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Tear the World Down

2010 studio album by We Are the Fallen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Tear the World Down is the first and only studio album by hard rock band We Are the Fallen. It was released in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2010 and the United States on May 11, 2010 under the Universal Republic record label. It includes their first single "Bury Me Alive". The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 33, selling 13,000 for the week. It has sold 41,000 copies as of September 2010.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tear the World Down” is 2010 studio album by We Are the Fallen. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tear, World and Down, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tear, World and Down is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tear the World Down” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.