Tom Petty – Registers Highest Ever Sales – Enters Charts at #4
“Highway Companion,” the brand new album from TOM PETTY, enters Billboard’s Top 200 Albums sales chart next week at #4 making it his highest-ever chart debut. The chart debut comes as TOM PETTY and his band The Heartbreakers celebrate 30 years together with their massive, star-studded “Highway Companion” North American concert tour.
Produced by Jeff Lynne with TOM PETTY and Heartbreaker Mike Campbell, “Highway Companion” is TOM PETTY’s third solo outing and 18th album overall. The album’s lead single, “Saving Grace,” is currently #1 at Triple A, #1 at Classic Rock, and Top 10 at Mainstream Rock radio formats.
“Highway Companion” has also won plaudits from critics who have praised its “surefire hooks” (New York Times) and “instantly singable tracks” (Boston Globe) and deemed it “a journey of considerable self-assessment” (Los Angeles Times), “one of [his] finest albums” (Associated Press), “his most personal and heartfelt [work] to date (Billboard), “a true return to form” (Entertainment Weekly) that “may be his best disc in years” (Washington Post).
It’s been 30 years since TOM PETTY and The Heartbreakers unleashed their self-titled debut album. In the those decades, Petty – both as a solo artist and leader of the band – has sold more than 50-million records worldwide, earned 16 Grammy nods, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, garnered multiple MTV Video Music Awards (including Video Vanguard honors), joined Hollywood’s Walk of Fame and won countless other laurels.
More importantly, however, Petty has written and recorded such timeless classics as “American Girl,” “Refugee,” “Breakdown,” “The Waiting,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” “Free Fallin’,” “I Won’t Back Down,” “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” and “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” among countless others. One journalist noted, “Petty’s musical integrity and craft, not to mention his seemingly effortless flair for rapturous hooks, have remained constant despite ever-shifting musical trends, and his multi-generational fan base continues to swell.” In the words of Rolling Stone’s Alan Light, “The man’s consistency is pretty astounding.”
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