"Just Breathe" | ||||||||||||||||
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Single by Pearl Jam | ||||||||||||||||
from the album Backspacer | ||||||||||||||||
A-side | "Got Some" | |||||||||||||||
Released | October 31, 2009 | |||||||||||||||
Format | CD single, Vinyl, Digital download | |||||||||||||||
Recorded | 2009 | |||||||||||||||
Genre | Folk rock | |||||||||||||||
Length | 3:34 | |||||||||||||||
Label | Monkeywrench | |||||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Eddie Vedder | |||||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Brendan O'Brien | |||||||||||||||
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"Just Breathe" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam. "Just Breathe" was released on October 31, 2009 as the second single from the band's ninth studio album, Backspacer (2009). The single was released as a double A-side along with the song "Got Some". The song was triggered by a chord from "Tuolumne", an instrumental from Eddie Vedder's soundtrack for the 2007 film Into the Wild. It peaked at number five on the Billboard Rock chart and number six on the Billboard Alternative chart, which makes it the band's highest-charting follow-up single since "Wishlist" in 1998.
On January 22, 2014, "Just Breathe" was certified platinum in digital sales by the RIAA. It is the band's first platinum-certified song.
The song has been featured in several TV shows and movies including Castle, One Tree Hill, Brothers & Sisters, Life as We Know It, The Blacklist, Grey's Anatomy, The Night Shift, and the documentaries Buck and Gleason.