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Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third studio album by Limp Bizkit, it was released on October 17, 2000, by Interscope Records and Flip Records.

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water went to number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 1,050,000 copies in its first week of being released, with 400,000 of those copies being sold in the album's first day of being released. In its second week of being released, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water sold 392,000 copies.Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water was at number 1 on the Billboard 200 for two weeks.Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water also went to number 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart. Two months after its release date, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water was certified 4x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Almost seven months after its release date, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA. In April 2002, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water was certified 6x platinum by the RIAA.Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water also was certified 6x platinum by Music Canada in October 2001.

The first part of the title is a scatological reference to the appearance of the human anus (Chocolate Starfish). However, Hot Dog Flavored Water is an inside joke started by Wes Borland at a truck stop while the band was on tour, where Borland saw bottles of Crystal Geyser flavored water, and made a joke about having meat or hot dog flavors.

Durst himself refers to the album name in three songs. First, "Livin' It Up", where he declares that "The chocolate starfish is my man Fred Durst" (Wes Borland has stated in an interview when questioned on the naming of the album that "Fred calls himself Chocolate Starfish, because people call him an asshole all the time"), "Hot Dog", where he tells his detractors to "Kiss my starfish, my chocolate starfish," and "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" where he mentions "Chocolate Starfish" in the introduction.

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