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52nd Streetis the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriterBilly Joel, released on October 11, 1978,[1]as the follow-up to his breakthrough album,The Stranger.Joel tried to give the new album a fresh sound, hiring various jazz musicians to differentiate it from his previous albums.[2]

It was the first of four Joel albums to top theBillboardcharts, and it earned him twoGrammys. Three songs reached the Top 40 in the United States, contributing to the album’s success: “My Life” (number 3), “Big Shot” (number 14), and “Honesty” (number 24).[3]It was similarly well received by critics, earning the 1979GrammyforAlbum of the Year.[4]This Grammy was presented to its producer,Phil Ramone. Upon Ramone’s death,52nd Street‘s Album of the Year Grammy was passed on to Joel.

The album was among the first commercially released on thecompact discformat, reaching store shelves on October 1, 1982, in Japan (it was one of 50 CDs released that day, includingThe Stranger, but bore the first catalogue number in the sequence, 35DP-1, and so is frequently cited as the first to be released).[5]In keeping with this history, it was also the first release when Sony returned to manufacturingvinyl recordsin 2018.[6]

The title is a reference to52nd Street, one of New York City’s jazz centers in the middle of the century. Joel’s label was headquartered on 52nd Street (in theCBS Building) at the time of the album’s release. The studio where recording took place was also on 52nd Street, one block away from the CBS Building.

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