Patrick Stump Says He's 'Ridiculously Lucky' That Fall Out Boy 'Has Lasted This Long' (Exclusive)

Stump remembers becoming “really acquainted with what music careers usually look like” while working at a used record store before his rise to fame

knows that music careers as prolific and longstanding as his are few and far apart.

“I got a chance. It’s crazy,” he tells PEOPLE, remembering a job he had in the days before his rise to stardom that taught him a lot about the scope of typical professional musician’s careers.

The lead singer, 40, shares, “I used to work at a used record store. That was one of my first jobs, and it was a used record store, meaning that people really only brought in records they didn’t want. And so I got really acquainted with what music careers usually look like, and they don’t look like mine.”

“They don’t look like the one that I’ve had,” he continues, highlighting how “some artists that I loved or some of my favorite artists ever had one or two songs that people liked.”

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Explaining that those artists are defined as simply having an “era,” Stump notes how he is “so ridiculously lucky” that Fall Out Boy “has lasted this long.”

“People still come to see us and I’m doing this show. It’s one of those things,” noting how “any one of” Fall Out Boy’s accomplishments individually “would be a big deal,” and the totality of their success “should be a big deal” in terms of any single band’s achievements.

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Fall Out Boy released their debut album, Take This to Your Grave, in May 2003. However, the band’s commercial success truly boomed with the release of the track “Sugar, We’re Going Down” as a part of the 2005 album From Under the Cork Tree. The reception to their sophomore project gave Fall Out Boy their first peak at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and earned them a Grammy nomination for best new artist.

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In the years since, the band has consistently released fan-favorite, critically acclaimed albums including Infinity on High in 2007, Folie à Deux in 2008, Save Rock and Roll in 2013, American Beauty/American Psycho in 2015, Mania in 2018 and most recently So Much (for) Stardust in 2023.

To Stump, the successes of his career are far from lost on him. “I try to take it for granted. I’m like, this is crazy. This is crazy that I get to do this and I’m doing this,” he reflects.

“I try not to think about it too much as an achievement and more of just like a gift. You know what I mean? I’m so grateful to get to do this,” the singer, who’s currently promoting his work on the Disney+ and Disney Jr. series , says. “If I could have told myself when I was 12 that any of these things were going to happen, there’s no way I could fathom that.”

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