The Deuce: Nevermind sold 6000 copies in the first week in the US. The label famously had low expectations. *

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Nevermind sold 6000 copies in the first week in the US. The label famously had low expectations. *

Posted by doubledown

on September 24, 2026, 12:00:39, in reply to "I was in college and remember people waiting in line to buy Nevermind at midnight"

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And it was immediately massive with everyone I knew. People were listening to the whole thing multiple times/day for a while.

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Nevermind blew up when kids showed up to music stores with gift cards that grandma gave them for Christmas. Billboard had moved to SoundScan, so they had real sales data. Then the movie Singles happened, which put Pearl Jam and Soundgarden on the map. Radio stations changed formats virtually overnight. Without SoundScan, grunge and rap probably don't achieve the mainstream success they experienced at the time. Radio programming directors would have happily ignored them and kept on with the status quo.

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But was it the best day? An investigation:

http://www.theringer.com/2021/09/24/music/biggest-album-release-dates-in-history-nirvana-tribe-rhcp

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35 years ago today. We are very old, but were eating good as utes across America. - Warrin'_Illini Yesterday, 10:24:52

Never listened to any of that trash* - JeffFrank 54 minutes ago
Nobody cared about Nevermind or Badmotorfinger when they were released. - doubledown Yesterday, 10:53:37
- Not really true. Ten was already platinum months before Singles was released - CanHartlebHireSnider Yesterday, 18:09:42
  - Singles came out the summer of 1992* - timmer 7 hours ago
    - Singles was released September 18 1992. So yes being literal it was summer - CanHartlebHireSnider 7 hours ago
- I was in college and remember people waiting in line to buy Nevermind at midnight - DT Yesterday, 11:45:04
  - Nevermind sold 6000 copies in the first week in the US. The label famously had low expectations. * - doubledown Yesterday, 12:00:39
- Point of Odor: Pearl Jam and Grunge blew up before Singles.... - KingTalkyTiki Yesterday, 10:58:23
  - I didn’t realize that Ten, Nevermind, and Badmotorfinger came out about a year before Singles. - Waka Yesterday, 12:05:54
  - They weren't laboring in anonymity or anything, there was definitely awareness of them. - doubledown Yesterday, 11:08:08
I'll be honest..I never got into the whole grunge scene. I was in Jr high in 91 - DanSaint Yesterday, 10:50:05
- I was all Grateful Dead all of the time then* - JeffFrank 53 minutes ago
- After years of utter dreck by Poison, music that wasn’t soulless and artificial was a revelation - DT 7 hours ago
- It’s heinous * - Jackie Yesterday, 12:00:02
  - You’re heinous. - Waka Yesterday, 12:12:01
    - LMFCO, thx buddy - Jackie Yesterday, 18:10:27
      - *fist bump* - Waka 2 hours ago
- Same here. I stayed with my 80s heavy metal/hair bands all the way heading into college in 93. - illinilosch Yesterday, 11:26:24

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