Billy Joel

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Country: US
Birth: 1949-05-09
Active: Yes

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Genre: Pop Rock, Rock And Roll, Soft Rock, Contemporary Classical Music

On-demand audio streams B+

Monthly listeners 53.4m 17

Lead streams 12.3b 15

Feat streams 17.6m 1

Monthly revenue $612.3k 15

Sales data A

CSPC units 154.4m 17

Pure albums 131.6m 18

Physical singles 36.9m 16

Digital singles 21.0m 12

Spotify statistics B

Lead streams 7.4b 15

Feat streams 10.7m 1

Monthly listeners 31.8m 17

Followers 7.0m 12

100m+ tracks 13 10

Popularity 81 15

Followers / Listeners 0.2 4

Replay value 2.7 10

Trends & Indicators B

Daily streams 3.1m 13

Daily listeners +/- -72.9k 10

Daily followers +/- 6.8k 15

Monthly streams 86.2m 13

Monthly listeners +/- -116.8k 10

Weekly followers +/- 28.4k 14

Trend 1.2 11

Globalness 39.0 14

Monthly listeners map

Below map represents the 50 cities where the artist has the most Spotify monthly listeners.

Artist career totals

All-Time Rank	Studio albums (EAS)	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Total EAS
31	91,400,000	40,235,000	36,900,000	21,000,000	8,549,000 (06/15/25)	154,405,000

Albums statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

artist_spotify_id	#	Album	Studio albums (EAS)	sales_update_date	Other LPs (EAS)	Physical singles (units sold)	Digital singles (units sold)	Streams	Streams increase	Total EAS	valid_as_of	streams_updated_value	album_id
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	1	Cold Spring Harbor	1,100,000	03.11.21	2,007,000	60,000 (200,000)	60,000 (400,000)	100,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 40 LD: 40	3,327,000	20,250,615	100,000	1,514
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	2	Piano Man	6,700,000	03.11.21	10,558,000	330,000 (1,100,000)	600,000 (4,000,000)	1,227,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 450 LD: 770	19,415,000	20,250,615	1,227,000	1,515
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	3	Streetlife Serenade	1,700,000	03.11.21	433,000	150,000 (500,000)	135,000 (900,000)	41,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 10 LD: 20	2,459,000	20,250,615	41,000	1,516
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	4	Turnstiles	2,900,000	03.11.21	3,083,000	240,000 (800,000)	150,000 (1,000,000)	257,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 100 LD: 120	6,630,000	20,250,615	257,000	1,517
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	5	The Stranger	15,300,000	03.11.21	7,287,000	1,665,000 (5,550,000)	675,000 (4,500,000)	2,300,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 1,140 LD: 1,820	27,227,000	20,250,615	2,300,000	1,518
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	6	52nd Street	13,300,000	03.11.21	1,770,000	1,410,000 (4,700,000)	150,000 (1,000,000)	600,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 270 LD: 590	17,230,000	20,250,615	600,000	1,519
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	7	Glass Houses	11,000,000	03.11.21	2,322,000	1,380,000 (4,600,000)	180,000 (1,200,000)	494,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 210 LD: 230	15,376,000	20,250,615	494,000	1,520
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	8	The Nylon Curtain	4,900,000	03.11.21	1,037,000	450,000 (1,500,000)	75,000 (500,000)	131,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 50 LD: 50	6,593,000	20,250,615	131,000	1,521
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	9	An Innocent Man	13,000,000	03.11.21	6,578,000	2,265,000 (7,550,000)	510,000 (3,400,000)	1,593,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 700 LD: 770	23,946,000	20,250,615	1,593,000	1,522
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	10	The Bridge	4,400,000	03.11.21	338,000	615,000 (2,050,000)	45,000 (300,000)	89,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 30 LD: 40	5,487,000	20,250,615	89,000	1,523
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	11	Storm Front	7,900,000	03.11.21	3,586,000	915,000 (3,050,000)	360,000 (2,400,000)	792,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 320 LD: 420	13,553,000	20,250,615	792,000	1,524
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	12	River Of Dreams	9,000,000	03.11.21	1,107,000	840,000 (2,800,000)	135,000 (900,000)	217,000 (06/15/25)	Av.: 80 LD: 100	11,299,000	20,250,615	217,000	1,525
6zFYqv1mOsgBRQbae3JJ9e	13	Orphan	200,000	03.11.21	129,000	750,000 (2,500,000)	75,000 (500,000)	55,000 (11/03/21)	N/A	1,209,000	20,250,615	55,000	1,628

'Av.' stands for Average, 'LD' for Last Day.

