Official debut

Commit This to Memory , which was leaked to file sharing websites months before its official debut, saw release on June 7, 2005, peaking at number two on Billboard ‘s Independent Albums chart. Pierre estimated that by 2015 the album had sold nearly 500,000 copies. The band’s music videos found regular rotation on networks such as MTV2 , and the band also performed on Late Night with Conan O’Brien . However, their mainstream breakthrough brought detractors, and they became a target for critics of pop punk : “[the band was] frequently characterized as the sort of ultra-commercial punk poseurs who water down the genre to the point of drowning it,” wrote Michael Roberts of Westword . The group continued to tour constantly, and started attracting larger crowds. They began the year with the inaugural Epitaph Tour, alongside Matchbook Romance and From First to Last. It was followed by dates on the Warped Tour 2005 , and the Nintendo Fusion Tour with Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco , and the Starting Line , which was their largest nationwide tour to that point.