Editing Enema of the State (section)

==Release==
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By May 1999, the group was nearing platinum status for ''Dude Ranch'' and sales targets were higher for ''Enema of the State''. The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' ran a Sunday feature on the band two days prior to release, noting that "The musicians are sanguine about chances to repeat or exceed the sales of ''Dude Ranch'', noting the always-shifting sands of pop culture and that they've already done better than they'd ever anticipated."<ref name="lat">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-30-ca-42373-story.html |title=Psst . . . Blink-182 Is Growing Up |first=Steve |last=Hochman |date=May 30, 1999 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=July 28, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230082410/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/may/30/entertainment/ca-42373 |archive-date=December 30, 2014}}</ref> Momentum began to build when US radio stations received advance copies of ''Enema of the State''.<ref name=totalguitar1>{{cite magazine |last=Allsworth |first=Steve |date=May 30, 2006 |title=US Punk: Blink-182 |magazine=[[Total Guitar]] |pages=70–71 |publisher=[[Future Publishing]] |location=[[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], United Kingdom |issn=1355-5049}}</ref> MCA issued ''Enema of the State'' on June 1, and the release peaked at number nine on the U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref name="charts">{{cite web |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/cqgntg/backstreet-boys-hold-off-ja-rule-jennifer-lopez-on-chart |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709192436/https://www.mtv.com/news/cqgntg/backstreet-boys-hold-off-ja-rule-jennifer-lopez-on-chart |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 9, 2023 |title=Backstreet Boys Hold Off Ja Rule, Jennifer Lopez On Chart |publisher=MTV News |date=June 9, 1999 |access-date=June 1, 2010}}</ref><ref name="toypaj">{{cite magazine |author=''Billboard'' staff |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/blink-182-opens-at-no-1-sugar-ray-debuts-high-79358/ |title=Blink-182 Opens At No. 1, Sugar Ray Debuts High |date=June 2001 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=September 22, 2010}}</ref> The album chart was gripped by the Backstreet Boys' ''[[Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)|Millennium]]'', but ''Enema of the State'' still managed to move 109,000 units that week.<ref name="charts"/> The band was supporting [[Lagwagon]] in Europe when MCA executives phoned the trio about rising record sales. [[Joey Cape]], frontman of Lagwagon, remarked that "They were selling, like, 90,000 records a day [...] I was saying things like, 'What are you doing here? Go home! Why do you want to be on tour with Lagwagon right now?"<ref name="onenineninefour">{{cite AV media |people=[[Jai Al-Attas|Al-Attas, Jai]] (Director) |year=2009 |title=[[One Nine Nine Four]] |medium=Motion picture |location=US |publisher=Robot Academy}}</ref> At a show shortly following the release of the album, DeLonge was approached by [[Noodles (musician)|Noodles]] from [[The Offspring]] to congratulate him. "He looks at me right in the eyes and he goes, 'You're next,'" remembered DeLonge, who blushed and shook off the compliment.<ref name="onenineninefour"/>

The major-label debut sold strongly and nearly four times as fast as ''Dude Ranch'',<ref name="secret"/> and shipped gold to stores, unlike its predecessor, which took seven months to achieve that certification.<ref name="p74" /><ref name="p96" /> ''Enema of the State'' went platinum in October 1999 and went triple platinum in January 2000; in February 2001, the album was certified five times platinum in the United States by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]].<ref name="RIAA"/> The record performed well in international markets as well. ''Enema of the State'' went quadruple platinum in Canada and triple platinum in Australia.<ref name="p90"/> It peaked at number seven on the [[Canadian Albums Chart]], but peaked the highest worldwide on the [[New Zealand Albums Chart]] (number two), where it was certified double platinum.<ref name="p90"/> It was also certified double platinum in Italy, platinum in the United Kingdom, and gold in six other territories (Austria, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, and Switzerland).<ref name="p90"/> In Europe, the album sold over one million copies.<ref name="europe"/> To further promote ''Enema of the State'', the trio made a [[cameo appearance]] in ''American Pie'', a [[teen film|teen comedy]] released several weeks following the album release.<ref name="americanpie"/> Hoppus, DeLonge and Barker appear in a scene in which they are interrupted rehearsing to see a [[webcast]] on a computer. Music from ''Enema of the State'' was also used in the film and on its soundtrack. The cameo appearance was well-received, with ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''{{'s}} Nitsuh Abebe commending the common sensibility and humor between the two: "green grass, sun, swimming pools, teen boys obsessed with and mildly terrified by sex, jokes about having sex with things that are not other humans, and a healthy side of toilet-oriented gags."<ref name="newyork"/>

As of 2016, ''Enema of the State'' remains the highest seller in the band's catalogue, moving 4.6 million units to date in the U.S., according to [[Nielsen SoundScan]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lynch |first=Joe |date=July 13, 2016 |title=Here Are Blink-182's Studio Albums From Highest to Lowest on the Billboard 200 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/blink-182-studio-albums-billboard-200-graphic/ |access-date=May 6, 2023 |archive-date=May 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506025822/https://www.billboard.com/pro/blink-182-studio-albums-billboard-200-graphic/ |url-status=live}}</ref>