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became a top forty airplay hit, arguably the first ever American punk song to do so; just one month
later, The Offspring's "Come Out and Play" followed suit. MTV and radio stations such as Los
Angeles' KROQ-FM played a major role in these bands' crossover success, though NOFX refused
to let MTV air its videos.[324] Smash went on to sell over twelve million copies worldwide,
becoming the best-selling independent-label album of all time.[325]
Following the lead of Boston's Mighty Mighty Bosstones and two California bands, Berkeley's
Operation Ivy and Long Beach's Sublime, ska punk and ska-core became widely popular in the
mid-1990s. By 1996, genre acts such as Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake were being signed to
major labels. The original 2 Tone bands had emerged amid punk rock's second wave, but their
music was much closer to its Jamaican roots--"ska at 78 rpm".[326] Ska punk bands in the third
wave of ska created a true musical fusion between the genres. ..