The album was a breakthrough for Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was their first top 10 album rising to #2 for seven weeks and kept from #1 by Pink Floyd's "The Wall" on the Billboard albums chart. Tom Petty's response to Westwood One about being anchored at #2 was "I love Pink Floyd but I hated them that year". It yielded two songs that made the top 15 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart, "Don't Do Me Like That" (#10) and "Refugee" (#15). Thanks to the new co-producer Jimmy Iovine, "Damn the Torpedoes" proved to be a major leap forward in production.