{"id":794027,"date":"2019-03-21T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/the-single-that-fall-out-boys-fans-chose-has-just-gone-gold"},"modified":"2019-03-21T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T18:33:00","slug":"the-single-that-fall-out-boys-fans-chose-has-just-gone-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-single-that-fall-out-boys-fans-chose-has-just-gone-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Single That Fall Out Boy\u2019s Fans Chose Has Just Gone Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>This marks the first Gold certification for the &#8216;MANIA&#8217; album cycle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/falloutboy_smoke_head.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It may not have been the single that the label or radio wanted, but&nbsp;<strong>Fall Out Boy<\/strong>&nbsp;fans knew. They KNEW.<\/p>\n<p>Fall Out Boy&#8217;s single &#8216;The Last Of The Real Ones&#8217; has officially been certified Gold in the US, marking the first single off &#8216;MANIA&#8217; to be certified.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Rock Sound last year Pete Wentz shared that while the band&#8217;s record label and radio had chosen &#8216;Hold Me Tight Or Don&#8217;t&#8217; as the single, the fans had rallied behind &#8216;The Last Of The Real Ones&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And it turns out that the fans had it right all along &#8211; so while &#8216;The Last Of The Real Ones&#8217; wasn&#8217;t a radio single, it was still so popular with fans that it is the first single from &#8216;MANIA&#8217; to earn itself a Gold certification.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This learning curve is also something that Pete wants to harness more in the future, sharing that <em>&#8220;the one thing I would do differently in the future is listen to the kids on that, because they just drive it anyway&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check out the interview with Rock Sound below where Pete talks about fans choosing &#8216;The Last Of The Real Ones&#8217; as the single:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.7826086956522\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Fall Out Boy have earned their first Gold certified single of the &#8216;MANIA&#8217; era, and it turns out it was the single that the fans chose &#8211; not their label or radio <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/76njlou6UW\">pic.twitter.com\/76njlou6UW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rock Sound (@rocksound) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rocksound\/status\/1108775278732591104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/the-single-that-fall-out-boys-fans-chose-has-just-gone-gold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This marks the first Gold certification for the &#8216;MANIA&#8217; album cycle. It may not have been the single that the label or radio wanted, but&nbsp;Fall Out Boy&nbsp;fans knew. They KNEW. Fall Out Boy&#8217;s single &#8216;The Last Of The Real Ones&#8217; has officially been certified Gold in the US, marking the first single off &#8216;MANIA&#8217; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 21:17:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}