Announcement of Save Rock and Roll

The band members’ main goal was to reinvent the group’s sound from scratch, creating what Trohman called a “reimagining of the band”, which focuses more on pop. Sessions were not without difficulties, as the band struggled initially to produce new material. Walker had doubts about the band’s volatility, feeling the record would not get made following “meltdown after meltdown”. The entire album was recorded in secrecy from the music industry, critics, and fans of the band. While specifically denying that the group’s announcement was a reunion because “[the group had] never broke[n] up”, the band announced a reunion tour and details of Save Rock and Roll on February 4, 2013. The quartet’s announcement included a photo of the group that had been taken earlier that morning of the band members huddled around a bonfire, tossing copies of their back catalog into flames at Comiskey Park , the original location of 1979’s Disco Demolition Night , a baseball promotional event which involved destroying disco records. A message on the group’s website read “when we were kids the only thing that got us through most days was music. It’s why we started Fall Out Boy in the first place. This isn’t a reunion because we never broke up. We needed to plug back in and make some music that matters to us. The future of Fall Out Boy starts now. Save rock and roll…” Save Rock and Roll debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, with first week sales of 154,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan . The arrival of Save Rock and Roll posted the quartet’s third-biggest sales week, and earned the group’s second career number one on the chart. The band’s chart success was described as unexpected by music journalists. Andy Greene in Rolling Stone called the band’s comeback a “rather stunning renaissance”, and Entertainment Weekly called the number one a “major accomplishment for a band whom many in the industry had dismissed as kings of a genre whose time had passed”.