Editing Superunknown (section)

==Release and commercial performance==
''Superunknown'' was Soundgarden's breakthrough album, earning the band international recognition. Upon its release in March 1994, ''Superunknown'' debuted at number one on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] album chart,<ref>[https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,301554,00.html "Changing of the Garden"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830000510/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C301554%2C00.html |date=August 30, 2008 }}. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''. March 25, 1994. Retrieved on May 2, 2004.</ref> and eventually closed the year as the 13th best-selling album of 1994, with 2.5 million copies sold.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57 |title=Best Selling Records of 1994 |magazine=Billboard |date=January 21, 1995 |volume=107 |number=3 |issn=0006-2510 |page=57 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905203802/https://books.google.com/books?id=uAsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57 |archive-date=September 5, 2015 }}</ref> The album has been certified six times platinum by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] in the United States,<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> three times platinum in Canada and Australia,<ref name="cria">{{cite web
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}}</ref> two times platinum in Sweden,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hitlistan.se/ |title=Superunknown Certified Awards |publisher=[[IFPI|IFPI Den Svenske Hitlista]] |access-date=February 19, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727130120/http://www.hitlistan.se/ |archive-date=July 27, 2010 }}</ref> platinum in the United Kingdom,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx |title=Superunknown Certified Awards |publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]] |access-date=February 19, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625075145/http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx |archive-date=June 25, 2014 }}</ref> and gold in the Netherlands and Italy.

As of 2019 ''Superunknown'' has sold 3.9 million copies in United States according to Nielsen.<ref name="Soundscan Sales">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8501656/soundgarden-superunknown-songs-ranked|title=Soundgarden's 'Superunknown' at 25: All the Songs Ranked Worst to Best|last=Goodman|first=William|magazine=Billboard|date=March 8, 2019|access-date=March 9, 2019}}</ref> The album spawned the EP ''[[Songs from the Superunknown]]'' and the [[CD-ROM]] ''Alive in the Superunknown'', both released in 1995.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Atwood |first1=Brett |title=Soundgarden Vid Takes CD Plus Out of the Unknown |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7g4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA96 |access-date=April 13, 2022 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=January 27, 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610122445/https://books.google.com/books?id=7g4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA96& |archive-date=June 10, 2016}}</ref>

===20th-anniversary reissues===
The 20th-anniversary reissue of "Superunknown" was made available in two deluxe versions. The Deluxe Edition was a 2-CD package featuring the remastered album along with disc two consisting of demos, rehearsals, B-sides and more. The Super Deluxe Edition was a 5-CD package featuring the remastered album, additional demos, rehearsals and B-sides and the fifth disc is the album mixed in Blu-ray Audio 5.1 Surround Sound. The Super Deluxe Edition was packaged in a hardbound book with a lenticular cover, liner notes by [[David Fricke]] and newly reimagined album artwork designed by Josh Graham. It also featured never-before-seen band photography by Kevin Westerberg. A 2-LP gatefold of the original 16 vinyl tracks remastered on 200-gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket was also made available. In addition, the ''Superunknown'' singles and associated b-sides with newly interpreted artwork sleeves by Josh Graham was reissued on [[Record Store Day]], April 19, 2014, as a set of five limited-edition 10-inch vinyl records."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/soundgarden-20th-anniversary-reissue-of-superunknown-projected-to-sell-10k-12k-first-week/#0irVwooSKFhcQ6HQ.99 |title=SOUNDGARDEN: 20th-Anniversary Reissue Of 'Superunknown' Projected To Sell 10K-12K First Week |work=Blabbermouth |date=June 15, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029195850/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/soundgarden-20th-anniversary-reissue-of-superunknown-projected-to-sell-10k-12k-first-week/ |archive-date=October 29, 2014 }}</ref>