Billy Joel
Points show how well known and in demand an act is today in Belgium and the Netherlands, based on public figures such as listeners and hits. They say nothing about the quality of a show. The letter is the level by the festival's own scale. How the points work ›
Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 7 nummers, hoogste #15 (Piano Man)
- in the list since 1987, 14 years
- per song
- Gold and platinum
- the Netherlands: 5 albums, 1 single
- Greatest Hits platina, 1997
- River of dreams goud, 1994
- Stormfront goud, 1990
- Greatest hits vol. 1 & 2 goud, 1986
- and 1 more
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
Joe 61 2.0 a day RADIO BOB! 8 0.3 a day VRT Radio 1 5 0.2 a day Willy 4 0.1 a day Studio Brussel 2 0.1 a day RTL2 2 0.1 a day MNM 1 0.0 a day FIP 1 0.0 a day Since we track the stationJoe 436 2.3 a day since May 2026 Willy 79 0.1 a day since Dec 2024 Studio Brussel 75 0.1 a day since Nov 2023 KEXP 30 0.0 a day since Nov 2023 NPO 3FM 24 0.0 a day since Nov 2023 RADIO BOB! 8 0.2 a day since Oct 2026 Qmusic 8 0.0 a day since Feb 2025 VRT Radio 1 6 0.1 a day since Sep 2026
De Tijdloze on StuBru
De Tijdloze is the all-time list of Studio Brussel, the Flemish rock station. Listeners vote for their favourite songs every year, and since 1987 StuBru has broadcast the top 100 at the end of December. Since 2019 the rest of the vote is known as well: 500 places in 2019, around 2,000 since 2021. A place above 100 did not make the broadcast. The figures come from tijdloze.rocks, an independent site that keeps every list since 1987. Click a column header to sort.
| Song | From | Years in the list | 2025 | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piano Man | 1973 | 10 (2016–2025) | #15 | #15 (2025) | #94 (2016) |
| Vienna | 1977 | 4 (2022–2025) | #182 | #182 (2025) | #998 (2023) |
| Lullaby | 1993 | 1 (2025) | #199 | #199 (2025) | #199 (2025) |
| She’s Always a Woman | 1977 | 6 (2020–2025) | #631 | #617 (2023) | #803 (2022) |
| We Didn't Start the Fire | 1989 | 6 (2020–2025) | #992 | #610 (2020) | #1265 (2022) |
| Goodnight Saigon | 1982 | 10 (1987–2025) | #1016 | #49 (1988) | #1016 (2025) |
| My Life | 1978 | 3 (2021–2025) | #2055 | #936 (2023) | #2055 (2025) |
| The Longest Time | 1983 | 1 (2024) | – | #860 (2024) | #860 (2024) |
| Leningrad | 1989 | 1 (2024) | – | #952 (2024) | #952 (2024) |
Records
Albums in the Belgian and Dutch album charts (Ultratop, Dutch Charts) and with gold or platinum (BEA, NVPI).
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Stranger | 2026 | #189 (1 wk) | #36 (11 wk) | – |
| Piano Man | 2020 | #192 (1 wk) | – | – |
| Piano Man - The Very Best Of | 2019 | #134 (6 wk) | – | – |
| The Ultimate Collection | 2001 | – | #36 (7 wk) | – |
| River Of Dreams | 1993 | – | #23 (39 wk) | gold NL |
| Storm Front | 1989 | – | #14 (33 wk) | gold NL |
| Концерт | 1987 | – | #39 (5 wk) | – |
| The Bridge | 1986 | – | #20 (8 wk) | – |
| Greatest Hits Vol. I & Vol. II | 1985 | – | #7 (56 wk) | – |
| An Innocent Man | 1983 | – | #14 (16 wk) | – |
| The Nylon Curtain | 1983 | – | #1 (14 wk) | gold NL |
| Glass Houses | 1980 | – | #20 (4 wk) | – |
| 52nd Street | 1979 | – | #33 (4 wk) | – |
| Greatest Hits | – | – | platinum NL | |
| Greatest hits vol. 1 & 2 | – | – | gold NL |
singles met goud of platina: Belgium 0, the Netherlands 1.
How popular is Billy Joel compared with other countries?
Based on search volume and listeners from the various sources. Each country compared with the worldwide figure.
Per edition, historical
Score measured in the twelve months before each edition, place = rank in that line-up. The letter differs per festival: an A at Best Kept Secret can be a C at Rock Werchter.
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Over the years
◆ purple = album, ▲ red = festival in Belgium, ▲ green = festival in the Netherlands, ● grey = own concert. Click the legend to switch them on or off.
Place among all acts on this site: 80 = viewed or searched more than 80% of the other acts that month. The thick line is the average.
Studio Brussel since August 2023, NPO 3FM and KINK since 2020, the other stations since late October 2026. "Compare countries" shows the average per station.
Songs per station, last 18 months
| Station | Country | Most played |
|---|---|---|
| Joe | Netherlands | Uptown Girl 123 · Piano Man 104 · My Life 102 · She's Always A Woman To Me 72 · Honesty 19 |
| MNM | Belgium | Piano Man 1 |
| Qmusic | Belgium | We Didn't Start The Fire 4 · Piano Man 1 · She's Always A Woman To Me 1 · Goodnight Saigon 1 |
| Qmusic NL | Netherlands | Piano Man 1 |
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | Piano Man 21 · We Didn't Start The Fire 7 · Vienna 5 · Uptown Girl 3 · She's Always A Woman 2 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | My Life 3 · Vienna 1 · We Didn't Start The Fire 1 · Allentown 1 · Just The Way You Are 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | We Didn't Start The Fire 58 · Piano Man 3 · My Life 1 · Honesty 1 · She's Always A Woman To Me 1 |
| FIP | France | Get It Right the First Time 1 |
| KEXP | United States | Piano Man 4 · Movin’ Out 3 · Vienna 2 · Close to the Borderline 1 · We Didn't Start The Fire 1 |
| RADIO BOB! | Germany | A Matter Of Trust 2 · We Didn't Start The Fire 2 |
| RTL2 | France | Piano Man 2 |