Pearl Jam is an American rock band. Alongside Nirvana’s Nevermind, their 1991 debut album Ten played a pivotal role in transforming alternative culture into pop culture in the early 1990s, ushering in a new wave of likeminded artists and making the grunge aesthetic of their local Seattle scene a global export. Though Ten would yield some of Pearl Jam’s defining singles—including Alive, Jeremy, and Black—its highly anticipated 1993 follow-up Vs. would set an industry record at the time by selling just short of a million copies within the first week of release.