Album · Simon and Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water is an album by Simon and Garfunkel, released in 1970. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 75 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, on 24 lists with a best position of #20.
Bridge over Troubled Water, the fifth and final studio album from Simon & Garfunkel, arrived on Columbia on January 26, 1970, and it plays like a duo bowing out at the top of its game. Art Garfunkel was off acting in Catch-22 while Paul Simon wrote the songs, all of them bar "Bye Bye Love", the Bryants' old Everly Brothers hit, and the pair produced it with Roy Halee.
Like Bookends before it, the record slips the folk harness and roams wherever it likes: rock, R&B, gospel, jazz, pop and sounds from further afield. The title song is a towering hymn, "The Boxer" a weary, thundering ballad, "Cecilia" a joyous racket. Early reviews were mixed, but it topped the charts in more than ten countries, took six Grammys including Album of the Year, and was for a time the biggest-selling album ever. By the end of that year the two had gone their separate ways.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Bridge Over Troubled Water on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bridge Over Troubled Water | 24 | #20 | – | 1987–2026 | |
| 2 | The Boxer | 22 | #26 | – | 2001–2026 | |
| 3 | The Only Living Boy In New York | 14 | #54 | – | 2004–2026 | |
| 4 | Cecilia | 13 | #308 | – | 2007–2025 | |
| 5 | Baby Driver | 2 | #608 | – | 2010–2022 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.