"Dark Matter" and its tracks on the charts

BF25394
BF25394 Posts: 4,940
edited February 19 in The Porch
This post will be updated weekly.  Numbers below are the song's position on the referenced Billboard charts from week to week. Bolded numbers are peak positions. "?" means not yet published. "X" means the song exited the chart.

Updated on Tuesday, February 18, 2025:

Dark Matter (7 weeks)

Top Current Album Sales (2-16-21-22-44-44-42-X)
Indie Store Album Sales (2-7-8-10-21-15-X)
Top Album Sales (2-19-29-29-X)
Top Hard Rock Albums (1-10-21-24-X)
Billboard 200 (5-171-X)
Top Alternative Albums (1-20-X)
Top Rock & Alternative Albums (1-41-X)
Top Rock Albums (1-X)
Vinyl Albums (2-X)
Billboard Canadian Albums (9-93-X)

"Dark Matter" (26 weeks)

Canada Rock (10-3-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-5-5-6-8-9-10-10-11-16-27-29-X)
Mainstream Rock Airplay (17-6-3-1-1-1-1-4-5-7-11-16-17-23-27-26-28-37-39-X)
Rock & Alternative Airplay (6-1-2-1-1-2-3-3-3-5-6-10-19-21-26-25-32-48-X)
Hot Hard Rock Songs (3-1-2-2-2-3-2-3-5-4-4-9-14-21-24-X)
Alternative Airplay (18-10-10-10-9-7-7-6-6-6-10-18-25-29-35-37-X)
Adult Album Alternative (Triple A) (39-26-22-19-20-19-21-23-24-33-X)
Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (46-28-31-31-35-37-43-X-33-X)
Hot Alternative Songs (18-22-22-24-X)
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales (2-3-10-X)
Rock Digital Song Sales (8-14-X)

"Wreckage" (27 weeks)

Canada Rock (36-28-19-9-7-5-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-3-7-5-7-9)
Alternative Airplay (34-22-14-13-12-10-9-8-6-6-5-3-5-5-14-16-22-26-30-32-X)
Mainstream Rock Airplay (36-25-22-15-13-10-8-6-5-3-1-2-4-10-17-22-25-26-27-28-X)
Rock & Alternative Airplay (18-12-7-5-5-3-4-3-2-2-2-2-3-4-6-7-12-15-18-15-X)
Adult Album Alternative (Triple A) (40-22-15-11-10-7-6-6-3-3-3-3-2-2-1-3-8-14-23-27-X)
Hot Hard Rock Songs (1-4-4-4-5-10-8-8-6-6-6-5-7-6-9-13-13-18-18-19-X)
Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (28-41-46-43-X)
Hot Rock Songs (22-X)
Rock Digital Song Sales (15-X)
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales (3-X)
Hot Alternative Songs (23-X)

"Waiting for Stevie" (24 weeks)

Mainstream Rock Airplay (33-31-27-23-22-22-21-17-16-16-15-16-13-13-13-12-12-12-11-8-12-11-X)
Rock & Alternative Airplay (45-46-48-37-25-21-17-16-14-15-14-14-15-13-12-13-13-17-28-38-X)
Hot Hard Rock Songs (13-X-11-X-24-20-20-20-21-X)

"Running" (2 weeks)

Hot Hard Rock Songs (9-X-18-X)
Hard Rock Digital Song Sales (5-X)

"Scared of Fear"

Hot Hard Rock Songs (6-X)

"React, Respond"

Hot Hard Rock Songs (11-X)

"Won't Tell"

Hot Hard Rock Songs (12-X)

"Upper Hand"

Hot Hard Rock Songs (17-X)

"Setting Sun"

Hot Hard Rock Songs (22-X)

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Dark Matter debuted on all charts for the week ending May 4, 2024. Its first-week sales were 52,000 units, 24,000 units of which were vinyl. The eleven songs on the album totaled 9.33 million on-demand streams, which translates to 7,000 additional units under the Billboard 200 formula, bringing the total number of equivalent units to 59,000. (There were also a negligible number of "track-equivalent album units," i.e., paid downloads of individual tracks from the album, with one full unit credited for every ten paid downloads.)

"Dark Matter" debuted on all listed charts for the week ending February 24, 2024, except for the Adult Album Alternative (Triple A) and Hot Alternative Songs charts, where it debuted on charts for the week ending March 2, 2024. It re-entered the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart for the week ending May 4, 2024.

"Running" debuted on the charts for the week ending April 6, 2024. It re-entered the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart for the week ending May 4, 2024.

All other songs debuted on the charts for the week ending May 4, 2024, except:

"Wreckage" debuted on Canada Rock on the chart for the week ending June 8, 2024;
"Waiting for Stevie" debuted on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart for the week ending September 14, 2024;
"Waiting for Stevie" debuted on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart for the week ending October 5, 2024; and
"Waiting for Stevie" re-entered the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart for the week ending December 14, 2024, and again for the week ending January 4, 2025.

