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• MEMBERS: Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron, Ben Shepherd
• BIGGEST POP SINGLE: "Black Hole Sun" (1994)
• BIGGEST LP: Superunknown (1994)
• VH1: '100 Greatest Hard Rock Artists': 14
• GRAMMY AWARDS: 2

• October 31: Soundgarden released Ultramega OK.
  Tracks: "Flower" - "All Your Lies" - "665" - "Beyond The Wheel" - "667" - "Mood For Trouble" - "Circle Of Power" - "He Didn't" - "Smokestack Lightning" - "Nazi Driver" - "Head Injury" - "Incessant Mace" - "One Minute Of Silence"
  available for download at Amazon.mp3

• September 5: Soundgarden released Louder Than Love.
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 108
  Tracks: "Ugly Truth" - "Hands All Over" - "Gun" - "Power Trip" - "Get On The Snake" - "Full Of Kevin's Mom" - "Loud Love" - "I Awake" - "No Wrong No Right" - "Uncovered" - "Big Dumb Sex" - "Full On" (Reprise)
  available for download at Amazon.mp3

• February 22: Soundgarden were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance (Ultramega OK).

• May 11: The compilation of the band's first 2 EPs Screaming Life / Fopp was released.
  Tracks: "Hunted Down" - "Entering" - "Tears To Forget" - "Nothing To Say" - "Little Joe" - "Hand Of God" - "Kingdom Of Come" - "Swallow My Pride" - "Fopp" - "Fopp" (F***** Up Heavy Dub Mix)
  available for download at Amazon.mp3

• October 8: Soundgarden released Badmotorfinger.
  US: 2x Platinum
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 39
  Tracks: "Rusty Cage" - "Outshined" - "Slaves & Bulldozers" - "Jesus Christ Pose" - "Face Pollution" - "Somewhere" - "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" - "Room A Thousand Years Wide" - "Mind Riot" - "Drawing Files" - "Holy Water" - "New Damage"
  available for download at Amazon.mp3

• February 25: Soundgarden were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance (Badmotorfinger).

• March 6: Badmotorfinger was certified gold.

• January 20: Badmotorfinger was certified platinum.

• February 24: Soundgarden were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance "(Into The Void").

# 68 Singles Artist of the Year

• March 8: Soundgarden released Superunknown.
  US: 5x Platinum
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 1 (for 1 week)
  Rolling Stone: '500 Greatest Albums of All-Time': # 336
  Tracks: "Let Me Drown" - "My Wave" - "Fell On Black Days" - "Mailman" - "Superunknown" - "Head Down" - "Black Hole Sun" - "Spoonman" - "Limo Wreck" - "The Day I Tried To Live" - "Kickstand" - "Fresh Tendrils" - "4th Of July" - "Half" - "Like Suicide"
  available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
• March 26: Soundgarden topped the Billboard 200 LP chart for 1 week with Superunknown.

• June 3: Superunknown was certified platinum.

• July 16: Soundgarden topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for 7 weeks with "Black Hole Sun."
• July 23: Soundgarden hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Black Hole Sun."
  from the LP Superunkown
  ARC chart run: 40 - 34 - 28 - 25 - 21 - 17 - 15 - 12 - 10 - 7 - 6 - 18 - 35 - off
  available for download at Amazon.mp3

• August 2: Superunknown was certified 2x platinum.

• September 8: The video for "Black Hole Sun" won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Metal/Hard Rock Video.
• September 17: Soundgarden hit the Top 10 with "Black Hole Sun."

• October 18: Superunknown was certified 3x platinum.

• December 31: Soundgarden topped the Billboard Year-End charts with the Top Modern Rock Track ("Black Hole Sun").

• March 1: Soundgarden won 2 Grammy Awards including Best Hard Rock Performance ("Black Hole Sun") and Best Metal Performance ("Spoonman"), and were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album (Superunknown).

• March 19: Superunknown was certified 5x platinum.

• April 16: Badmotorfinger was certified 2x platinum.

• May 21: Soundgarden released Down On The Upside.
  US: Platinum
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 2
  Tracks: "Pretty Noose" - "Rhinosaur" - "Zero Chance" - "Dusty" - "Ty Cobb" - "Blow Up The Outside World" - "Burden In My Hand" - "Never Named" - "Applebite" - "Never The Machine Forever" - "Tighter & Tighter" - "No Attention" - "Switch Opens" - "Overfloater" - "An Unkind" - "Boot Camp"
  available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3

• August 14: Down On The Upside was certified platinum.
• August 31: Soundgarden topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 5 weeks with "Burden In My Hand."

• December 28: Soundgarden topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 4 weeks with "Blow Up The Outside World."

• February 26: Soundgarden were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance ("Pretty Noose").

• November 4: The compilation A-Sides was released.
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 63
  Tracks: "Nothing To Say" - "Flower" - "Loud Love" - "Hands All Over" - "Get On The Snake" - "Jesus Christ Pose" - "Outshined" - "Rusty Cage" - "Spoonman" - "The Day I Tried To Live" - "Black Hole Sun" - Fell On Black Days" - "Pretty Noose" - "Burden In My Hand" - "Blow Up The Outside World" - "Ty Cobb" - "Bleed Together"
  available for download at Amazon.mp3

• September 28: The compilation Telephantasm was released.
  US: Platinum
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 24
  Tracks: "Hunted Down" - "Hands All Over" - "Outshined" - "Rusty Cage" - "Birth Ritual" - "My Wave" - Spoonman" - "Black Hole Sun" - "Fell On Black Days" - "Burden In My Hand" - "Blow Up The Outside World" - "Black Rain"
  available for download at Amazon.mp3

• February 13: Soundgarden were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance ("Black Rain").

• March 22: Soundgarden released the live LP Live On I-5.
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 47
  Live Tracks: "Spoonman" - "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" - "Let Me Drown" - "Head Down" - "Outshined" - "Rusty Cage" - "Burden In My Hand" - "Helter Skelter" - "Boot Camp" - "Nothing To Say" - "Slaves And Bulldozers" - "Dusty" - "Fell On Black Days" - "Search And Destroy" - "Ty Cobb" - "Black Hole Sun" - "Jesus Christ Pose"
  available for download at Amazon.mp3

• November 13: Soundgarden released King Animal.
  Tracks: "Been Away Too Long" - "Non-State Actor" - "By Crooked Steps" - "A Thousand Days Before" - "Blood On The Valley Floor" - "Bones Of Birds" - "Taree" - "Attrition" - "Black Saturday" - "Halfway There" - "Worse Dreams" - "Evelid's Mouth" - Rowing"
  Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 5
  Rolling Stone:
  available for download at Amazon.mp3

• December 1: Soundgarden topped the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart with King Animal.

• November 24: Soundgarden released the box set Echo Of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across The Path.

• March 10: Soundgarden released Ultramega Ok.
  Tracks: "Flower" - "All Your Lies" - "665" - "Beyond The Wheel" - "667" - "Mood For Trouble" - "Circle Of Power" - "He Didn't" - "Smokestack Lightning" - "Nazi Driver" - Head Injury" - "Incessant Mace" - "One Minute Of Silence"

• May 17: Chris Cornell died at the age of 52. His death was ruled a suicide.

• February 10: Chris Cornell posthumously won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance (Chris Cornell).

• April 3: Chris Cornell was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Rock Performance ("Nothing Compares 2 U") and Best Rock Album (No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1).