Tom Petty, Eric Clapton Claim Top Two Spots On US Chart

Tom Petty and Eric Clapton will have the top two albums in America this week.

Hits Daily Double has released their final projections for the week, based on samples across the retail world, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will most certainly have the first number 1 album of their career. Their Hypnotic Eye has a “sales index” (estimation of sales) of 126,197, more than twice the index of the next album on the chart. The highest that the group had ever gotten in the past was number 2 with 1979’s Damn the Torpedoes and 2010’s Mojo.

Projected for number 2, with a sales index of 58,503, is Eric Clapton and Friends’ The Breeze: An Appreciation of J.J. Cale. The album, which includes guest appearances from Petty on three cuts along with the likes of Mark Knopfler, John Mayer and Willie Nelson, will be Clapton’s highest charting album since 1992’s Unplugged.

The surprise for the week is projected for number 3, Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Volume 1, which includes eleven tracks from the seventies by Blue Suede, Raspberries, Norman Greenbaum, David Bowie, 10cc, the Jackson 5, the Runaways, Redbone, Rupert Homes and the Five Stairsteps along with a lone 60’s track by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Projections put it at just short of 57,000 in sales.

The only album that could break up the veteran artists trifecta is last week’s number 1, the debut album by Five Seconds of Summer, which has projected sales of 54,787.

The final album chart will be out on Thursday.

Tom Petty, Eric Clapton Claim Top Two Spots On US Chart

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