Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube
Skip to YouTube video

Loading player…

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss

A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site.

We Didn't Start the Fire

Play track

  • Listeners

    728.7K

  • Scrobbles

    4.3M

  • Listeners

    728.7K

  • Scrobbles

    4.3M

Play track
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User

Join others and track this song

Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account

Sign Up to Last.fm
Play album
Skip to YouTube video

Replace video

Length
4:48
Lyrics

Add lyrics on Musixmatch

"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by Billy Joel. Its lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between January 1949 (Joel was born on May 9 of that year) and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front. The song was a No. 1 hit in the US. It peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the Autumn of 1989. Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a friend of Sean Lennon who had just turned 21 who said "It's a terrible time to be 21!" Joel repl… read more
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by Billy Joel. Its lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events be… read more
"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by Billy Joel. Its lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between January 1949 (Joel was born on … read more

Related Tags

Add tagsView all tags

Featured On

The Essential Billy Joel

549,325 listeners

108 more albums featuring this track

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Similar Tracks

  1. The Essential Billy Joel Play track

  2. The Essential Billy Joel Play track

  3. Knee Deep in the Hoopla Play track

  4. 100 Hits of the '80s Play track

  5. Greatest Hits Play track

  6. The Greatest Hits 1970-2002 Play track

  7. Business As Usual Play track

  8. Freeze Frame Play track

  9. Cross Road Play track

  10. Graceland Play track

  11. So Far So Good Play track

  12. 100 Movie Hits Play track

Scrobble Stats

What is scrobbling?

Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.

Learn more

Recent Listening Trend

Day Listeners
1,633
1,686
1,695
1,789
1,766
1,787
1,720
1,684
1,688
1,769
1,730
1,840
1,752
1,545
1,609
1,699
1,654
1,747
1,803
1,742
1,620
1,620
1,701
1,702
1,682
1,829
1,760
1,732
1,759
1,689
1,780
1,776
1,839
1,704
1,580
1,788
1,779
1,688
1,836
1,861
1,839
1,715
1,710
1,298
1,132
1,438
1,836
1,807
1,711
1,687
1,704
1,760
1,725
1,353
1,480
1,530
1,773
1,817
1,767
1,765
1,825
1,756
1,289
1,187
1,307
1,596
1,759
1,730
1,748
1,711
1,630
1,579
1,338
1,387
1,681
1,822
1,731
1,678
1,708
1,667
1,616
1,583
1,503
1,422
1,500
1,779
2,472
2,868
2,855
2,823
2,420
2,240
2,271
2,166
2,290
2,281
2,176
2,003
1,959
1,959
1,886
1,866
1,897
1,935
1,862
1,962
1,890
1,891
1,767
1,977
1,831
1,723
1,655
1,746
1,928
1,860
1,905
1,758
1,749
1,748
1,801
1,736
1,808
1,890
1,839
1,790
1,707
1,778
1,651
1,730
1,816
1,794
1,741
1,715
1,793
1,752
1,812
1,746
1,761
1,651
1,667
1,711
1,720
1,781
1,841
1,698
1,686
1,608
1,688
1,674
1,710
1,758
1,702
1,673
1,766
1,711
1,744
1,702
1,744
1,654
1,600
1,625
1,516
1,686
1,637
1,781
1,687
1,593
1,656
1,623
1,633
1,638
1,686
1,702
1,508
1,594
1,497
1,642
1,668
1,660
1,417

Play this track

External Links

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Shoutbox

Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page

About This Artist

Artist images

67 more

Billy Joel

2,752,798 listeners

Related Tags

Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel on May 9, 1949 in Bronx, New York, USA) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become a multi-million-selling recording artist. Joel recorded many popular hit songs and albums from 1971 until he stopped recording pop/rock music in 1993. He is one of the very few rock (or even pop) artists to have Top 10 hits in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he has sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide and is the sixth… read more
Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel on May 9, 1949 in Bronx, New York, USA) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man,&qu… read more
Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel on May 9, 1949 in Bronx, New York, USA) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man," in 1973, Joel has become a multi-million-s… read more

View full artist profile

Similar Artists

  1. 3,887,375 listeners

    Avatar for Elton John

  2. 937,202 listeners

    Avatar for Huey Lewis & The News

  3. 2,862,371 listeners

    Avatar for Eagles

  4. 1,342,392 listeners

    Avatar for Chicago

  5. 2,397,622 listeners

    Avatar for Paul McCartney

  6. 1,708,860 listeners

    Avatar for Paul Simon

View all similar artists

Trending Tracks

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

View all trending tracks

Features

API Calls