#169 Billy Joel, 'The Stranger' (1977)

The album spawned 4 Top 40 hits and charted at #2 in the US, Australia and Canada, ultimately saving Billy Joel’s career. The highest charting of those songs (#3) was ‘Just The Way You Are,’ a song written for his first wife, Elizabeth Weber. Joel and his band actually didn’t like the song, but was convinced by Linda Ronstadt to include it on the album.