AceShowbiz 2006’s 19th Week Artist Is Pearl Jam

Creating success after another, Pearl Jam (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/pearl_jam/) keeps showing their dominance in the mainstream rock music, all of which in short makes it worth for AceShowbiz.com to pick the band as its “Artist of the Week” for the 19th week of 2006 (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/music/artist/2006_19.html). Marking their comeback to music scene with single “World Wide Suicide” landing on the top spot of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, the so-called one of the Big Four of grunge music is ready to undergo such a hectic schedule of live performance for the rest of 2006, including that of a worldwide tour covering European and North America region in support of their eponymous album.

Sticking it out when the going gets tough within years of their music career, Pearl Jam stands still and proves the whole world that they are more than just a so-so band. Name their debut album, “Ten”, which was certified 12 times Platinum, it is obvious from the very beginning that the boys are indeed born to be an icon. Quickly followed it up with their sophomore effort, “Vs.”, the set scored a much greater achievement for it brilliantly sold 950,000 copies during its first week of release, setting an all-time record for doing so while also was certified 7 times Platinum, altogether brought the music act to their golden year.

A band of many accomplishments, Pearl Jam repeats the same success with their third LP “Vitalogy”, which gained 5 times Platinum status, one track of which “Spin the Black Circle” even won them a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance category in 1996. Next made a cover of Wayne Cochran's 1950s ballad of “Last Kiss” which led to the demand of commercial single release for the tune, the set instantly soared to the second rank of The Billboard Hot 100 after being released on June 8, 1999 and so became Pearl Jam's highest charting single to date. Then had their sixth studio album, “Binaural”, released on May 16, 2000, the troupe subsequently launched their 72 live albums that brought them to set a record for creating most albums to debut in the Billboard Top 200 at the same time.

Judging from their many success in worldwide music industry, Pearl Jam would surely sky rocketing even higher than ever with their highly anticipated self-titled album, scheduled to be released by May 2 of the same year under J Records.

About “Artist of the Week” (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/music/artist/) -
As one of AceShowbiz.com features on musician highlight, it displays famous musician figure chosen every once in a week for particular week. As of everybody to notice, AceShowbiz “Artist of the Week” is chosen based on amount of search keyword, most request, and the long circulating news on the street that bring the artist to be the center of public attention and talk of the town. Listed in “Artist of the Week” 5 last previous weeks are :
Daniel Powter (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/daniel_powter/),
Rascal Flatts (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/rascal_flatts/),
Pink (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/pink/),
Prince (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/prince/) and
The Veronicas (http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/the_veronicas/).