I feel like every other number 40 hit I'm saying this, but yet again we have an act who's had both a number 1 and a number 40. We are onto the 86th number 40 and this is the 32nd act with this claim.
Billy Joel is one of those acts who's chart record perhaps doesn't reflect his true popularity. For example, "Piano Man" never made the Top 40 and "She's Always A Woman" didn't make the Top 40 until people downloaded it following a Fyfe Dangerfield cover on the John Lewis advert in 2010.
His Top 40 debut came in 1978 with "Just The Way You Are" which made number 19. A year later a Barry White cover of that song did better peaking at 12 a couple of weeks before Billy Joel did the same with his 3rd hit "My Life", his highest charting of the 70s.
This was his 4th Top 40 single which was the first off his "Glass Houses" album. It's perhaps a heavier sounding record than your average Billy Joel song. It was never released in America though making it the only Billy Joel Top 40 hit not to make the Billboard 100.
Although follow up "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" only made number 14 in the UK, it gave him his first American number one. Then his next UK hit "Uptown Girl" gave him his only UK number one to date.
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