Far Out Magazine

What is the best-selling punk album of all time?

Let’s address the inherent contradiction in the title right away. “Actually,” says the most insufferable music fan you know, pushing their glasses up so high they practically pierce their brain, “the biggest-selling punk album of all time can’t be punk at all!” Wrong. Yes, it can. Of course it can. The notion that a movement as complex and multifaceted as punk can be reduced to “big = bad” is so reductive it becomes self-defeating.