Forbes Magazine Suddenly Ranks The Success of “Dark Matter”—A New Album Of Songs From Grunge-Era Music Stars Pearl Jam
Hugh McIntyre, a Senior Contributor for Forbes, lambasted the grunge-era musical band-ship Pearl Jam by giving readers such a written and detailed account of success as to spotlight the Billboard 200 ratings achieved by the Grammy-awarded rockstars after the release of their 12th studio album, Dark Matter: “This frame, Dark Matter sits at No. 171 on the Billboard 200. That’s a decline of 165 spots—most of the chart—in a single downward movement.” (Hugh McIntyre)
Later, McIntyre wrote, “In its second frame of availability, Dark Matter moved another 8,589 equivalent units, according to Luminate.”
On the 4th of May, Pearl Jam launched into a world tour through two sold-out shows at the Rogers Stadium (19,700 seats), in Vancouver, Canada. With merchandise lines running for blocks, at times, sales of 20,000 copies or more Dark Matter albums most definitely could have been achieved. No information about these particular sales have been included, to my knowledge.
I admittedly had the pleasure of squeezing into a completely sold-out show during Pearl Jam’s second stop on their 2024 tour route, at the Moda Center (20,500 seats), in Portland, Oregon. Again, merchandise lines were at a record length where, I suppose, thousands more Dark Matter albums were sold directly to fans.
Www.pearljam.com provides intel concerning twenty-seven upcoming stadium/arena shows as achieving SOLD-OUT status for Pearl Jam. Said tally includes massive venues. For example, Pearl Jam has two sold-out nights at Fenway Park (something like 37,000 seating capacity each night), and two sold-out nights at Wrigley Field (over 40,000 seating capacity each night).
As the tour gains momentum, fan response is like nothing the members of Pearl Jam have received prior to the release of the band’s Dark Matter album.
“Sooooooo good live!”
“Epic night epic performance, better than ever!”
“Both Vegas shows were incredible. The visuals for this tour are insane.”
“You guys tore the roof off Rogers Arena last night. Thank you! Have another great one tomorrow! PJ for life!”
“I was there with my dad that night and it [Something Special] was amazing.”
“[Something Special] My new fave PJ song that makes me ugly cry.”
“I love every song on Dark Matter but this song [Something Special] is becoming my very favorite. Thank you for sharing with us.”
The Forbes media mogul article of 13 May ran with a downsizing title: “Pearl Jam’s New Album Is Tumbling Down The Charts.” With it slings words of failure for the Grammy-awarded Pearl Jam band-ship whose crew includes, at the helm, Eddie Vedder, who appears always closely supported by the now-iconic songwriters and musicians Jeff Ament (bassist/songwriter), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar/songwriter), Mike McCready (lead guitar/songwriter), and Matt Cameron (drummer/songwriter).The Forbes article that was published on the 13th of May is a surprising turn for the worse after better days, just only one single week earlier, when the following title was also presented by Forbes to its readership: “Pearl Jam Hits No. 1 On Five Billboard Charts Simultaneously” (6 May 2024).
In the face of repetitive success, another article published by Forbes, on 6 May, challenged knowledge by running its title: “Pearl Jam’s New Album Has Given The Band 90% Of All Their Hits On One Chart.” This article focuses upon savvy marketing technique available for any Dark Matter promotional output. The Forbes article describes the benefit of Pearl Jam’s management team having invested an unstated amount of payment for entitlement upon list/chart called, “Hot Hard Rock Songs chart”. By this, it seems, Dark Matter was the single album solidly invested upon it.
The title from the Forbes article dated the 13th of May possibly might be interpreted by several devout members of Pearl Jam’s internationally-bonded fanbase “Ten Club” something like, “Hidden children tossed stones at a religious billboard, this week.”
Reported sales of millions globally for Dark Matter, are estimated to one day be achievable for Pearl Jam. Once regarded as possible reincarnations of Christ and the Apostles themselves, today the band Pearl Jam suffers from mindless but mediocre control of religious libel that struggles itself against a cascade of newly formed PR and marketing persona. Squarely aimed, more than directly against itself, than the heart, per se, it is deemed.
The grunge-era band fronted by music legend Eddie Vedder released their 12th studio album called Dark Matter amidst extreme acclaim from a millions-strong fanbase which touches every existing country. It is estimated that nearly one hundred million people, planetwide, are staunch Pearl Jam supporters, as well as devoted fans, who possibly also turn radios up when PJ favorites play, such as “Even Flow” (1991), “Better Man” (1994), “Last Kiss” (1998), “Sirens” (2013), and now from the Dark Matter album release “Wreckage” (2024), “Something Special” (2024), and “Waiting For Stevie” (2024)—to name a few of the dozens of classic Pearl Jam songs fans adore.
The ongoing Pearl Jam success story started something like over thirty years ago and is still yielding in the hundreds of millions of dollars generated annually, today, supposedly.
