Vs.

Vs. is the second album by Pearl Jam, where the struggle to find a successor to the acclaimed Ten led to an aggressive sound where the band seems to want to fight everyone (to the point the title is an abbreviation of the original proposal, “Five (bandmembers) Against One”) aside from calmer tracks such as “Daughter”. The group also scaled back on promotion, denying to make any music videos, and the album was still successful: upon its North American release, Vs. sold 950k copies, a record for a debut week that stood for five years, and kept the top spot at the Billboard 200 chart for five weeks (the longest duration for a Pearl Jam album) on the way to 7 million units sold in the United States.