to mid 2000s.

Punk started as we know it today in the mid 1970s especially with the Sex Pistols (in the UK), and more recently it has declined. Back in the early 1960s The Beatles were describe as punk, originally punk was a description of a new form of music that is away from the mainstream.

Punk started as we know it today in the mid 1970s especially with the Sex Pistols (in the UK), and more recently it has declined. Back in the early 1960s The Beatles were describe as punk, originally punk was a description of a new form of music that is away from the mainstream.


I mean punk in like the stuff the late 90s early 2000s were known for, not really in general.

I remember 2004 being a very pop punk year. Emo started to be favored over pop-punk throughout 2005 (I remember Fallout Boy really started to get popular in summer 2005) and completely took over in 2006 when MCR and PATD started getting really popular. I say this as someone who went to high school from 2004 to 2008.

I’d say 1996-2008. It started around late 1995 tbh.. The mid 90’s already had pop punk becoming more forefront with artists like Green day and Weezers, although I’d say it started to become more culturally significant in late 1996/1997 when No doubt hit the scenes with “I’m Just A Girl”... by 1997 you you Third eye blind’s “Semi Charmed life” and Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping” and it just kept rising from there. By 1999 pop punk was definitely here. I miss those times of good pop punk :)

Green Day were already playing at Woodstock 94. Pop punk was full popularity throughout the latter part of 1994

It was entering its watered down phase in 1999-2001

Super pop phase from 2002-2004.

1994-1995 to 2004-2005/ Technically and more so 2003-04.

Green Day were already playing at Woodstock 94. Pop punk was full popularity throughout the latter part of 1994

It was entering its watered down phase in 1999-2001

Super pop phase from 2002-2004.

1994-1995 to 2004-2005/ Technically and more so 2003-04.


I have to disagree. In 1994 pop punk was not  fully popular. It was pretty underground. Green day and Weezers were like one of the only bands at the time that got the recognition they deserved. In 1994 grunge was still the most popular genre of rock. It wasn’t until the mid late 90’s when it became more popularized. It definitely was not watered down in 1999-2001. Blink 182, sum 41, fountains of wayne, bowling for soup, paramore, Avril Lavigne, etc. comes to mind when talking about the 1999-2002 period.

I have to disagree. In 1994 pop punk was not  fully popular. It was pretty underground. Green day and Weezers were like one of the only bands at the time that got the recognition they deserved. In 1994 grunge was still the most popular genre of rock. It wasn’t until the mid late 90’s when it became more popularized. It definitely was not watered down in 1999-2001. Blink 182, sum 41, fountains of wayne, bowling for soup, paramore, Avril Lavigne, etc. comes to mind when talking about the 1999-2002 period.

Green Day was pretty popular and were at Woodstock 94 and regularly played on MTV and radio during 1994.


Along with Nofx, Offspring and a number of other punk revival/pop punk etc bands. It was mainstream.

It’s not one or the other. Grunge was still popular and visible there but other genres were growing and slowly overtaking it throughout 94-97. It certainly wasn’t as big as it was in the earlier 90s.

I remember pop punk being big through this entire time, 1998 included.

Mainstream Pop punk in 1999-2001 more often than not sounded watered down compared to the more organic sounds of the mid 90s and really old school late 80s pop punk.

Doesn’t mean it was bad or whatever. Just describing it. 

Check out the documentary called One Nine Nine Four about the punk/pop punk explosion into the mainstream. 

All the big pop punk bands from that era are interviewed here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_2Vc7pO6gr

Yes Green day was popular in 1994 but it was mainly due to their evolutionary revived sound of pop rock/punk that was reminiscent of the late 70’s. Pop punk wasn’t much of a popularized genre in the 90’s, sure pop punk and grunge coexisted but grunge/ post grunge was more mainstream at the time. Same with metal. Green Day and Offspring is what really put pop punk on the map, soon after no doubt became more recognized rather than underground as was most pop punk in the early 90’s. If anything the mid 90’s- early 2000’s were the start of it’s revival in terms of mainstream recognition. By the mid 2000’s pop punk evolved into emo punk which led to the popularity fall out boy, my chemical romance, paramore , all time low, The academy is, All american rejects,etc. Hell the weezers were even seen as cool again.

Sure the start of its revival in the mid 90’s may have been less commercialized considering it was fresh and new at the time but that doesn’t mean it was watered down in the late 90’s-early 2000’s as the mainstream genres of the 2000’s happened to be pop punk and southern hip hop.

Also just finished the interview!! I loved it :)

1994-2005, or thereabouts. Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, and AI-era Green Day were the last pop-punk bands to make it big on the charts. I consider the emo scene of the Mid-Late 2000s to have been a separate sub-genre.