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At the 51st Grammy Awards on February 8, 2009, Weezer won the Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video for “Pork and Beans”. The award was shared with director Mathew Cullen and producer Bernard Rahill.

The video, released May 23, 2008, assembled the era's defining internet figures around the band and became a time capsule of early online culture. It drew four million views in its first week and went on to surpass 34 million.

The single itself spent eleven consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. The Grammy came fifteen years after the band's formation, recognition earned in year fifteen of a career built on longevity rather than a single moment.

At the 12th MTV Video Music Awards, held September 7, 1995 at Radio City Music Hall, “Buddy Holly” won four of its five nominations, tying for the most awards of the night.

Directed by Spike Jonze, the video spliced the band into archival footage from Happy Days, staging a performance at Arnold's Drive-In. It was shot in a single day at Charlie Chaplin Studios in Hollywood.

Weezer's self-titled 1994 debut, the Blue Album, holds a 5× Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, five million certified units in the United States alone.

The certification arc is the story: Gold on December 1, 1994, Platinum on January 13, 1995, 2× Platinum on August 8, 1995, 3× Platinum on November 13, 1998, and 5× Platinum on October 2, 2024, thirty years after release.

No re-release or nostalgia cycle drove those milestones. Each certification was earned by new listeners finding the record through streaming, film placements, internet culture, and the band's continuous touring.

The Blue Album, released May 10, 1994 on DGC/Geffen Records, climbed the Billboard 200 to a #16 peak, an ascent powered by three Spike Jonze-directed singles: “Undone, The Sweater Song”, “Buddy Holly”, and “Say It Ain't So”.

Produced by Ric Ocasek of The Cars at Electric Lady Studios in New York, the record reached the top 20 with no prior single success and no radio prioritization, a chart position earned on songwriting.

In May 2026, the Library of Congress selected Weezer's 1994 debut for the National Recording Registry, the federal archive of recordings deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and preserved permanently as part of the nation's sound heritage. The Blue Album was among the top vote-getters in public nominations, entering a 25-recording class alongside Beyoncé's “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” and Taylor Swift's 1989.

The Registry does not measure sales. It measures whether a recording still matters. Thirty-two years after release, the federal government's answer was yes.