As a reminder:

Studio Album: sales of the original album
Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

Songs statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales generated through all formats.

#	Single	EAS
1	Piano Man [Piano Man]	15,940,000
2	Uptown Girl [An Innocent Man]	14,845,000
3	We Didn't Start the Fire [Storm Front]	9,080,000
4	It's Still Rock and Roll to Me [Glass Houses]	8,394,000
5	The River of Dreams [River Of Dreams]	7,960,000
6	She's Always a Woman [The Stranger]	7,837,000
7	My Life [52nd Street]	7,723,000
8	Just the Way You Are [The Stranger]	5,418,000
9	Honesty [52nd Street]	4,848,000
10	The Longest Time [An Innocent Man]	4,799,000

Studio album sales

Year	Title	Sales
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	1,100,000
1973	Piano Man	6,700,000
1974	Streetlife Serenade	1,700,000
1976	Turnstiles	2,900,000
1977	The Stranger	15,300,000
1978	52nd Street	13,300,000
1980	Glass Houses	11,000,000
1982	The Nylon Curtain	4,900,000
1983	An Innocent Man	13,000,000
1986	The Bridge	4,400,000
1989	Storm Front	7,900,000
1993	River Of Dreams	9,000,000

Compilation album sales

Physical singles sales

Year	Album	Single	Sales
1983	An Innocent Man	Uptown Girl	3,500,000
1977	The Stranger	Just the Way You Are	2,500,000
1978	52nd Street	My Life	2,400,000
1980	Glass Houses	It's Still Rock and Roll to Me	2,300,000
1993	River Of Dreams	The River of Dreams	2,300,000
1983	An Innocent Man	Tell Her About It	1,750,000
1989	Storm Front	We Didn't Start the Fire	1,700,000
1978	52nd Street	Honesty	1,500,000
1980	Glass Houses	You May Be Right	1,000,000
1983	An Innocent Man	An Innocent Man	1,000,000

Downloads and ringtones sales

Year	Album	Track	Sales
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	She's Got a Way	240,000
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	Everybody Loves You Now	67,500
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	You Can Make Me Free	7,500
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	Why Judy Why	7,500
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	Falling of the Rain	12,500
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	Turn Around	12,500
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	You Look So Good to Me	7,500
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	Tomorrow Is Today	15,000
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	Nocturne	20,000
1971	Cold Spring Harbor	Got to Begin Again	7,500

Most streamed songs (Top 20)

#	Seq.	Album	Song	Spotify total	Spotify daily	AOD total	EAS
1	130	An Innocent Man	Uptown Girl	1,189,197,676	590,931	2,034,045,326	1,356,030
2	30	Piano Man	Piano Man	1,032,450,677	676,314	1,765,939,773	1,177,293
3	82	The Stranger	Vienna	818,531,624	782,959	1,400,045,138	933,363
4	161	Storm Front	We Didn't Start the Fire	603,964,047	336,564	1,033,041,244	688,694
5	77	The Stranger	She's Always a Woman	485,485,905	448,750	830,392,083	553,594
6	67	The Stranger	Just the Way You Are	313,757,812	170,974	536,662,343	357,774
7	87	52nd Street	My Life	301,781,619	427,935	516,177,843	344,118
8	97	Glass Houses	It's Still Rock and Roll to Me	280,973,351	138,228	480,586,653	320,391
9	72	The Stranger	Only the Good Die Young	229,760,668	127,459	392,990,688	261,993
10	70	The Stranger	Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)	187,110,048	128,951	320,039,574	213,359
11	128	An Innocent Man	The Longest Time	174,291,149	67,813	298,113,681	198,742
12	172	River Of Dreams	The River of Dreams	129,188,815	66,885	220,969,070	147,312
13	101	Glass Houses	You May Be Right	101,352,160	41,008	173,356,281	115,570
14	86	52nd Street	Honesty	98,983,392	43,147	169,304,658	112,869
15	58	Turnstiles	New York State of Mind	98,330,205	48,810	168,187,424	112,124
16	75	The Stranger	Scenes from an Italian Restaurant	77,086,356	41,768	131,851,201	87,900
17	127	An Innocent Man	Tell Her About It	59,257,969	30,731	101,356,904	67,571
18	91	52nd Street	Zanzibar	58,363,324	17,987	99,826,672	66,551
19	160	Storm Front	The Downeaster 'Alexa'	53,105,226	19,587	90,833,037	60,555
20	84	52nd Street	Big Shot	44,781,258	18,252	76,595,431	51,063
		Album	Song
				∑ = 6,337,753,281	∑ = 4,225,053	∑ = 10,840,315,033	∑ = 7,226,876

