Into the Great Wide Open

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Into the Great Wide Open
Tom Petty ITGWO.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 2, 1991
Recorded1990−91
Studio
  • Rumbo Studio C (Canoga Park, California)
  • M.C. Studios
Genre
Length43:55
Label MCA
Producer
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers chronology
Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)
(1987)
Into the Great Wide Open
(1991)
Greatest Hits
(1993)
Tom Petty chronology
Full Moon Fever
(1989)
Into the Great Wide Open
(1991)
Greatest Hits
(1993)
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Learning to Fly"4:02
2."Kings Highway"Petty3:08
3."Into the Great Wide Open"
  • Petty
  • Lynne
3:43
4."Two Gunslingers"Petty3:09
5."The Dark of the Sun"
  • Petty
  • Lynne
3:23
6."All or Nothin'"
4:07
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."All the Wrong Reasons"
  • Petty
  • Lynne
3:46
2."Too Good to Be True"Petty3:59
3."Out in the Cold"
  • Petty
  • Lynne
3:40
4."You and I Will Meet Again"Petty3:42
5."Makin' Some Noise"
  • Petty
  • Lynne
  • Campbell
3:27
6."Built to Last"
  • Petty
  • Lynne
4:00
Total length:43:55

Spoken interlude

As a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "Hello, CD Listeners" interlude on compact disc releases of Full Moon Fever , on cassette tape releases of this album there is a brief spoken interlude at the end of Side One. In it, Petty instructs cassette listeners how to properly flip over their tape and prepare it for Side Two.

Personnel

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Additional musicians

Additional personnel [17]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Into the Great Wide Open
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [34] 2× Platinum200,000^
Germany (BVMI) [35] Gold250,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [36] Gold7,500
Sweden (GLF) [37] Platinum100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [38] Gold25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [39] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [40] 2× Platinum2,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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