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By early 1998, the punk revival had commercially stalled, but not for long.
That November, The Offspring's Americana on the major Columbia label debuted at number two on the album chart.
A bootleg MP3 of its first single, " Pretty Fly ( For a White Guy )", made it on to the Internet and was downloaded a record 22 million times — illegally.
The following year, Enema of the State, the first major-label release by pop punk band Blink-182, reached the top ten and sold four million copies in under twelve months.
In January 2000, the album's second single, " All the Small Things ", hit the sixth spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
While they were viewed as Green Day " acolytes ", critics also found teen pop acts like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and ' N Sync suitable points of comparison for Blink-182's sound and market niche.
The band's Take Off Your Pants and Jacket ( 2001 ) and Blink-182 ( 2003 ) respectively rose to numbers one and three on the album chart.
In November 2003, The New Yorker described how the " giddily puerile " act had " become massively popular with the mainstream audience, a demographic formerly considered untouchable by punk-rock purists.

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