Rock On The Net: Billy Idol

Idol hit the Top 40 with "Hot In The City."
from the LP Billy Idol
ARC chart run: 40 - 35 - 31 - 27 - 25 - 23 - 21 - 19 - off
Year-End Chart Position: # 139
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3

Idol hit the Top 40 with "White Wedding."
from the LP Billy Idol
ARC chart run: 40 - 35 - 28 - 26 - off
Year-End Chart Position: # 184
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3

# 27 Singles Artist of the Year

Idol hit the Top 40 with "Eyes Without A Face."
from the LP Rebel Yell
ARC chart run: 38 - 31 - 21 - 17 - 12 - 10 - 7 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 8 - 11 - 28 - off
Year-End Chart Position: # 45
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3

Idol hit the Top 10 with "Eyes Without A Face."

Idol hit the Top 40 with "Flesh For Fantasy."
from the LP Rebel Yell
ARC chart run: 37 - 31 - 27 - 23 - 20 - 32 - off
Year-End Chart Position: # 167
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
The video for "Dancing With Myself" was nominated for 3 MTV Video Music Awards including Best Direction, Best Special Effects, and Best Art Direction, and the video for "Eyes Without A Face" was nominated for Best Editing and Best Cinematography.

Idol hit the Top 40 with "Catch My Fall."
from the LP Rebel Yell
ARC chart run: 39 - off
Year-End Chart Position: # 245
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3

Idol was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male ("Rebel Yell").

# 84 Singles Artist of the Year

Idol hit the Top 40 with "To Be A Lover."

Idol hit the Top 10 with "To Be A Lover."

# 19 Singles Artist of the Year

Idol was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male ("To Be A Lover").
Idol hit the Top 40 with "Don't Need A Gun."

Idol hit the Top 40 with "Sweet Sixteen."

Idol hit the Top 40 with "Mony Mony."

Idol hit the Top 10 with "Mony Mony."

Idol hit #1 for a week with "Mony Mony."

# 35 Singles Artist of the Year

Idol hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with "Cradle Of Love."
from the LP Charmed Life
ARC chart run: 30 - 24 - 19 - 15 - 8 - 6 - 5 - 2 - 1 - 4 - 8 - 13 - 22 - 27 - 34 - off
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Idol hit #1 for a week with "Cradle Of Love."

The video for "Cradle Of Love" won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film and was nominated for Best Male Video and Best Special Effects.

Idol hit the Top 40 with "L.A. Woman."

Idol was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male ("Cradle Of Love").

The video for "Shock To The System" was nominated for 2 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Special Effects and Best Editing.

Rolling Stone: "The 100 Top Music Videos" included "White Wedding" at # 77.

MTV: 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made included "Cradle Of Love" at # 86.

VH1: 100 Greatest Videos included "White Wedding" at # 55.

VH1: 100 Sexiest Artists included Idol at # 55.

VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80's included "White Wedding" at # 53.

The CD/DVD The Very Best Of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself (Billboard peak: # 73) was released.

• September 28: Vital Idol: Revitalized was released.
  available for download at Amazon.mp3
  available on vinyl

• September 17: Idol released the EP The Roadside.

• November 5: Idol released the holiday LP Happy Holidays.

• September 23: Idol released the EP The Cage.