Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’ Is Back on the Charts 35 Years Later
Thirty-five years after it dropped, Pearl Jam’s debut album is charting again.
“Ten,” originally released August 27, 1991, sits at No. 19 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart as of November 7, 2026 — more than three decades after it first climbed the charts. The record first reached the Billboard 200 on January 4, 1992, and peaked at No. 2 on August 22 of that year.
It’s the album Pearl Jam is still best known for, and for good reason: “Jeremy,” “Alive,” “Even Flow,” “Black,” “Oceans” and “Once” have been radio staples for decades, and the record has no weak cuts — not even its hidden track.
Fans have long since crowned it: “Ten” was voted No. 1 when Rolling Stone held a “Best Grunge Albums of All Time” readers’ poll in November 2012, and it placed No. 3 on Rolling Stone’s 2019 ranking of the 50 greatest grunge albums, behind only Nirvana’s “Nevermind” and Soundgarden’s “Badmotorfinger.”
The comeback fits this week’s nostalgia wave on the Billboard charts — My Chemical Romance’s “The Black Parade” just hit No. 1 twenty years after release (read our story: The Black Parade Finally Hit No. 1 — 20 Years After Release), and Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” stormed back for its 20th anniversary.
Image: Pearl Jam live at Wrigley Field — via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: Men’s Journal
