Pearl Jam

PEARL JAM. American rock band formed in Seattle Washington in 1990. They broke into the mainstream with their debut album "Ten" in 1991. Ten stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for nearly five years and has gone on to become one of the highest-selling rock records ever, going 13× Platinum in the United States. Released in 1993, their second album "Vs" sold over 950,000 copies in its first week of release, setting the record for most copies of an album sold in its first week of release at the time. Their third album Vitalogy (1994) became the second-fastest-selling CD in history at the time with more than 877,000 units sold in its first week. One of the key bands in the grunge movement of the early 1990s, its members often shunned popular music industry practices such as making music videos or participating in interviews. They had sold more than 85 million albums worldwide by 2018 (including nearly 32 million albums in the United States by 2012) making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 in its first year of eligibility. They were ranked 8th in a readers' poll by Rolling Stone magazine in its "Top Ten Live Acts of All Time" issue