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From Under the Cork Tree is the second studio album by alt-rockers Fall Out Boy. It was released on May 3, 2005, through Island Records as the band's major label debut. The music was composed by lead vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump, with all lyrics penned by bassist Pete Wentz, continuing the band's songwriting approach they took for some songs on their prior 2003 effort Take This to Your Grave. Neal Avron handled production duties. The album was Fall Out Boy's breakthrough mainstream success. Spearheaded by the lead single "Sugar, We're Goin Down", the album debuted at #9 on the US Billboard 200 with 68, 000 first week sales, a position it stayed at for two non-consecutive weeks, earning the band their first Top Ten album and becoming their longest charting and best-selling album. It logged fourteen weeks in the Top 20 out of it's seventy-eight chart weeks.