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Alternative Rock (Modern Rock) band from Buffalo, New York, Pennsylvania (USA).

Goo Goo Dolls was formed by guitarist and vocalist John Rzeznik, bassist and vocalist Robby Takac, and drummer George Tutuska. Mike Malinin was the band’s drummer from January 1995 until December 2013. Although renowned for their commercially successful 1998 single Iris, they have had several other notable and popular singles including Name from 1995’s A Boy Named Goo, Broadway, Black Balloon and Slide from 1998’s Dizzy Up The Girl, which produced a total of five successful singles, and Here Is Gone, Sympathy and Big Machine from 2002’s Gutterflower. The Goo Goo Dolls have had 14 top ten singles on various charts, and have sold more than 10 million albums worldwide.

In October 2012, Iris was ranked #1 on Billboard’s Top 100 Pop Songs 1992–2012 chart, which also featured Goo Goo Dolls hits Slide, ranking at #9, and Name at #24. Their biggest hit, Iris, from the City of Angels soundtrack (and later Dizzy up the Girl), spent nearly 12 straight months on the Billboard charts and held the number one position on the Hot 100 Airplay chart for 18 weeks. The first single from their 2010 album, Something for the Rest of Us, Home, extended the band’s record to 14 top ten hits at the hot AC radio format (more than any other artist in the history of that format).The band’s newest album, Magnetic, was released on June 11, 2013.