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 10x Platinum (Diamond Award) by the RIAA on November 13, 2003.
The single ˝Mary Jane’s Last Dance˝ became one of Petty’s most popular songs, reaching #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #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 1989’s Full Moon Fever were included; despite the album’s technical status as a Tom Petty solo album, it contained contributions from several members from the Heartbreakers, thus legitimizing its inclusion on this compilation.
As of September 2011, Greatest Hits had sold 7,464,000 copies in the United States, making it Tom Petty’s best-selling output.
The U.K. release also includes the track ˝Anything That’s Rock ’n’ Roll,˝ originally from the album Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as track 3, with all subsequent tracks in the same order.
A remastered version was released on May 20, 2008, replacing ˝Something in the Air˝ with ˝Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around˝, Petty’s duet with Stevie Nicks from her 1981 album Bella Donna.
The album photos replaced the ˝Wildflowers˝ and ˝Into the Great Wide Open˝ session photos with out-takes from the ˝You’re Gonna Get It!˝ album cover.
The original album is available for download on iTunes. It was also reissued in March 9, 2010 reverting back to the original 1993 tracklisting which includes ˝Something in the Air˝ (due to popular demand) and drops ˝Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around˝ while using the same cover art as the 2008 remaster.