Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’ Sells 10-Million Copies

Pearl Jam's 1991 debut album, Ten, has now officially sold 10 million copies, according to Billboard, which tracks record sales via Nielsen SoundScan. Although the set received its "diamond" status a while back for shipping 10 million copies to stores, the band passed the actual sales figure this week as the disc moved another 4,000 copies. This makes Ten the 22nd release to sell that many copies since Nielsen began tracking sales data in 1991.

SIDE NOTES: The Top 10 albums that have sold more than 10 million copies since 1991 are:
1. Metallica, Metallica (1991), 15.9 million
2. Shania Twain, Come On Over (1997), 15.5 million
3. Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill (1995)
, 14.8 million
4. Backstreet Boys, Millennium (1999)
, 12.2 million
5. The Beatles, 1 (2000)
, 12.2 million
6. Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard (1992)
, 12.1 million
7. Santana, Supernatural (1999)
, 11.7 million
8. Creed, Human Clay (1999)
, 11.6 million
9. Bob Marley & the Wailers, Legend (1984), 11.3 million
10. *NSYNC, No Strings Attached (2000)
, 11.1 million