Release of From Under the Cork Tree

From Under the Cork Tree debuted and peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 upon its May 3, 2005 release. It was spearheaded by the band’s breakthrough single, “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down”, reached number eight in the US Billboard Hot 100 in September 2005, and in the UK chart in February 2006, crossing over from Alternative to Pop radio. ” Dance, Dance “, the album’s second single, also was a top ten hit in the United States and was certified 3× Platinum in 2014. The record’s success led to stardom among teenagers in North America, and the band’s first arena tour had the group playing to 10,000 people per night. Rolling Stone wrote that the band’s “anthems”, distributed and marketed through their MySpace , connected with “skinny-jeans-wearing teen girls”. In support of From Under the Cork Tree , the band toured exhaustively with international tours, TRL visits, late-night television appearances and music award shows. The band performed at music festivals in 2005 and 2006, including the third Nintendo Fusion Tour in the fall of 2005, joining The Starting Line , Motion City Soundtrack , Boys Night Out , and Panic! at the Disco on a 31 city tour. The album earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist , and has sold over 2.7 million copies in the United States, becoming the group’s best-selling album. “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” also won the band an MTV Video Music Award .