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Release Date
1 January 2001
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Length
11 tracks
Stay What You Are is the third studio album from American rock band Saves the Day, released on July 10th, 2001 through Vagrant Records.
The album sold 15,000 copies in the first week, and 70,000 copies by the end of the year. By March 2002, the album had sold over 120,000 copies, becoming one of Vagrant's best-selling releases. Stay What You Are reached number 100 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
In the years since its release, Stay What You Are is widely regarded as a classic and a highly influential piece of music for the emo and pop punk genres. NME listed the album as one of "20 Emo Albums That Have Resolutely Stood The Test Of Time". Similarly, Houston Press included the listed the album as one of the best emo albums of 2001–2005. Paste included the video for "At Your Funeral" at number seven of their 10 Best Emo Music Videos list. Tim Landers of Transit and Brandon McMaster of The Crimson Armada featured the album on their Five Albums That Changed My Life lists. Saves the Day played the album in full at FYF Fest in August 2016.
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