Fall Out Boy tops iTunes chart

Fall Out Boy had the Number One album, the Number One song and the Number One video on iTunes last week, according to Absolute Punk. The band also broke the record for most visits to a MySpace page in one day with over 500,000 when it began streaming its new disc, Infinity On High. Singer Patrick Stump told us that the band felt pressure to repeat the success of its 2005 album, From Under The Cork Tree, but managed to tune it out: "It's really easy to listen to it if you want to, but it's just as easy to shut it out, because you can kind of put the horse blinders on and just, and not pay attention to what's going on outside of you, you know. 'Cause of course there's people going, you know, like, 'You know, we need a single,' or there's people going, you know, like -- there's all sorts of different ideas and opinions. But you have to make something that you believe in, otherwise you wasted it."

Infinity On High is expected to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200 album chart later today (Wednesday, February 14th), with industry insiders predicting first-week sales of anywhere from 250,000 to 400,000.

Fall Out Boy hopscotched across the country on February 6th, the day of the new album's release, playing three shows in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Fall Out Boy will headline the 2007 Honda Civic Tour, which begins on April 18th in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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