Unlock full updated discography data Table keys

Seq. stands for sequence. It sorts albums in discographic order.
Spotify total reflects release to date (RTD) streams of the track as shown on their software.
Spotify daily is calculated based on streams over the last 1 day(s).
AOD (Audio on-demand) reflects total streams through all AOD platforms, Spotify included. The non-Spotify part is an algorithm based figure which considers the main artist's strength and Spotify shares in each market.
AOD streams divided by 1,500 would provide equivalent album sales (EAS) for the track.
The 'Song' and 'Album' grey fields at the bottom of the table allow filtering on them.

Thresholds - Spotify KPIs

Date	KPI	Milestone
2024-07-20	Listeners	32,000,000
2024-07-05	Listeners	31,000,000
2024-06-19	Followers	6,000,000
2024-03-30	Listeners	30,000,000
2024-03-24	Listeners	29,000,000
2024-03-18	Listeners	28,000,000
2024-03-12	Listeners	27,000,000
2024-03-04	Listeners	26,000,000
2024-02-15	Listeners	25,000,000
2024-02-04	Listeners	24,000,000
2024-01-14	Listeners	23,000,000
2023-05-23	Listeners	22,000,000
2023-04-15	Listeners	21,000,000
2023-03-27	Listeners	20,000,000
2023-03-16	Followers	5,000,000
2023-01-10	Listeners	19,000,000
2022-12-03	Listeners	18,000,000
2022-11-16	Followers	4,000,000
2020-05-17	Followers	2,000,000

Thresholds - Streams

Date	Format	Title	Milestone
2025-06-11	Single	My Life	300,000,000
2025-06-08	Album	An Innocent Man	1,500,000,000
2025-06-04	Single	We Didn't Start the Fire	600,000,000
2025-05-26	Single	Vienna	800,000,000
2025-05-23	Album	Piano Man	1,100,000,000
2025-05-03	Album	The Stranger	2,100,000,000
2025-04-26	Artist all credits	Billy Joel	7,000,000,000
2025-04-26	Single	Piano Man	1,000,000,000
2025-04-19	Album	52nd Street	500,000,000
2025-04-17	Single	Just the Way You Are	300,000,000
2025-03-25	Album	Storm Front	700,000,000
2025-03-16	Artist leads	Billy Joel	7,000,000,000
2025-03-08	Album	The Stranger	2,000,000,000
2025-01-29	Single	Uptown Girl	1,100,000,000
2024-12-29	Single	Vienna	700,000,000
2024-12-26	Album	The Stranger	1,900,000,000
2024-11-28	Album	Piano Man	1,000,000,000
2024-10-14	Single	Piano Man	900,000,000
2024-10-13	Album	An Innocent Man	1,300,000,000
2024-10-08	Album	The Stranger	1,800,000,000
2024-09-22	Single	Uptown Girl	1,000,000,000
2024-07-20	Album	The Stranger	1,700,000,000
2024-07-18	Single	Vienna	600,000,000
2024-06-28	Artist leads	Billy Joel	6,000,000,000
2024-06-27	Album	An Innocent Man	1,200,000,000
2024-06-26	Artist all credits	Billy Joel	6,000,000,000
2024-06-03	Single	Uptown Girl	900,000,000
2024-05-17	Album	Storm Front	600,000,000
2024-05-11	Album	The Stranger	1,600,000,000
2024-04-13	Album	Piano Man	900,000,000
2024-03-30	Album	An Innocent Man	1,100,000,000
2024-03-03	Album	The Stranger	1,500,000,000
2024-02-16	Single	Uptown Girl	800,000,000
2024-02-06	Single	Piano Man	800,000,000
2023-12-03	Album	The Stranger	1,400,000,000
2023-11-19	Album	An Innocent Man	1,000,000,000
2023-09-24	Artist leads	Billy Joel	5,000,000,000
2023-09-21	Artist all credits	Billy Joel	5,000,000,000
2023-07-23	Album	Piano Man	800,000,000
2023-07-20	Artist leads	Billy Joel	4,000,000,000
2023-06-04	Album	An Innocent Man	900,000,000
2023-04-13	Single	Piano Man	700,000,000
2023-02-25	Artist all credits	Billy Joel	4,000,000,000
2023-01-24	Album	The Stranger	1,100,000,000
2022-11-22	Album	An Innocent Man	800,000,000
2022-10-14	Album	Piano Man	700,000,000
2022-09-22	Album	The Stranger	1,000,000,000
2022-05-23	Album	The Stranger	900,000,000
2022-05-04	Album	An Innocent Man	1,400,000,000
2022-04-26	Album	An Innocent Man	700,000,000
2021-11-06	Artist leads	Billy Joel	3,000,000,000
2020-09-08	Artist leads	Billy Joel	2,000,000,000

