Which song gave Billy Joel his second Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit?

“Tell Her About It” gave Billy Joel his second Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit. Released in July 1983 as the first single from An Innocent Man, it reached No. 1 for one week on September 24, 1983.

The song is an upbeat piece of relationship advice: the narrator urges a hesitant young man to tell the woman he loves how he feels before he loses his chance. Its polished soul-pop sound fits the retro concept of An Innocent Man, whose songs drew on Motown and other American styles Joel remembered from his youth.

“Tell Her About It” followed Joel’s earlier Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me,” which reached No. 1 in 1980. That makes “Tell Her About It” his second Hot 100 number one, not his second major hit overall. It also topped Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart.

The single was commercially strong beyond its chart position: the RIAA certified it Platinum for US sales exceeding one million units. It remains one of the defining singles from Joel’s 1983 album cycle.