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We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel: chart history · musicrank

Cover of We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel

Track

We Didn't Start the Fire

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Worldwide: —; Outside the joined top 100
Charting in: 0countries; Not on any chart today
Peak: #1; Billboard United States · Dec 9, 1989
Lifetime streams: 760.2M; +310.1K a day on Spotify

Around the world

Its peak on every chart it has reached, in 9 countries

Chart	Spotify	YouTube	Deezer	iTunes	Billboard	KKBOX
🇺🇸United States	Spotify: peaked at 148				Billboard: peaked at 1
🇳🇿New Zealand	Spotify: peaked at 157			iTunes: peaked at 72
🇮🇪Ireland		YouTube: peaked at 90		iTunes: peaked at 96
🇷🇴Romania				iTunes: peaked at 10
🇸🇻El Salvador				iTunes: peaked at 14
🇨🇴Colombia				iTunes: peaked at 25
🇭🇰Hong Kong						KKBOX: peaked at 37
🇯🇴Jordan			Deezer: peaked at 91
🇸🇰Slovakia			Deezer: peaked at 100

Lifetime streams

Spotify's own play count for this song, each time we checked

So far: 760,290,005; streams, as of Oct 10, 2026
A day: +310,087; streams a day, over the 8 days between two readings
Next milestone: 800 million; around Feb 15, 2027, at this rate

Credits & details

B
Billy JoelLead artist

ISRC: USSM18900217
Listed on: SpotifyYouTubeDeezeriTunesBillboardKKBOX