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And the festival announcements and rumors continue to pile up: Radiohead, Jack Johnson, and Tom Petty are rumored to be headlining the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, which is slated to take place Aug. 22-24. At what point should we just say that Radiohead and Jack Johnson are co-headlining a tour in August? [Workin' On A Mystery: Tom Petty Is This Week's Stealth Chart Star
Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts:
You won't find one of the biggest-selling artists of the past week on the Billboard Hot 100, because chart rules make him and his band ineligible. But one week after Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers brought their unassuming live act to the Super Bowl halftime show, they're all over the lists that count everything.
As we've explained before, Billboard segregates albums and singles that are more than a couple of years old from its flagship charts. But even if songs like "American Girl" aren't allowed to appear on the Hot 100, Petty had a very big week.
