Billy Joel's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits
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Joel has also earned four No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, with his longest-leading, 1978's 52nd Street, reigning for eight weeks. On the Adult Contemporary chart, he has earned eight No. 1s, with 'The River of Dreams' ruling for a personal-best 12 weeks in 1993. He most recently made the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary with his comeback hit 'Turn the Lights Back On,' which reached No. 7 on the latter list in March 2024, becoming his 24th top 10.
The native New Yorker has won five Grammy Awards, including album of the year for 52nd Street in 1979 and both record and song of the year for 'Just the Way You Are' 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.
In honor of the icon — and upon the July 18 premiere of the two-part HBO/HBO Max documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes (named after his intimate piano ballad that rose to No. 37 on the Hot 100 in 1990) — Billboard looks at his biggest Hot 100 hits.
Notably, Joel solo-wrote each of the 25 songs below.
'I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was about 20,' Joel told Billboard in 2014. 'I said, 'OK, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs.' I just felt like I had something to write, and the advice I got from the music business people that I knew was, 'OK, now you should probably make an album of your songs.' Get a record deal, make an album. This just happened to coincide with the era of the singer-songwriter.
'So, I got a record deal,' Joel continued, 'made a record and then the advice I got was, 'Now you should go out on the road and perform and support the album.' So, I went out on tours, didn't get paid nothin', but played, and it kinda turned into this 'Billy Joel pop star/rock star guy,' which to this day is still kinda funny to me, because that's not at all what I set out to do. I'm not gonna disown it — it's the best job I ever had — but it ended up happening kind of randomly.'
Billy Joel's 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.
25. 'Piano Man'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 25Hot 100 peak date: April 20, 1974
24. 'She's Got a Way'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 23Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 23, 1982
23. 'Big Shot'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 14Hot 100 peak date: March 24, 1979
22. 'Pressure'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 20Hot 100 peak date: Nov. 20, 1982
21. 'Don't Ask Me Why'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 19Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 20, 1980
20. 'Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 17Hot 100 peak date: May 27, 1978
19. 'She's Always a Woman'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 17Hot 100 peak date: Oct. 14, 1978
18. 'Say Goodbye to Hollywood'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 17Hot 100 peak date: Nov. 7, 1981
17. 'This Is the Time'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 18Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 31, 1987
16. 'Keeping the Faith'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 18Hot 100 peak date: March 23, 1985
15. 'The Longest Time'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 14Hot 100 peak date: May 12, 1984
14. 'Modern Woman'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 10Hot 100 peak date: July 26, 1986
13. 'An Innocent Man'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 10Hot 100 peak date: Feb. 25, 1984
12. 'Allentown'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 17Hot 100 peak date: Feb. 5, 1983
11. 'A Matter of Trust'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 10Hot 100 peak date: Oct. 18, 1986
10. 'You're Only Human (Second Wind)'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 9Hot 100 peak date: Aug. 31, 1985
9. 'You May Be Right'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 7Hot 100 peak date: May 3, 1980
8. 'I Go to Extremes'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 6Hot 100 peak date: March 17, 1990
7. 'The River of Dreams'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 3Hot 100 peak date: Oct. 16, 1993
6. 'Tell Her About It'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 1 (one week)Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 24, 1983
5. 'Just the Way You Are'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 3Hot 100 peak date: Feb. 18, 1978
4. 'My Life'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 3Hot 100 peak date: Jan. 6, 1979
3. 'Uptown Girl'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 3Hot 100 peak date: Nov. 12, 1983
2. 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 1 (two weeks)Hot 100 peak date: Dec. 9, 1989
1. 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me'
Hot 100 peak position: No. 1 (two weeks)Hot 100 peak date: July 19, 1980
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