Album
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Album
Hard Promises
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
- Peak position
- #5
- Weeks on chart
- 31
Hard Promises (1981) is a Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers album in the RetroVerse archive.
Why this album mattered
Hard Promises (1981) is a Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #5 and charted for 31 weeks. Major singles from the album include "The Waiting".
The music
1 The Waiting
- 2
A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me)
- 3
Nightwatchman
- 4
Something Big
- 5
Kings Road
- 6
Letting You Go
- 7
A Thing About You
- 8
Insider
- 9
The Criminal Kind
- 10
You Can Still Change Your Mind
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
- May 23, 1981#23
An album monster — 31 weeks on chart with a peak at #5, the kind of run that defines an era. Entered at #23, climbed rapidly for 10 weeks to reach #5, then spent 11 weeks inside the Top 10 and fell quickly across 31 weeks on the chart.
The songs behind the run
Breakout songs
The album’s tracks with chart history. Open a song to follow its full journey.
Similar chart journeys
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Album facts
- Singles"The Waiting"
- ArtistTom Petty And The Heartbreakers
- Year1981