<P> As the release of the new album approached, the band and its management found that they would have to navigate changes in the music industry, facing declining record sales, the lack of a proper outlet for exhibition of music videos, and the burgeoning US economic crisis . To promote the album, Wentz launched a viral campaign in August 2008, inspired by George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty - Four (1949), and the autocratic, overbearing Big Brother organization . Folie à Deux, released in December 2008, did not perform as well commercially as its predecessor, Infinity on High . It debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 150,000 copies during a highly competitive week with other big debuts, becoming Fall Out Boy's third consecutive top ten album . This is in contrast to the band's more successful previous effort which shifted 260,000 copies in its opening week to debut at number one the chart . Folie spent two weeks within the top 20 out of its 22 chart weeks . It also entered Billboard's Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts at number three . Within two months of its release, Folie à Deux was certified Gold in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of 500,000 copies . The lead single, "I Don't Care", reached a peak at number twenty - one on the Billboard Hot 100, and was certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipments of one million copies . </P> <P> To promote the album, Fall Out Boy embarked on the Believers Never Die Tour Part Deux, which included dates in the United States and Canada . The constant touring schedule became difficult for the band due to conflicting fan opinion regarding Folie à Deux: concertgoers would "boo the band for performing numbers from the record in concert", leading Stump to describe touring in support of Folie as like "being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in Clandestine hoods ." "Some of us were miserable onstage", said guitarist Joe Trohman . "Others were just drunk ." A greatest hits compilation, Believers Never Die--Greatest Hits, followed in the fall, and following these events, the band decided to take a break . The band's decision stemmed from disillusionment with the music industry and Stump recalled that "We found ourselves running on fumes a little bit--creatively and probably as people, too ." Stump realized the band was desperate to take a break; he sat the group down and explained that a hiatus was in order if the band wanted to continue in the future . All involved felt the dynamic of the group had changed as personalities developed . </P> <P> Rumors and misquotes led to confusion as to what such a break truly meant; Wentz preferred to not refer to the break as a "hiatus", instead explaining that the band was just "decompressing". Fall Out Boy played its last show at Madison Square Garden on October 4, 2009 . Near the end, Blink - 182's Mark Hoppus shaved Wentz's head in a move Andy Greene in Rolling Stone would later describe as a "symbolic cleansing of the past, but also the beginning of a very dark chapter for the band". </P> <P> By the time the break began, Stump was the heaviest he had ever been and loathed the band's image as an "emo" band . Coming home from tour, drummer Andy Hurley "went through the darkest depression (I've) ever felt . I looked at my calendar and it was just empty ." Wentz, who had been abusing Xanax and Klonopin, was divorced by his wife Ashlee Simpson and returned to therapy . "I'd basically gone from being the guy in Fall Out Boy to being the guy who, like, hangs out all day", Wentz recalled . Previously known as the "overexposed, despised" leader of the band, Wentz "simply grew up", sharing custody of his son and embracing maturity: "There was a jump - cut in my life . I started thinking--like, being old would be cool ." </P>

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