Leave it to good ol' Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers to go out and bite the arse of the big business that has become the modern American music industry. Check out this article from CNN.com and entertainment weekly... it's so true. Even with the supposed huge success of ATYCLB, it still didn't produce a number one single, still wasn't a number one album, and still only saw limited air play on Top 40 "popular" radio stations, i.e. Z-100 in New York, rather getting most of it's air play on the quote "modern rock" stations. Lemme know what ya think...
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/03/ew.hot.rock/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/03/ew.hot.rock/index.html