It’s also worth noting that Petty sold 1.2 million copies as a member of Traveling Wilburys and 250,000 as a member of Mudcrutch. 28, according to Nielsen Music, since the company started tracking sales in 1991. Petty’s best-selling studio album of the Nielsen era, Wildflowers, sold 3.2 million copies. Each album spent one week atop the ranking.ģ1.5 million: Certified equivalent album units by the Recording Industry Association of America. 15 of Petty’s albums were certified Gold by the RIAA. Of those Gold sets, eight reached Platinum status, and one - his Greatest Hits album with The Heartbreakers - was certified Diamond.Ģ0.3 million: In total, Tom Petty’s albums - both solo and with The Heartbreakers - have sold 20.2 million copies in the U.S. 1 titles: Highway Companion in 2006, Mojo in 2010 and Hypnotic Eye in 2014. 16 on the strength of 131,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week.ģ: Since the Top Rock Albums chart’s inception in 2006, Petty notched three No. The album spent one week atop the chart dated Aug.
Tom Petty's 20 Greatest Songs: Critic's Picksġ: Perhaps surprisingly, Petty only topped the Billboard 200 once, with his final full-length set Hypnotic Eye in 2014. Petty also notched three other charting albums with the Wilbury’s (two of which hit the top 10) and two more with Mudcrutch (both hit the top 10).
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While most of his albums were with The Heartbreakers, Petty charted three entries-1989’s Full Moon Fever (No. Petty scored two additional Hot 100 hits with the Traveling Wilburys.ġ1.9 million: Tom Petty’s songs sold 11.9 million digital song downloads in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music, through Sept. 28. (That sum combines both his solo efforts and work with The Heartbreakers.) Petty also sold 1 million digital tracks with the Traveling Wilburys and 116,000 with the band Mudcrutch.Ģ2: Tom Petty earned 22 entries on the Billboard 200 albums chart, 12 of which hit the chart’s top 10. 40. Eight entries were unaccompanied (billed as just “Tom Petty”), while the remaining 19 were with The Heartbreakers. 7).Ģ7: From 1977’s “Breakdown” to 2006’s “Saving Grace,” Petty scored 27 total entries on the Hot 100. “Breakdown” was his both his first Hot 100 hit, and first top 40 hit, peaking at No. 10 peak), then “Draggin’” and then “Free Fallin’” in 1990 (No. Petty never reached the summit of the Hot 100, but he reached the top 10 three times, with “Don’t Do Me Like That” in 1980 (No. 1 during his lifetime, “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” topped the list in 1994.ģ: The peak position of Petty’s highest-charting song on the Billboard Hot 100, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” with Stevie Nicks in 1981. 1 with “The Waiting” in 1981, and his final No. 1s: Van Halen (13), Three Days Grace (12) and Shinedown (11).
Only three acts in the chart’s 36-year history have more No. Additionally, Petty notched five top 10 hits as a member of the super group Traveling Wilburys.ġ0: Of Petty’s 28 top 10 hits on the Mainstream Rock airplay chart, 10 hit No. (He logged his top 10s between 19.) The act with the second-most top 10s, Van Halen, has 26. In honor of the late great rock icon, let’s take a look back at Petty’s career, by the numbers, on Billboard’s charts:Ģ8: Petty scored a record 28 top 10 hits on the Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart, more than any other act in the chart’s 36-year history. "Breakdown" (stereo edit) – 3:00 B.Tom Petty's Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 Hits It was released as a US-only single in July 1980 but did not chart.Ī. Petty wrote a third verse of the song specifically for Jones to record "It's OK if you must go / I'll understand if you don't / You say goodbye right now / I'll still survive somehow / Why should we let this drag on?" The song was edited from its full, 5:30 album version to a 3-minute-long track on single release. Jamaican singer Grace Jones recorded a reggae re-imagining of the song on her 1980 album Warm Leatherette. "Strangered in the Night" – 3:32 Chart performance Chart (1977–78)
"Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)" – 3:54Ī. Guests on the song's recording include guitarist Jeff Jourard, a common collaborator with the band in their early days, and Phil Seymour, who sings backing vocals.Ī. Their final take was seven to eight minutes long, but it was pared down to 2 minutes and 39 seconds on the album. At 2 AM, he gathered the Heartbreakers to join him in re-recording the song. He suggested that the lick should be used throughout the song, and Petty obliged. While playing it back one night, Tom Petty and Dwight Twilley, a friend of Phil Seymour, were in the studio, and Twilley enjoyed it. Initially, the song had lead guitarist Mike Campbell with a distinct guitar lick being played only near the end of the song. "Breakdown" was a song written and recorded for the band's debut album.
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