Album · Billy Squier
Emotions in Motion by Billy Squier
Emotions in Motion is an album by Billy Squier, released in 1982. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 74 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Everybody Wants You”, on 74 lists with a best position of #54.
Emotions in Motion, Billy Squier's third album, landed on Capitol on July 23, 1982, and it doubles down on the arena-sized hard rock of the previous year's Don't Say No. Squier co-produced again with Reinhold Mack, the man behind the desk for Queen's The Game, and the Queen connection runs deeper: Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor add backing vocals to the title track. Even the sleeve has pedigree, with cover art by Andy Warhol.
The riffs are chunky and the choruses built for shouting back. "Everybody Wants You" is the prize, a strutting rocker that sat at the top of the rock radio chart for 6 weeks, with "She's a Runner" and the title song following it onto the airwaves and deeper cuts like "Learn How to Live" getting spins of their own. The gold certification came that September, platinum just a month behind it, and only Don't Say No has outsold it among his records.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Emotions in Motion on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everybody Wants You | 74 | #54 | – | 1994–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.