title amount sold this year total
Pearl Jam - 657,089
Rearviewmirror - 135,570 658,353
Ten - 77,086 9,430,821
lost dogs - 19,931 381,643
vs. - 16,864 5,907,568
live at the garden - 12,934 169,922
live at benaroya - 12,133 177,621
Vitalogy - 10,114 4,699,956
touring band 2000 - 8,104 192,208
yield - 6,166 1,587,277
live on two legs - 5,550 923,845
riot act - 5,212 501,240
Mansfield 2003 - 5,024 61,739
no code - 4,433 1,398,678
binaural - 4,245 743,637
tokyo 2003 - 2,946 55,778
MSG 2003 (combined) - 2,500 26,335
Single Video Theory - 1,606 106,812
MSG 1 2003 - 1,603 26,093
MSG 2 2003 - 1,293 23,300
Perth 2003 - 1,157 40,277

thanks to seth and soundscan for the figures.

pearl jam have sold a million albums in america this year. and sales are rising again for christmas. i'll get back to you all with the final figures in a couple of weeks.

i've no figures for the 2000 bootlegs. if anyone has legit figures i'd like to add them to the totals!!!!

Pearl Jam have sold 31,257,094 albums in america since their inception.

if members of pj get at least one cent per sale, that's some nice extra cash

thanks for the stats

That rate gives them about $65,000 each for all those albums.

31 mill is quite a milestone.

is the second figure on there for the world?

No, it's total all-time.

i'm kind of surprised RVM isn't selling more, it's a pretty good beginners package for the listener whom has interest in buying an album but can't pick one.

I'm surprised that vs. sold so much less in comparison to Ten in total. I still remember the hype when "PJ's new album after the breakthrough" was released. I would have thought the difference to be smaller.

that too.

nope.

but if you're interested pearl jam (the album) has sold around 1.5 million albums worldwide

which makes it one of the best selling rock albums of this year.

to put their sales in context:
stadium arcadium - 5 million
10,000 days - 2.5 million
the open door 2.5 million
modern times 1.9 million
sams town 2 million
first impressions of earth 1.2 million
a matter of life and death 1 million
we shall overcome 1.8 million
the black parade 1 million

all these figures are from http://www.mediatraffic.de

Wasn't Ten given the diamond award for having sold more than ten million copies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_be ... ted_States

Something's wrong here.

Pearl Jam has only sold 86,000 less than Binaural!?

binaural has been out for 6 years

Thats what I mean!

yeah, i completely missed that word "only"

FYI, Stadium Arcadium is a double disc, so the sales statistics are always doubled. In reality, it sold 2.5 mill in comparison to the other albums.

I don't think Stadium has sold a million units yet in the US, it's still considered platinum X1 on the Billboard charts, which is 500,000+ for a double album.

Maybe so, but I thought those were worldwide figures that keyser listed?

those figures must be North America only because ive read many times that the worldwide figures for "Ten" are around 16-18 million

Sales aren't doubled for numbers like these on double-discs...that only happens for certification purposes. S.A. has in fact moved 5 million copies worldwide. It's been a huge hit.

It's interesting that, except for Ten, Pearl Jam's back catalogue sales are well below a lot of other career artists of comparitive, or even smaller, size. Most of their catalogue sells like the Talking Heads' records do. It'll be interesting how time effects this, especially as the band has become more and more popular with critics.

And also, although I was among the most skeptical early on, I couldn't help but notice the massive number of complaints around the web on popular music message boards regarding Pearl Jam's lack of inclusion in the Grammy list, so maybe there's something to the heavy-download theory.