Breaks Its Own Chart Record

Yahoo! Music, Mar 7, 2001 4:00 pm PST
(3/7/01, 4 p.m. ET) - Pearl Jam has broken its own record for the number of titles to debut simultaneously on the Billboard 200 album chart. Seven of the band's 23 first-leg North American tour live albums debuted in the bottom quarter of the chart this week.

The band set the previous record back in October when five of its European live albums debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart.

The band can set another record next month when 24 more CDs of its North American Tour, from the second leg, are released March 27.

The charting Pearl Jam live bootlegs are:

Number 159 - Jones Beach, New York (August 2)

Number 163 - Boston, Massachusetts

Number 174 - Indianapolis, Indiana

Number 176 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Number 179 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Number 181 - Tampa, Florida

Number 191 - Memphis, Tennessee

-- Darren Davis, New York

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