Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy is a four-piece pop punk band from the suburbs of Chicago, that formed in 2001. They started to achieve notable success with 2003's "Take This to Your Grave,"(Fueled By Ramen) with singles such as "Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)" receiving airplay on FUSE and MTVU. They have also has success with A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me and Dance,... More >

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Fall Out Boy is a four-piece pop punk band from the suburbs of Chicago, that formed in 2001. They started to achieve notable success with 2003's "Take This to Your Grave,"(Fueled By Ramen) with singles such as "Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)" receiving airplay on FUSE and MTVU. They have also has success with A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me and Dance, Dance. The band signed to Island Records in 2003, and in May of 2005 released their major label debut "From Under The Cork Tree,"(Island) which debuted on the Billboard charts at #9, selling over 70,000 copies in its first week.

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Fall Out Boy is a band formed in 2001 in Glenview, Illinois after good friends Joe Trohman and Pete Wentz met high schooler Patrick Stump. Stump originally auditioned as a drummer, but soon became the lead singer. The following year, the band debuted with a self-released demo and followed it up with the May 28, 2002 release of Split EP, which featured Project Rocket, on Uprising Records. The group released a mini-LP, Evening Out With Your Girlfriend, also on Uprising Records, in 2003. 2003-2004: Independent success

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Fall Out Boy is an American pop punk band from Wilmette, Illinois, formed in 2001. The band consists of vocalist/guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The members originally played in local underground hardcore bands before forming Fall Out Boy. With Pete Wentz as the band's primary lyricist and Patrick Stump as the primary composer, Fall Out Boy broke out of the underground music scene and reached mainstream success with their major label album From Under the Cork Tree. Released in 2005 as the follow-up to their 2003 debut Take This to Your Grave, the album won several awards and achieved double platinum status after selling more than 2.7 million albums in the United States, spawning top ten singles "Sugar, We're Goin Down" and "Dance, Dance".

In 2007, Fall Out Boy released their third album Infinity on High, to major chart success, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 and selling 260,000 copies in its first week, with top five chartings worldwide. It contained the hits "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" and "Thnks fr th Mmrs". The group released Folie à Deux in 2008 and further evolved their musical palette. The group announced an indefinite hiatus in late 2009, stating that they have not broken up, rather that the members are taking a rest and engaging in various side projects. Stump released a solo album called Soul Punk in 2011, Wentz formed Black Cards, while Hurley and Trohman formed The Damned Things and then respectively moved onto With Knives and Enabler. Fall Out Boy was ranked the 93rd Best Artist of the 2000-10 decade by Billboard. On February 4, 2013, Fall Out Boy announced their comeback with a new album, Save Rock and Roll, as well as a tour and a new single.

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