After nine years of slugging it out on the road, the Goo Goo Dolls are capping off their most commercially successful year with a string of high profile and festive gigs. The Buffalo, NY-based trio’s fifth album, “A Boy Named Goo” on Metal Blade/Warner Bros., was recently certified gold by the Recording Industry Assn. of America. Now the band is getting another chance at major exposure as a featured performer on the Billboard Music Awards.

The Goo Goo Dolls are scheduled to make their debut TV appearance Dec. 1 on “Late Show With David Letterman” and are one of the most sought-after bands for this year’s round of modern rock, album rock, and top 40 Christmas shows. Modern rockers KROQ Los Angeles, KEGE Minneapolis, and WPLY Philadelphia, and the modern rock-leaning top 40 WHTZ (Z100) New York are among the stations that landed the band, which will cap off the year with a New Year’s Eve show at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.