Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
American Girl
Release Year:
1976
Rankings:
All-Time
#744 /
1970s
#161 /
1976
#13
Genres:
Heartland Rock
,
Power Pop
Parent Genres:
Pop
,
Pop Rock
,
Rock
Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
1-1001
Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
No Order
Greil Marcus (USA) - STRANDED: "Treasure Island" Singles (1979)
No Order
Jim Beviglia (USA) - Breakdown: Tom Petty's 100 Best Songs (2013)
1
Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s (and Recommended Listening) (2016)
158
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA) - 500 Songs That Shaped Rock (1995)
No Order
Steve Crawford (USA) - 1,000 Essential Songs from the 1970s (2015)
11
TimeOut (USA) - 1000 Songs to Change Your Life (2008)
No Order
Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 1970s (2012)
157
Ultimate Classic Rock (USA) - Top 200 '70s Songs (2015)
No Order
WZLX (USA) - 1,007 Greatest Songs of All Time (2015)
820
BBC Radio 6 Music (UK) - Alternative Jukebox: 500 Extraordinary Tracks That Tell the Story of Alternative Music (2014)
No Order
Dave Thompson (UK) - 1000 Songs that Rock Your World (2011)
177
Sean Egan (USA) - 500 Songs You Need to Hear (2006)
No Order
Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Singles of the Year 1970-98 (1999)
17
Hartbeat! (Germany) - Top 100 Singles by 15 Critics (1997)
32
Musikexpress (Germany) - The 700 Best Songs of All Time (2014)
492
Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005)
No Order
Toby Creswell (Australia) - Rockwiz Decades: The Greatest Songs of Our Time (2015)
No Order
Mucchio Selvaggio (Italy) - 17 Critics and Their Top 50 Songs (2002)
99
End of Year Lists
NME (UK) - Singles of the Year
23