- Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Billy has become the sixth best-selling recording artist in the United States, according to the RIAA.
- Billy had Top 10 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and has 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote singlehandedly.
- Billy is also a five-time Grammy Award winner, a 23-time Grammy nominee and has sold over 100 million records worldwide.
- Billy was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006).
- Billy "retired" from recording pop music in 1993 but continued to tour (sometimes with Elton John).
- In 2001, Billy released Fantasies and Delusions, a CD of classical compositions for piano.
- In 2007, he briefly returned to pop songwriting and recording with a single entitled "All My Life" written for his third wife Katie Lee.
- Billy returned to touring in 2006 after a three-year hiatus from the road and has toured extensively ever since, covering many major world cities.
- In March 2009, Billy resumed his popular Face to Face tour with fellow piano man Elton John. Concerts are scheduled to be held sporadically over two years and travel around the world. The two artists first paired up in 1994, but had not toured together since May 2003.
- Billy's father was an accomplished classical pianist.
- Billy's interest in music, rather than sports, was a source of teasing and bullying in his early years.
- Billy boxed successfully on the amateur Golden Gloves circuit for a short time, winning twenty-two bouts, but abandoned the sport shortly after having his nose broken in his twenty-fourth boxing match.
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