Pearl Jam minus America

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a rabbit & a fox walk into a pearl jam message board...

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rabbit: "what would pearl jam even be, minus america?"

fox: </<

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Eddie Wetter

Matt Camarooned

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I came across a forum where someone had posted a bunch of worldwide sales minus American figures. We all know that PJ's popularity in America was disproportionate to their global status, but it was interesting to see how the band compared to some of their peers from around the same time. These numbers are maybe 7 years old or so, but sales have been at such a crawl since then that I doubt the changes have been drastic. I shortened the numbers but preserved the order.

In millions:

Nevermind - 13
What's the Story (Morning Glory) - 11.5 (a third of this is in England!)
Use Your Illusion 2 - 11
Out of Time - 10
Use Your Illusion 1 - 10
Achtung Baby - 10
Metallica - 9.5
Automatic for the People - 8.5
Dookie - 8
Monster - 6
Blood Sex Sugar Magik - 5.5
Definitely Maybe - 5.5
Ten - 5.5
In Utero - 5
Mellon Collie - 5
Be Here Now - 4
Superunknown - 4
Zooropa - 4
Vs - 3.5
Insomniac - 3.5
New Adventures in Hi Fi - 3
Vitalogy - 3
Siamese Dream - 2.5
One Hot Minute - 2.5
Downward Spiral - 2
Dirt - 2
Yield - 2
Jar of Flies - 2
No Code - 1.5
Up - 1.5
Down on the Upside - 1.5

This explains what you see in all the souvenir t-shirt shops in foreign countries.