"The River of Dreams" is a single by Billy Joel

Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...

. It is the title track and first single from his 1993 album River of Dreams

River of Dreams

River of Dreams is the 12th studio album by Billy Joel, released in 1993. This is the last pop album made by Joel, and presented a much more serious tone as a whole, dealing with issues such as trust and long-lasting love; it was rumored that the themes of trust and betrayal, particularly certain...

. The song was a hit, peaking at #3 on the US and UK charts, making it his highest charting of the 1990s. It also hit the top spot in Australia and on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Adult Contemporary chart. At least four versions of Billy's song have been recorded and released. Two versions (released years later) include a bridge section containing a piano interlude paralleling Joel's melody from his song "Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel)" [also from the same album]. These versions can be found on the boxed sets "My Lives" and "Complete Hits Collection: 1973-1999" - but even these versions differ from each other, both in length and in arrangement (one, for instance, has more percussion.) A fourth mix appears as a bonus cut on the UK CD single of "River of Dreams" - the "percapella mix". "The River of Dreams" was nominated for the 1993 Grammy Record of the Year award, but lost to "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston.

UK CD single

All songs written by Billy Joel.

1. "The River of Dreams" - 4:05
2. "The River of Dreams" (Percapella mix)
3. "The Great Wall of China" - 5:45

Peak positions

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	1
Austrian Singles Chart	2
Canadian Singles Chart Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....	2
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	5
French Singles Chart	4
German Media Control Charts Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	4
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	2
New Zealand Singles Chart	1
Norwegian Singles Chart	8
Swedish Singles Chart	8
Swiss Singles Chart	2
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	3
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Recurrents	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay	1
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	1

End of year charts

End of year chart (1993)	Position
Australian Singles Chart	13
Austrian Singles Chart	25
Swiss Singles Chart	37
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	27
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	26

External links

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