Widely considered to be one of the most influential bands of the 1990’s and one of the key members of the grunge movement, Pearl Jam has followed the increasingly popular trend of re-releasing one of their most successful albums in a new and improved package. With an estimated sixty million albums sold worldwide throughout their career it may be difficult to determine which album that would be, but for the band formed in the mid 1980’s, it was their freshman release “Ten” from 1991 that seemed most appropriate. Although released at the end of August 1991, “Ten” reached notable commercial success in mid 1992 when it was certified gold and reached number 2 on the Billboard charts. With songs like “Jeremy”, “Alive” and “Even Flow”, the album remained on the charts for over two years and has gone on to go twelve times platinum (12 million album sold). Continue reading ‘Pearl Jam Re-monetizing a classic in a fickle age’
