Song · Billy Joel
“It's Still Rock n' Roll to Me” by Billy Joel
“It's Still Rock n' Roll to Me” by Billy Joel appears on 28 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 1991 and 2026. Its best result is #53 on the WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #282 of the '80s.
Watch
Video from YouTube (Joanne Cooper Play Along Videos). Pressing play loads YouTube's player. Watch on YouTube
Billy Joel wrote "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" for Glass Houses, his 1980 album on Columbia, and Phil Ramone produced it. It's Joel with his arms folded, needling the music business and the critics and scoffing at the idea that new wave and the rest of the latest styles were anything more than old tricks in fresh clothes. The era's shifting trends and attitudes get a going-over too.
The public was buying, though: it gave Joel his first American number one, holding the top of the Hot 100 for two weeks that summer and staying in the top 10 for 11 weeks. American Top 40 ranked it 1980's 7th biggest hit, and it went platinum for sales of more than a million.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
Also listed as: It's Still Rock and Roll to Me; It's Still Rock & Roll To Me; It's Still Rock and Roll To Me; Its Still Rock and Roll To Me; It's Still Rock And Roll To Me; It's Still Rock and Roll.
Comments
Log in or create a free account to join the conversation about "It's Still Rock n' Roll to Me" by Billy Joel.
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.