Piano Man
by Billy Joel
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Billy Joel bestography
Piano Man is ranked 6th best out of 27 albums by Billy Joel on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Billy Joel is The Stranger which is ranked number 237 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,578.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Piano Man track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Piano Man rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Liedzeit | Top 86 Music Albums of 1973 | 18/86 | 4 |
| 2026 | Moondance | Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 | 10/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 44 Music Albums of 1973 | 8/44 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1973 | 13/59 | - |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | 1973: Part 2- #101-200 | 23/42 | - |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 56 Music Albums of 1973 | 48/56 | 1 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 44 Music Albums of 1973 | 28/44 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Sounds End Of Year List 1974 | 11/21 | - |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | videoheadcleaner's 201-300 | 95/100 | - |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 54/100 | 9 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 169 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 555 | |||
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Piano Man ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 3 days ago | brent13 | 2,278 | 66/100 |
| ! | 3 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | 16,760 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/27/2026 04:17 | JimChurch | 8 | 57/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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Piano Man forum mentions
Liedzeit 10/20/2026 13:35 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
Romanelli 12/02/2024 16:07 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Seven And The Ragged TigerView all forum mentions
Piano Man comments
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Bork TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/14/2010 02:07 | #10568 | TOP COMMENT
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Strong piano soft rock, although not as consistent as its follow-up. Piano Man is a classic and other tracks worth mentioning include Travelin' Prayer and Captain Jack. Unfortunately the mid-section does not quite hold up.
An excellent Billy joel album. Any record that has a song as good as the title track on it, is going to well worth listening to. Piano man, is probably Joel's most celebrated song, and it's easy to see why, inspired by his nights as a barroom singer, it's fantastic. Other great tracks are, the wonderful, ain't no crime, the lovely, you're my home, and the penultimate track, somewhere along the line. The ballad of Billy the kid, is one of Joel's most enjoyable tracks, but the best song, after the title track, is the glorious, captain Jack. A superb song. Piano man, is not Billy Joel's best album, but it's certainly in his top five. Very good.
Freddie55 TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/23/2009 03:24 | #7817 | TOP COMMENT
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An unfortunate case of death by radio play. This album was a real stunner when it was first released. Used to listen to it on FM radio but couldn't buy it because of drug references.
Brandon8 TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/28/2017 05:53 | #186513 | TOP COMMENT
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Very strong album with a good opener Travelin Prayer followed up the classic Piano Man. You're My Home and Billy the Kid are lesser classics and finishes with the rocker Captain Jack. The other songs are pretty good too. One of his best.
It might initially appear that one song carries the whole album, but actually there is more to this than meets the eye (ear in this case).
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