For comparison to Gigaton and its tracks, see https://community.pearljam.com/discussion/284234/gigaton-and-its-tracks-on-the-charts/p1.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,646
    edited February 2024
    BF25394 said:
    Here is where "Dark Matter" shows up on various Billboard charts in its first week of availability:

    No. 18, Alternative Airplay
    No. 17, Mainstream Rock Airplay
    No. 6, Rock & Alternative Airplay
    No. 10, Canada Rock
    No. 46, Hot Rock & Alternative Songs
    No. 8, Rock Digital Song Sales
    No. 3, Hot Hard Rock Songs
    No. 2, Hard Rock Digital Song Sales

    What this all boils down is that the song is off to a solid start at radio and had a nice tally of first-week digital downloads (although it will probably drop like a rock in the second week), but the song is not being streamed very much at all. 
    Yea rock songs don't stream well for the most part. And I don't mean like Zach Bryan because they typically put anything under "rock"
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  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,855
    Been hearing it on ESPN hockey nights and commercials

    radio here n there… my mainstream pj friends like it for what that’s worth
  • Haijay
    Haijay Posts: 439
    It gets better and better every listen, god damn PJ
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    I love it!  Got to be loud though.  If the volume is low, in the car, and people are talking, Dark Matter sounds strange in the background.  Sounds best loud, front and center.  
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • BSully
    BSully Indiana Posts: 1,501
    I got to share the song with my co-workers today and it went over well.
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,484
    Pearl Jam Lands First Rock & Alternative Airplay No. 1 With ‘Dark Matter’
    The song crowns the survey in just its second chart week.
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,667
    What song? 
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  • spankyMP
    spankyMP NY to NC to NH Posts: 2,019
    josevolution said:
    What song? 
    Dark Matter
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    demetrios said:
    Pearl Jam Lands First Rock & Alternative Airplay No. 1 With ‘Dark Matter’
    The song crowns the survey in just its second chart week.
    As mentioned in another thread, the tracking week runs from Friday to Thursday, so the song is getting the benefit of seven full days of tracking in its second week. It was No. 6 in its first week based on only three days of tracking. Both of these results are very positive indicators for the kind of response the song is getting.
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,484
    Haijay said:
    It gets better and better every listen, god damn PJ

    Yes it does. I'm also happy to hear my local radio stations playing it each day, more then once. 
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  • T-Bone 82
    T-Bone 82 Posts: 421
    https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/pearl-jam-dark-matter-number-1-rock-alternative-airplay-chart-1235613849/
    "Darkness comes in waves, tell me, why invite it to stay?"
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    I have updated the original post to reflect the information contained in the Chart Beat article linked by T-Bone 82 above. I have also revised the original post to mimic the formatting of my similar thread about Gigaton and to allow for continued updating, which will generally occur on Tuesdays.
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,484
    https://www.kshe95.com/real-rock-news/pearl-jam-earns-new-billboard-chart-feat-with-dark-matter-single/


  • T-Bone 82
    T-Bone 82 Posts: 421
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/02/26/pearl-jams-first-single-in-years-debuts-on-eight-different-billboard-charts-at-once/?sh=470df87f2ef4

    Here's another cool one from Forbes
    "Darkness comes in waves, tell me, why invite it to stay?"
  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    Awesome news! The song deserves it's success. It sounds like it could have been on the top half of Gigaton with the rest of the bangers! 
    Show me another band that has done this 35 years into their career. Heck Show me a band that is still together after that long. 
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    edited February 2024
    TJ25487 said:

    Show me another band that has done this 35 years into their career. 

    Metallica: first album released in 1983, four no. 1 songs on Mainstream Rock chart since 2020, including two in 2023
    Red Hot Chili Peppers: first album released in 1984; no. 1 song on Rock chart in 2011 ("The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie")
    U2: first album released in 1980, no. 1 song on Triple-A chart in 2023 ("Atomic City")

    TJ25487 said:

    Show me a band that is still together after that long. 
    Rolling Stones
    Kiss
    The Who
    U2
    Metallica
    RHCP
    Duran Duran
    Aerosmith
    Def Leppard
    Eagles
    Iron Maiden
    The Cure

    I'm sure I'm forgetting some obvious ones.
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  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    BF25394 said:
    TJ25487 said:

    Show me another band that has done this 35 years into their career. 

    Metallica: first album released in 1983, four no. 1 songs on Mainstream Rock chart since 2020, including two in 2023
    Red Hot Chili Peppers: first album released in 1984; no. 1 song on Rock chart in 2011 ("The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie")
    U2: first album released in 1980, no. 1 song on Triple-A chart in 2023 ("Atomic City")

    TJ25487 said:

    Show me a band that is still together after that long. 
    Rolling Stones
    Kiss
    The Who
    U2
    Metallica
    RHCP
    Duran Duran
    Aerosmith
    Def Leppard
    Eagles
    Iron Maiden
    The Cure

    I'm sure I'm forgetting some obvious ones.
    So PJ is in good company. Just saw U2 at the Sphere in Vegas. Unbelievable! 
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,646
    You would have thought Mind Your Manners would have done this well. It did well. But not as well as Dark Matter is doing. Will be interesting to see if Dark Matter stays on the radio longer. It seems every new Pearl Jam song disappears after a few weeks. 
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