Skip to content
Glass Houses album cover

Album · 1980

Glass Houses

by Billy Joel

Glass Houses is a 1980 rock album by Billy Joel. It runs 10 tracks across 35 minutes on Columbia.

Rock · Piano Rock · Pop Rock

Best albums of 1980→

Your rating

+ Listen later
10
Tracks
35 min
Runtime
142 bpm
Tempo
G major
Key

Not yet rated.

Be the first to rate it.

Reviews

No reviews yet.

Tracklist

10 tracks · 35 min

Ranked head-to-head

1 vs 1

Stars say how much you like Glass Houses. They never settle which song on it you would defend. Pick between two at a time and the order builds itself.

Nobody has finished a run on this record yet. Rank Glass Houses's songs yourself →

Videos

1 video

More like this

Albums like Glass Houses →

About

Glass Houses is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on March 10, 1980. It features Joel's first song to peak at #1 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." The album itself topped the Pop Albums chart for six weeks and was ranked number 4 on Billboard's 1980 year-end album chart. The album is the 41st best selling album of the 1980s, with sales of 7.1 million copies in the US alone. In 1981, Joel won a Grammy award for "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance" for his work on Glass Houses.

In brief

When was Glass Houses released?
Glass Houses was released in 1980 on Columbia.
How many tracks are on Glass Houses?
Glass Houses has 10 tracks, with a runtime of 35 minutes.
What genre is Glass Houses?
Glass Houses is catalogued under Rock, Piano Rock, Pop Rock.
What BPM is Glass Houses?
Glass Houses runs at a median tempo of 142 BPM across its tracks, most often in G major, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to Glass Houses?
Listeners of Glass Houses also rate Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John, Hot Streets by Chicago, Greatest Hits by Queen.

Glass Houses at a glance

Label
Columbia Records
Produced by
Phil Ramone

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).