Album · Billy Squier
Don’t Say No by Billy Squier
Don’t Say No is an album by Billy Squier, released in 1981. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 164 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Stroke”, on 88 lists with a best position of #7.
Don't Say No, Billy Squier's second album, came out on Capitol on April 13, 1981, and it's the one that made him: the biggest record of his career, hanging around the Billboard album chart for 111 weeks. Reinhold Mack produced it, and the sound is big, bright arena rock, all crunching riffs, fat drums and hooks built to be yelled back from the cheap seats.
"The Stroke" was the first single, a strutting, stomping groove that went down even better on rock radio than on the pop chart, and "In the Dark" and "My Kinda Lover" kept the run going. "Lonely Is the Night" never got a proper single release or a video, yet it turned into one of his signature songs anyway. Squier's no-frills performance clips were fixtures on the newborn MTV, which only fed the fire, and the album went platinum within months of release. Emotions in Motion followed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Don’t Say No on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Stroke#332 of all time | 88 | #7 | – | 1981–2026 | |
| 2 | Lonely Is The Night#372 of all time | 76 | #36 | – | 1982–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.