{"id":173787,"date":"2025-07-18T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/billy-joels-biggest-billboard-hot-100-hits-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:11:15","slug":"billy-joels-biggest-billboard-hot-100-hits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/billy-joels-biggest-billboard-hot-100-hits-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel\u2019s Biggest Billboard Hot 100\u00a0Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tBilly Joel<\/a> introduced himself to the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> with the eventual classic, and one of his signature songs, \u201cPiano Man,\u201d which hit No. 25 in April 1974. He landed his first No. 1 in July 1980 with the celebratory \u201cIt\u2019s Still Rock and Roll to Me.\u201d His other two chart-toppers, among 13 top 10s and 33 top 40 hits: the \u201860s ode \u201cTell Her About It,\u201d in 1983, and the rapid-fire history lesson \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start the Fire,\u201d in 1989.<\/p>\n

\n\tJoel has also earned four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200<\/a>, with his longest-leading, 1978\u2019s 52nd Street<\/em>, reigning for eight weeks. On the Adult Contemporary chart, he has earned eight No. 1s, with \u201cThe River of Dreams\u201d ruling for a personal-best 12 weeks in 1993. He most recently made the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary with his comeback hit<\/a> \u201cTurn the Lights Back On,\u201d which reached No. 7 on the latter list in March 2024, becoming his 24th top 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe native New Yorker has won five Grammy Awards, including album of the year for 52nd Street<\/em> in 1979 and both record and song of the year for \u201cJust the Way You Are\u201d in 1978. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, became a Kennedy Center honoree in 2013 and was awarded the sixth-ever Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress in 2014.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn honor of the icon \u2014 and upon the July 18 premiere<\/a> of the two-part HBO\/HBO Max documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes<\/em> (named after his intimate piano ballad that rose to No. 37 on the Hot 100 in 1990) \u2014 Billboard<\/em> looks at his biggest Hot 100 hits.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, Joel solo-wrote each of the 25 songs below.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI started just concentrating on songwriting when I was about 20,\u201d Joel told Billboard<\/em><\/a> in 2014. \u201cI said, \u2018OK, you ain\u2019t gonna be a rock star, you don\u2019t look like a rock star, it probably ain\u2019t gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs.\u2019 I just felt like I had something to write, and the advice I got from the music business people that I knew was, \u2018OK, now you should probably make an album of your songs.\u2019 Get a record deal, make an album. This just happened to coincide with the era of the singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo, I got a record deal,\u201d Joel continued, \u201cmade a record and then the advice I got was, \u2018Now you should go out on the road and perform and support the album.\u2019 So, I went out on tours, didn\u2019t get paid nothin\u2019, but played, and it kinda turned into this \u2018Billy Joel pop star\/rock star guy,\u2019 which to this day is still kinda funny to me, because that\u2019s not at all what I set out to do. I\u2019m not gonna disown it \u2014 it\u2019s the best job I ever had \u2014 but it ended up happening kind of randomly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBilly Joel\u2019s Biggest Billboard Hot 100 hits chart is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100, through the July 19, 2025, ranking. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted to account for different chart turnover rates over various periods.<\/em><\/p>\n