Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Into The Great Wide Open RIAA Gold Album Award America The track became a #1

The track became a #1 hit Billboard Country chart

That makes this award 37 years old

which was released in January 1976

Doug Ingle reportedly wrote the song while drinking a gallon of "Red Mountain" wine

A unique feature of this award is that it has a slot in which a USB drive containing a digital copy of the single was originally located

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Into The Great Wide Open RIAA Gold Album Award America The track became a #1RIAA Gold Album Award for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers album Into The Great Wide Open, which was released on July 2, 1991. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on Sept. 6, 1991 for 500,000 copies sold. Remember Tom Petty (1950 2017) with this award. Produced by Petty and ELO's Jeff Lynne, the album went to #13 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and #3 on the UK Albums chart. The single "Learning To Fly" reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks while