Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy is an American pop punk band formed in 2001 that consists of vocalist, guitarist and composer Patrick Stump, bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band has released five studio albums, three extended plays (EPs), sixteen singles and accompanying music videos, one live DVD, and one greatest hits album. They have sold over 7.5 million albums worldwide.

In 2002, Fall Out Boy debuted with a self-released demo and followed it up with Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy, a split EP featuring Project Rocket. The group released a mini-LP, Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend, in 2003.

Fall Out Boy released their first full-length album, Take This to Your Grave, in 2003. They released the acoustic EP with DVD My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue on Fueled by Ramen, in 2004. It debuted at No. 153 on the U.S. Billboard 200, the group's first such entry on the chart.

In mid-2005, Fall Out Boy released their major label debut, From Under the Cork Tree, and it debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200. From Under the Cork Tree spent 19 weeks in the top 20 out of a total of 77 chart weeks. The album's lead single, "Sugar, We're Goin Down" peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent five weeks in the top 10 and 20 weeks in the top 20, logging a total of 42 weeks on the chart before it was retired. "Sugar, We're Goin Down" has sold over two million copies in the US and was certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

The hit single, along with various awards such as MTV2's Video Music Award, created huge a interest in the band, helping From Under the Cork Tree sell over 2.5 million copies in the U.S. alone and over three million worldwide, making it the band's best selling album and being certified Double Platinum for the shipping of two million copies.

The second single from the album, "Dance, Dance" was also released to commercial success, charting at No. 9 in the US and No. 8 in the UK, a second top 10 hit single for the band in both regions. In the US it spent 14 weeks in the top 20 out of a total of 30 weeks, being certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Fall Out Boy's third album, Infinity on High, was released in early 2007. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as well as No. 1 on other Billboard charts. Three singles charted on the Billboard Hot 100, led by the Platinum certified first single "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" at No. 2, followed by second single "Thnks fr th Mmrs" at No. 11, the latter going on to sell over two-million copies in the US.

Fall Out Boy released Live in Phoenix in 2008, a live CD/DVD of a recording of a concert on their 2007 Honda Civic Tour. The latest album, Folie à Deux, was released in December 2008, selling 150,000 copies in its first week to place at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Gold by RIAA, spawning the Platinum single, "I Don't Care".

Fall Out Boy released their first greatest hits album, Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits in November 2009 shortly before announcing an indefinite hiatus