of release. At the time, this was the biggest opening week for a new artist on Victory. The album spent one week (at number 183) on the Billboard 200, and 68 weeks on the Heatseekers Albums chart, peaking at number nine. It spent 78 weeks on the Independent Albums chart, peaking at number eight, and peaked at number 23 on the Catalog Albums chart. It reached number 10 on the Independent Albums Year-end chart in 2003. Despite little airplay, Tell All Your Friends had sold 110,000 copies by March 2003; near the end of the year, sales stood at 252,000. By April 2004 the album had sold nearly 400,000 copies, and by September 2005 it was certified gold by the RIAA. By May 2009, the album had sold 790,000 copies in the US, eventually selling one million copies worldwide. Tell All Your Friends is Taking Back Sunday and Victory Records' best-selling release. It would also become Victory's longest-running record on the Billboard Heatseekers and Independent Albums charts. "Great Romances of the 20th Century" charted at number 33 on UK Rock & Metal Singles chart in 2011. Legacy Best-of lists, influence and retrospective reviews Drowned in Sound included the album on their list of top albums of 2002. According to Alternative Press Philip Obenschain, Tell All Your Friends "has remained one of the scene's most celebrated and influential releases". Despite its "not be[ing] their best sounding, most mature or highest in ambition ... it's Tell All Your Friends intangible and emotionally charged energy, the uncertainty, the earnestness and the rough edges that make it so special". The album was included in Rock Sounds 101 Modern Classics list at number 13, and the magazine considered it "[t]he Hybrid Theory of emo". They later ranked it at number 35 on the list of best albums in their lifetime. Billboard said "Cute Without the 'E' (Cut from the Team)" "basically helped popularize post-hardcore and emo to the public". Austin Saalman of Under the Radar said the album was a "central influence" on the third wave of emo, "which soon unfolded and ultimately dominated '00s popular culture". Tell All Your Friends has been included on several best-of emo album lists by A.Side TV, Alternative Press, Houston Press, Junkee, NME, and Rolling Stone, as well as by journalists Leslie Simon and Trevor Kelley in their book Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture (2007). Similarly,