William Martin Joel, commonly known as Billy Joel, is a famous American composer, pianist, voice actor, singer and songwriter, as well as a businessman. Billy Joel rose to prominence in the early 1970s and at the time became one of the best-selling musicians and artists in the United States. Ever since his debut in 1971 with his very first album entitled “Cold Spring Harbor”, Billy Joel enchanted the audiences with his music.
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Billy Joel Net Worth $180 Million
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Over the years, Billy Joel has written 33 songs that made it to the Top 40 on the music charts and has sold over 150 million copies of his albums all around the world. One of Bill Joel’s most commercially successful albums is perhaps a compilation album called “Greatest Hits”, which came in two volumes. Up to date, the album has sold more than 25 million units and has been certified double diamond by the RIAA, along with Led Zeppelin’s “Led Zeppelin IV” and Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” albums.
Billy Joel’s immense contributions to the music industry have been acknowledged with six Grammy Awards, Kennedy Center Honors award, as well as the induction into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame.
A famous singer and songwriter, how rich is Billy Joel? Sources state that Bill Joel’s net worth is estimated to be $180 million. Billy Joel’s remarkable net worth and wealth made it possible for him to acquire several valuable assets, including his home in the Erstwhile Central Park South, the cost of which was $11 million, and his estate in Hampton, the value of which is $22.9 million.
Bill Joel was born in 1949, in New York, US. As a child, Joel started taking piano lessons even though he had no passion for it. When he was in high school, Joel decided to start boxing in order to protect himself, and proved to be a remarkable boxer until he quit the sport when he suffered injury from a broken nose. Billy Joel did not graduate from Hicksville High School but instead started playing piano at various local bars in order to financially help his mother.
When Joel was at the crossroads of his life and had to choose whether to attend university or not, he decided to pursue a career as a singer and eventually signed a record deal with “Columbia Records”. Joel’s first music venture was a cover group called “The Echoes”, however, he left his own band in order to join a rock group called “The Hassles”, with which he released several singles and albums, none of which were commercially successful. Joel went on to become a popular solo artist ever since the release of his debut album “Cold Spring Harbor”. During his career as a musician, Billy Joel has released thirteen studio albums, the most recent being “Fantasies & Delusions”.
In addition to singing, Billy Joel has been making various on screen appearances, including a sitcom “Mad About You”, “The Howard Stern Show” with Howard Stern, “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, David Letterman’s “Late Show with David Letterman” and many other television projects.
