Fall Out Boy are on course to finally end Taylor Swift's nine non-consecutive week long run on the top of the Billboard Top 200, On the week that Taylor's ustoppable pop gem 1989 soared past the 4 million sales mark in America alone, ironically the record-breaking album looks likely to drop to number two as punk rockers Fall Out Boy return with an almighty start with their new album American Beauty/American Psycho.
The band, who returned to the spotlight in 2013 after splitting in 2010, are heading for a strong opening week with sales expected to reach 175 – 200k. Hits Daily Double reports that the band. Consisting of Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley, have shifted over 100,000 copies of their sixth studio album on pre-orders alone.
“Initial reactions to Fall Out Boy's new album have been phenomenal,” said Island President David Massey. “Given the platinum success of the album's first hit single, ‘;Centuries,' with nearly 30 million YouTube views to date, back-to-back #1 songs on iTunes and extraordinary preorders, we are off to a very exciting start with American Beauty/American Psycho. We fully expect to be working this album throughout the year with multiple hit singles.”
Should the boys debut at number one on the Billboard Top 200, the feat will mark that group's third chart-topping album following 2007's Infinity On High and their 2013 comeback Save Rock and Roll, the latter spawning the hit singles My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up) and My Songs.
Fall Out Boy on course to knock Taylor Swift from Billboard Top 200 (Adriana M. Barraza/WENN)
This week Fall Out Boy played a rare intimate gig at the Islington Assembly Hall in support of their new record, which has been pushed forward for release ahead of schedule after unfinished copies of the album surfaced online. We caught up with bassist Pete Wentz and Andy Hurley who opened up on the leak, telling EntertainmentWise: “They leaked it [the album] and it was really terrible quality, so we were like 'ok, let's leak it ourselves'. I think it makes sense - if people like the record then it'll help it, but you couldn't have done that 10 years ago. 10 years ago a leak was deadly for a record."
They'll release their new album American Beauty/American Psycho in the UK on January 20.
