Echo
by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Echo by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Year: 1999
Overall rank: 11,735th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 71 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1999 (175th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,870th)
Award Best albums of all time (11,735th)

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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers bestography

Echo is ranked 15th best out of 32 albums by Tom Petty on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Tom Petty is Full Moon Fever which is ranked number 532 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,287.

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers album bestography « Higher ranked (11,712th)
The Last DJ
This album (11,735th)
Echo
Lower ranked (12,345th) »
Wildflowers & All The Rest

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Echo track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 11,735th | 1990s rank: 1,870th | 1999 rank: 175th

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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 71 votes)
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75/100
 
02/06/2026 11:21 cicadelic  Ratings distribution  12,99573/100
 
85/100
 
09/13/2025 20:20 ekingshill  Ratings distribution  85274/100
 
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05/01/2025 20:24 jokerman1965  Ratings distribution  12083/100
 
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03/27/2025 10:00 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  24,73564/100
 
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05/06/2024 13:50 asimpkins  Ratings distribution  3,05170/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 72.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.3.

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From 02/09/2019 14:42 | #231631
I'm surprised how little love this one gets here. It's Petty's last classic and just a really good album through and through. He was going through a lot of stuff here and it shows but I'd put it up there with his very best work.
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From 03/02/2013 02:56 | #66622
Tom Petty finished out a great decade of work with his 4th classic album in ten years. This one doesn't hold up to comparisons with Wildflowers, but it's on par with Full Moon Fever and Into the Great Wide Open.. With 15 tracks, this one is big on both quality and quantity. For favorite tracks, I'd have to go with "Lonesome Sundown" "Room at the Top" and the title track.
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