ABC/Paula LoboThanks to their new album M A N I A, Fall Out Boy now has a total of four number-one Billboard 200 albums in their career. Speaking with Billboard, bassist Pete Wentz says that M A N I A‘s number-one debut is a “testament to our fanbase.”
“They’ve been very loyal,” Wentz says. “I don’t think we’re an easy, popular act to swallow. It’s just because they go out and buy the record. There’s no other ginormous campaign. I think it’s just a testament to them more than anything.”
Wentz tries not to put too much stock in sales figures — “Numbers don’t fill a void that you have,” he says — but the success of M A N I A does help him feel “vindicated” for delaying the album, which was originally supposed to be released last September. Instead, it was released in January of this year.
“I was really nervous about pushing it back,” Wentz says of M A N I A. “I feel like letting people down is the worst feeling. I think the only other alternative was to put out a record that we felt was mediocre.”
“So it feels a little bit vindicating that people came out and bought [it] after we took the time to make the album that we wanted,” he continues. “That feels really cool.”
Fall Out Boy will kick off a U.S. tour in support of M A N I A August 29 in Uniondale, New York.
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