Robbed hit of the week 5/3/21 - Pearl Jam's "Wishlist"...
"Wishlist" - Pearl Jam
from the album Yield (1998)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #47
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the rock group Pearl Jam, whose fifth studio album Yield had yielded them a top-40 pop hit/#1 rock radio hit with "Given To Fly". The second commercial retail single from the set would be "Wishlist", written by lead singer Eddie Vedder and produced by the band with Brendan O'Brien. The song was different from most of their other work in being off the cuff, with Vedder riffing on things he likes/wants as the band plays behind. The result pleased their fans enough to get major play on rock and pop radio, even without a video for MTV...
While "Wishlist" made the top ten on both the Mainstream and Alternative Rock radio charts, both at #6, the single stopped below the top-40 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in May of 1998. The song did score the Seattle rockers their first charting hit on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 format, coming in at #39. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in the UK at #30.
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Here's Pearl Jam performing the song on Letterman in 1998...
and lastly, at the Rock Am Ring Festival in 2000...
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