The Goo Goo Dolls are an American rock band formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, by guitarist and vocalist John Rzeznik and bassist and vocalist Robby Takac.

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Since the end of 1994, Mike Malinin has been the band's drummer, a position previously held by George Tutuska. 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, an album which produced 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 ten 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. The Goo Goo Dolls are the only musicians to have three songs chart on the list. Their biggest hit, «Iris», from the City of Angels soundtrack, 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 next album, Magnetic, is set for release on May 7, 2013.
During an interview with UpVenue on February 16, 2011, Rzeznik confirmed that he was writing new material for a new album: «I've actually been experimenting, in this last week, while we've been out on this tour, just writing lyrics and then figuring out the melodic structures," said Rzeznik. «We can't wait another four years to put another album out; that's just a ridiculous waste of time.«

On May 23, 2011, it was announced that the band had recorded a song for the 2011 film.