most of this is directly from the pearljam.com timeline (except for the slashdot.org part). if you know anything else just add on, i'm not sure of all the record sales stuff (ten being 12 times platinum? or vitalogy going quadruple platinum in 2 months?) so i just put in what the website said was a first...

(changed statement about "alive" video) thanks everyone that caught that error

Vs., Pearl Jam's second album, is released on CD and cassette on Epic Records, one week after its release on vinyl. Vs. enters the Billboard Top 200 Album chart at #1 and sets a SoundScan record with first week sales of 950,378 copies.

Vitalogy was released on vinyl on November 22, 1994, more than two weeks before its release on CD. It debuted at number 55 on the Billboard Top 200, the first vinyl record album to chart since the introduction of the compact disc format. (thanks mray)

Breaking the record for the most releases by one artist to simultaneously chart, five of Pearl Jam's double-CD "official bootlegs" from the 2000 European tour enter the Billboard Top 200 album chart today

A record-breaking seven albums from the North American bootleg series enter the Billboard Top 200 chart. This marks the highest number of albums by a single artist to appear on the chart at the same time.

All told, a record-breaking 14 of the bootlegs entered the Billboard chart in their first week of release.

Upon its release, Touring Band 2000 gains recognition as the biggest selling music DVD ever to date within the first week of unit sales.

"World Wide Suicide," Pearl Jam's first single from their eighth studio album, makes chart history becoming the first digitally delivered #1 song in Canada's history. (thanks for pointing that out vtt)

Pearl Jam released their first music video in quite a while under a Creative Commons license allowing anyone to "legally copy, distribute and share the clip" for noncommercial purposes. Creative Commons thinks this may be the first video produced by a major label ever to be CC-licensed.

So like i said, if anybody knows about some of the record sales stuff, or, well anything that i didn't know, just put it up....

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I didn't know that about the alive video. thanks

thanks for posting this. i love little facts like these.

and im sure theres more.

Boom is the first Hawaiian to play organ on a successful Seattle 5 piece rock band. (I dont count him as a piece)

I remember some first about the WWS single. Something like the electronic distribution to radio stations or something like that...

About a week ago I saw the 'Alive' video on VHI Classic. I hadnt seen it for literally 12 years or so. Funny stuff, with the wave crashing at the beginning and end.

Also who was that girl guitar player in the band before Stone got there?

something about it being the first song to go to number one in canada without a hard copy single or sending a hard copy to radiostations or something... i don't remember exactly.

- wasn't DTE the 1st fully animated music video?
- I'm sure Last Kiss was the only fan club single that ever became a top 5 Billboard hit.
- 1st band to sue Ticketmaster.
- 1st to write an anti Bush song?
- 1st band to play 3 consecutive shows w/o a repeat (technically no w/ YLB).

there were plenty of anti-bush songs before bushleaguer, although PJ may have been the most high profile artist to release one

First band to get booed while playing an anti Bush song.
First band to have fans (?) walk out while playing an anti Bush song.

PJ.com is incorrect about this. Michael Stipe sang live vocals in the video for R.E.M.'s "So. Central Rain" in 1984. He also never lip synched in any R.E.M. video (except "Wolves, Lower") in the 1980's.

They weren't consecutive, either.

AC/DC also had a non-lipsynched "Back in Black" video.

Vitalogy was released on vinyl on November 22, 1994, more than two weeks before its release on CD. It debuted at number 55 on the Billboard Top 200, the first vinyl record album to chart since the introduction of the compact disc format.

you never saw the Grateful Dead. Phish did it well before PJ too.

maybe, but the final cuts used in the video weren't live (except for S. Central Rain)

dj shadow and zach de la rocha had the first with "march of death"

Wasn't Aerosmith's "What it takes" a live cut (albeit in the studio)?

Edit: and Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters"?