ten: maybe sold ten albums!!!!!!!hehe

vs. : 900,000?

vitalogy: 700,000?

no code: 300,000

yield: ????

binaural : 200,000?

riot act: 165,000?

anyone have more accurate numbers??

will this be pearl jams best opening week since no code???

that wouuld be an achievement.

where did you get that information. or are they estimates?

they're just estimates

I know Vs. was (at the time) the fastest selling album of all time.

yeah i know that.

beaten recently by limp bizkit or britney or eminem or some shit like that anyway

binaural was 224k i believe, riot act 168k

not sure about No Code or Yield (i think Yield still sold around 300-350k first week)

well, depending on how you look at it:

Also, Vs. set the record for selling more copies (950,000) in its opening week than any other album since SoundScan started keeping track in 1991. Vs. maintained that record until a new monitoring system went into place in 1998 that changed the way sales were reported. That new system now monitors sales in the debut week for 7 days, whereas the old system (when Vs. was released) only allowed debuts 5 days of sales to be counted from some distributors. So technically Pearl Jam owns and will always own the record for most albums sold in a week using the 5 day system. (To borrow an analogy, it's like when track changed from the 40 yard races to 40 meter races. Someone holds the record for 40 meters, but the old records in the 40 yard races will still stand). In 1999 and 2000, this record has been reset several times by a variety of teen pop bands that compete for the record and have sold several million in the first week, which it's safe to say beats even the old record. But if you still want to claim the record for Pearl Jam, then technically you can.

A couple of posts over at The Pit claim that several sources are say the record will sell 300 to 350 in the first week. Is there anyway that can be correct. That would be pretty amazing.

internet preorders, bet it from the 10C or elsewhere, do they get counted as 1st week?

i used to have a poster that said that.

I believe Vitalogy sold around 650,000 to 700,000 in it's first week.......not bad after VS did........I think it was actually 968,000 in it's first week. After that things didn't go nearly as well. What "Pearl Jam" will do? Who knows? With the puter age and such, it's tough to sell at that rate anymore......unless your that country band.....what's their face? The guy with the nasalated shitty voice.......well whatever......those numbers are hard to achieve anymore. Hopefully "Pearl Jam" will do around 350,000, I know that's a stretch, but what the hell, it's a fantastic record!

I would think so.

And when Vs came out I believe it tracked actual number of copies sold. Whereas now they count the number of copies shipped to retail. If that's true, it's a huge difference. I know I've heard this, but can anyone confirm if it's true?

The numbers that get reported by Soundscan are the actual out the door sales figures (and this is the data that will get reported by Billboard next week). You're thinking of the certifications (gold, platinum, etc) that the RIAA issues. Those are based off of what gets shipped to retail.

me too. it was awesome.