Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1993. It is Petty's best-selling album to date and was certified 12× Platinum by the RIAA on April 28, 2015. The single "Mary Jane's Last Dance" became one of Petty's most popular songs, reaching No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The other new song on the album is a cover of the Thunderclap Newman hit "Something in the Air". The album contains no songs from 1987's Let Me Up (I've Had Enough). However, three songs from Petty's 1989 solo album Full Moon Fever were included.
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Released | November 16, 1993 | |||
Recorded | 1976–1993 | |||
Genre | Rock, heartland rock | |||
Length | 65:44 | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Blender | [2] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | A−[3] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
Entertainment Weekly | A+[5] |
The Essential Rock Discography | 9/10[6] |
MusicHound | 4.5/5[7] |
Q | [8] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [9] |
On its original release in November 1993, the album debuted at No. 8 on Billboard 200,[10] and first peaked at No. 5 on the chart in February 1994.[11] It reached a new peak of No. 2 following Petty's death in 2017.[12]
The new tracks "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "Something in the Air" were the band's last recordings with drummer Stan Lynch.
In 2008, Greatest Hits was reissued by Geffen Records. This edition replaced "Something In The Air" with "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around", Petty's duet with Stevie Nicks from her 1981 album Bella Donna. The album's photos and artwork replaced the Wildflowers and Into the Great Wide Open session photos with outtakes from You're Gonna Get It!. In 2010 the album was once again reissued, this time reverting to the original 1993 track listing but keeping the artwork from the 2008 edition. In 2016 the album was made available on vinyl for the first time since 1993.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album/notes | Length |
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1. | "American Girl" | Tom Petty | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 1976 | 3:33 |
2. | "Breakdown" | Petty | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | 2:44 |
3. | "Listen to Her Heart" | Petty | You're Gonna Get It!, 1978 | 3:03 |
4. | "I Need to Know" | Petty | You're Gonna Get It! | 2:24 |
5. | "Refugee" | Petty, Mike Campbell | Damn the Torpedoes, 1979 | 3:21 |
6. | "Don't Do Me Like That" | Petty | Damn the Torpedoes | 2:42 |
7. | "Even the Losers" | Petty | Damn the Torpedoes | 3:38 |
8. | "Here Comes My Girl" | Petty, Campbell | Damn the Torpedoes | 4:25 |
9. | "The Waiting" | Petty | Hard Promises, 1981 | 4:00 |
10. | "You Got Lucky" | Petty, Campbell | Long After Dark, 1982 | 3:36 |
11. | "Don't Come Around Here No More" | Petty, David A. Stewart | Southern Accents, 1985 | 5:04 |
12. | "I Won't Back Down" | Petty, Jeff Lynne | Full Moon Fever, 1989 | 2:57 |
13. | "Runnin' Down a Dream" | Petty, Lynne, Campbell | Full Moon Fever | 4:23 |
14. | "Free Fallin'" | Petty, Lynne | Full Moon Fever | 4:15 |
15. | "Learning to Fly" | Petty, Lynne | Into the Great Wide Open, 1991 | 4:01 |
16. | "Into the Great Wide Open" | Petty, Lynne | Into the Great Wide Open | 3:44 |
17. | "Mary Jane's Last Dance" | Petty | New song | 4:33 |
18. | "Something in the Air" | Speedy Keen | Thunderclap Newman cover | 3:21 |
Total length: | 65:44 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album/notes | Length |
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3. | "Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll" | Petty | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers | 2:24 |
Total length: | 68:10 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album/notes | Length |
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18. | "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" | Petty, Campbell | Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna, 1981 | 4:03 |
Total length: | 66:26 |
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[46] | Gold | 35,000^ |
Germany (BVMI)[47] | Gold | 250,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[48] | 4× Platinum | 60,000‡ |
Norway (IFPI Norway)[49] | Gold | 25,000* |
Sweden (GLF)[50] | Gold | 50,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[51] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[52] | 12× Platinum | 12,000,000^ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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Europe | October 30, 1993 | MCA Records | double LP | MCA 10964 |
Cassette | MCC 10964 | |||
CD | MCD 10964 | |||
North America | November 16, 1993 | Cassette | MCAC 10813 | |
CD | MCAD 10813 | |||
May 20, 2008 | Geffen Records | B0010327-02 | ||
Europe | 1774395 |