What is Ten (Pearl Jam album)?
{{Infobox album | name = Ten | type = studio | artist = [[Pearl Jam]] | released = {{start date|1991|08|27}} | recorded = March 27&nbsp;– April 26, 1991, June 1991 | studio = London Bridge Studio, [[Seattle, Washington]], Ridge Farm Studio, [[Surrey, England]] | genre = <!--Genres are sourced in the prose--> * [[Grunge]] * [[alternative rock]] * {{nowrap|[[hard rock]]}} | length = {{Duration|m=53|s=20}} | label = [[Epic Records|Epic]] | producer = * [[Rick Parashar]] * Pearl Jam | misc = {{Singles | name = Ten | type = studio | single1 = [[Alive (Pearl Jam song)|Alive]] | single1date = July 7, 1991 | single2 = [[Even Flow]] | single2date = April 6, 1992 | single3 = [[Jeremy (song)|Jeremy]] | single3date = September 27, 1992 | single4 = [[Oceans (Pearl Jam song)|Oceans]] | single4date = December 7, 1992 }} }} '''''Ten''''' is the first [[Album|studio album]] by [[Pearl Jam]], an American [[Rock music|rock]] band. It was released on August 27, 1991 by [[Epic Records]]. The album was made after [[Mother Love Bone]], the band that [[Stone Gossard]] and [[Jeff Ament]] were in, broke up. Gossard and Ament started making music with a guitarist named Mike McCready, and a drummer named Matt Cameron. They made a [[Demo (music)|demo tape]] with five songs on it. The demo was given to [[Eddie Vedder]] and Dave Krusen, two other [[Musician|musicians]]. Both of them joined the band. Many of the songs on ''Ten'' were ones that the band already made. However, Vedder sang different words for them for the album.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Letkemann|first=Jessica|title=Momma-Son and the Making of Pearl Jam {{!}} Northwest Passage|url=https://www.revolutioncomeandgone.com/articles/11/momma-son-and-the-making-of-pearl-jam.php|access-date=2022-11-23|website=www.revolutioncomeandgone.com}}</ref> ''Ten'' was not very popular when it was released. It got more popular in 1992, when it was number two on the [[Billboard charts|''Billboard'