 Despite all the problems in its recording, "Siamese Dream" debuted at number ten on the "Billboard" 200 chart, and sold over four million copies in the U.S. alone.Alongside the band's mounting mainstream recognition, the band's reputation as careerists among their former peers in the independent music community was worsened.Indie rock band Pavement's 1994 song "Range Life" directly mocks the band in its lyrics, although Stephen Malkmus, lead singer of Pavement, has stated, "I never dissed their music.