Question:  When was Matchbox 20's multi-platinum debut album released?

Context articles: Hootie Mack
Don't Play with Matches
Long Day
Yourself or Someone Like You
Back 2 Good
Joss Stone
Paul Staveley O'Duffy
Rosemary's Sons
Real World (Matchbox Twenty song)
3AM (Matchbox Twenty song)

Hootie Mack is the second studio album released by R&B group, Bell Biv DeVoe.
 It was released on June 6, 1993 through MCA Records and featured production from the group itself and some of R&B's top producers such as Chris Stokes, L.A. Reid and Babyface.
 As the follow-up to the group's 4x multi-platinum debut album, "Poison", expectations were high.
 Although "Hootie Mack" wasn't as successful as Poison, however, the album peaked at 19 on the "Billboard" 200 and 6 on the Top R&B Albums.
 Two singles made it to the charts "Something In Your Eyes" and "Above the Rim", the former making it to 38 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
 The album was certified gold on August 25, 1993.
Don't Play with Matches is the debut album of the American Alternative rock band Tabitha's Secret.
 The tracks were recorded in 1993-1995, although the album was released in 1997.
 It is thought that it was released to capitalise on the popularity of Rob Thomas's next band Matchbox 20's album "Yourself Or Someone Like You".
 The songs "3 A.M." and "Tired" were both rerecorded by Matchbox 20.
"Long Day" is the first single and second track from Matchbox 20's debut album "Yourself or Someone Like You".
 The cover of the single features a parody of a Diamond Matches box.
Yourself or Someone Like You is the debut studio album by American rock band Matchbox 20, released in 1996.
 The album features a sound similar to traditional rock sound and post-grunge.
 The album features themes of adolescence, loneliness, psychological abuse, humiliation, depression, anger, and alcoholism.
 The album sold several million copies in the U.S and was certified Diamond, and it was also certified multi-platinum in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
 To date, the album has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.
"Back 2 Good" is a song by Matchbox 20, released as the fifth single from their multi-platinum debut album "Yourself or Someone Like You".
 This song would prove to be their biggest hit song on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart from "Yourself or Someone Like You", peaking at number 24 in 1998 since their more successful prior hits, "Push" and "3 a.m." failed to hit the Hot 100 and only peaked on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and "Real World" barely made the top 40 on the Hot 100 at number 38.
 The song was not successful on the rock charts as it failed to chart on any because the song was considered too light for both rock and alternative radio stations with the song only having success on both pop and adult contemporary stations.
 The song was written by lead singer Rob Thomas and producer Matt Serletic, and is about a romantic relationship that seems to have reached its end, much to the chagrin of the singer.
Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English singer, songwriter and actress.
 She rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, "The Soul Sessions", which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist.
 Her second album, the similarly multi-platinum "Mind Body & Soul" (2004), topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit "You Had Me", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date.
 Both the album and single received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2004, was ranked fifth as a predicted breakthrough act of 2004.
 She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart.
 Stone's third album, "Introducing Joss Stone", released in March 2007, achieved gold record status by the RIAA and yielded the second-ever highest debut for a British female solo artist on the "Billboard" 200, and became Stone's first top five album in the US.
Paul O'Duffy (born 1963, London) is a British record producer, composer, mixer.
 He is best known for producing Swing Out Sister's Grammy-nominated multi-platinum debut album, for his BMI nomination as 'Producer of the Year' in 1987, his work with John Barry and his work with Amy Winehouse, which resulted in his co-writing one of the tracks on her multi-platinum album "Back to Black".
 In 2015, Paul co-wrote with XL Recordings' artist "Låpsley", with two of his co-writes/productions featuring on her 2016 debut album "Long Way Home"
Rosemary's Sons is a Dutch band which makes music described as mainstream pop/rock and rootsrock.
 Influences like Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Gin Blossoms, Aerosmith, CSNY, Matchbox 20, and John Hiatt are sometimes apparent but they aren't in the way of the band's own sound.
 The band formed in 1998.
 They recorded a demo album under the title Misery Loves Company which gained them attention of several music labels.
 With their official debut album on Warner Music, All In Hand (2002) they scored a minor hit with the single Shine which featured Dutch country/pop singer Ilse deLange.
 In 2005, they released their follow-up St. Eleanor's Park on V2 Music.
 Currently, they are recording their 3rd official album, with the working title The Others.
"Real World" is a song by American alternative rock group Matchbox 20.
 It was released in June 1998 as the fourth single from their debut album, "Yourself or Someone Like You".
"3AM" (written "3 am" on the album and "3 AM" on the single) is the third single and the third track from Matchbox 20's debut album, "Yourself or Someone Like You".
 It topped the Canadian "RPM" record charts in early 1998.