Billy Joel has had 33 Top 40 hits and 23 Grammy nominations since signing his first solo recording contract in 1972. In 1990, he was presented with a Grammy Legend Award. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992, Joel was presented with the Johnny Mercer Award, the organization’...
Billy Joel’s stats are staggering. He’s had 33 songs in the Top 40, which accounts for about a quarter of everything he’s written and recorded. Most of those charted in the era when you had to sell alotof records to get there, too. And though it’s been three decades since Joe...
Billy Joel has had 33 Top 40 hits and 23 Grammy nominations since signing his first solo recording contract in 1972. He received the Recording Industry Association of America Diamond Award, presented for albums that have sold more than 10 million copies, for his "Greatest Hits Volume I and ...
Fans can expect many of Joel’s 33 Top 40 hits, all of which he has written himself, beginning with “Piano Man” (1973). He’s one of the best-selling live performers of our time. In January 2014, Joel began Madison Square Garden’s first-ever music franchise performing one show at...
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Joel’s songs have acted as personal and cultural touchstones for millions of people across five decades. Joel’s string of 33 Top 40 hits, all of which Joel has written himself, began with 1973’s autobiographical "Piano Man". Written while Joel was playing in a Los Angeles lounge. In ...
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; he’s piled up 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote singlehandedly. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 100 million records worldwide. He was inducted ...
Joel’s songs have acted as personal and cultural touchstones for millions of people across five decades. Joel’s string of 33 Top 40 hits, all of which Joel has written himself, began with 1973’s autobiographical ‘Piano Man’. Written while Joel was playing in a Los Angeles lounge. In...
The Stranger is the reason we know who Billy Joel is. Before the album, his fourth for Columbia and fifth as a solo artist, Joel had two Top 40 songs: “Piano Man,” about a guy (Joel) who got stuck playing bar tunes to a bunch of drunks, and “The Entertainer,” about a guy...
Billy Joel is a 6-time Grammy Award winner and one of the best-selling musicians in history: he has had 33 Top 40 hits and hisGreatest Hitscompilation album is one of the best-selling albums in the US. Debby Wong / Shutterstock.com ...