Runnin' Down a No. 1: Tom Petty Finally Earns Top Spot on Albums Chart

Tom Petty has finally ran down the dream of snagging a chart-topping album

None of Petty's first 12 albums — the first of which came out in 1976 — with The Heartbreakers or his three solo efforts ever reached No. 1 on Billboard's album chart. But this week, his 13th record, Hypnotic Eye, achieved what those other albums could not

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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' Hypnotic Eye tops the Billboard 200 chart with 131,000 copies sold in seven days since its debut, triumphing over an album from Eric Clapton & Friends (61,000) and the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack (60,000). Read more...

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