band info
- the band was formed in seattle, washington in late 1990
- it was formed by ament and gossard after andrew wood's death broke up mother love bone
- gossard, ament, and mccready recorded a three song instrumental demo with cameron. irons gave the tape to vedder. After this mookie blaylock was born, with the addition of krusen on drums.
- they named their first album ten after mookie blaylock's number 10.
- albums sold in the us
- vs. set the record for selling more copies (950,000) in its opening week than any other album **
- vitalogy debuted at No. 55 on the billboard top 200 when it was release on vinyl one week before the cd. This was the first vinyl to chart since the inception of the cd.
- the 2000 european bootlegs tied the record for most albums on the chart, 5. they also set the record for most albums on the chart in a debut week.
- videos:
- awards:
- 1993 mtv video awards for jeremy
- best group video
- favorite artist: heavy metal / hard rock
- best director
- video of the year
- american music awards 1993
- favorite new artist pop / rock
- favorite new artist heavy metal / hard rock
- american music awards 1996
- grammy awards 1996
- american music awards 1998
- favorite alternative band
*the "diamond award" is a prestigious award given to records that have reached the milestone of 10 million copies sold.
** this is since soundscan started keeping track in 1991. this record was maintained until a new monitoring system went into place in 1998. the new system monitors sales in a debut week of 7 days rather than 5. So, technically, pearl jam will still own the true record. anyone who gets the record now, and a plethora of boy bands have, an astirik will be placed by their name.