Overtakings

Date	Ranking	Overtaking
2025-06-04	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Billy Joel climbs from #32 to #31.
2025-06-01	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Billy Joel climbs from #32 to #31.
2025-04-22	Top Songs CSPC - All Time	Piano Man climbs from #93 to #92.
2025-04-22	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1983	Uptown Girl climbs from #5 to #3.
2025-04-07	Top Artists CSPC - All Time	Billy Joel climbs from #31 to #30.
2025-04-05	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1973	Piano Man climbs from #10 to #2.
2025-04-03	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1983	Uptown Girl climbs from #5 to #2.
2025-03-20	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1983	Uptown Girl climbs from #5 to #4.
2025-03-17	Top Songs CSPC - All Time	Piano Man climbs from #92 to #90.
2025-03-14	Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1983	Uptown Girl climbs from #5 to #4.

Artist rankings

With 154,394,000 EAS, Billy Joel ranks #31 among the most successful artists of alltime.
With 19,523,000 EAS, Billy Joel ranks #6 among the most successful artists of 1973.
With 27,124,000 EAS, Billy Joel ranks #7 among the most successful artists of 1977.
With 17,183,000 EAS, Billy Joel ranks #6 among the most successful artists of 1978.
With 15,303,000 EAS, Billy Joel ranks #9 among the most successful artists of 1980.
With 6,565,000 EAS, Billy Joel ranks #10 among the most successful artists of 1982.
With 23,872,000 EAS, Billy Joel ranks #3 among the most successful artists of 1983.
With 13,149,000 EAS, Billy Joel ranks #7 among the most successful artists of 1989.
With 11,378,000 EAS, Billy Joel ranks #10 among the most successful artists of 1993.
With 129,075,000 copies, Billy Joel ranks #32 among the artists with the most pure album sales of all time.
With 129,075,000 copies, Billy Joel ranks #33 among the artists with the most pure album sales of all time.
With 36,900,000 copies, Billy Joel ranks #28 among the artists with the most physical single sales of all time.

Album rankings

With 19,414,000 EAS, Piano Man ranks #4 among the most successful albums of 1973.
With 27,225,000 EAS, The Stranger ranks #7 among the most successful albums of 1977.
With 17,230,000 EAS, 52nd Street ranks #7 among the most successful albums of 1978.
With 15,376,000 EAS, Glass Houses ranks #8 among the most successful albums of 1980.
With 6,593,000 EAS, The Nylon Curtain ranks #10 among the most successful albums of 1982.
With 23,945,000 EAS, An Innocent Man ranks #3 among the most successful albums of 1983.
With 13,552,000 EAS, Storm Front ranks #7 among the most successful albums of 1989.
With 1,115,198,367 streams on Spotify, Piano Man ranks #5 among the most streamed albums of 1973.
With 2,183,617,702 streams on Spotify, The Stranger ranks #5 among the most streamed albums of 1977.
With 1,504,792,354 streams on Spotify, An Innocent Man ranks #5 among the most streamed albums of 1983.

Song rankings

With 15,940,000 EAS, Piano Man ranks #92 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 15,940,000 EAS, Piano Man ranks #2 among the most successful songs of 1973.
With 7,723,000 EAS, My Life ranks #10 among the most successful songs of 1978.
With 14,844,000 EAS, Uptown Girl ranks #4 among the most successful songs of 1983.
With 9,080,000 EAS, We Didn't Start the Fire ranks #5 among the most successful songs of 1989.
With 7,960,000 EAS, The River of Dreams ranks #8 among the most successful songs of 1993.
With 1,031,774,363 streams on Spotify, Piano Man ranks #2 among the most streamed tracks of 1973.
With 817,748,665 streams on Spotify, Vienna ranks #10 among the most streamed tracks of 1977.
With 1,188,606,745 streams on Spotify, Uptown Girl ranks #5 among the most streamed tracks of 1983.
With 603,627,483 streams on Spotify, We Didn't Start The Fire ranks #6 among the most streamed tracks of 1989.

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