O le Stranger o se manuia tele faapisinisi, ma maua ai le fa Top-25 hits i luga o le siata Billboard: "Na o le Ala Outou o" (# 3), "Movin' Out" (# 17), "Na o le Lelei Oti Talavou" (# 24), ma "O Ia o Pea se Tamaitai" (# 17). O le muamua Top Ten album a Joel, O le Stranger na faʻamaonia le tele-platinum ma oʻo atu i le numera lua i luga o siata, faʻatau atu le Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia's muamua sili ona faʻatau atu album. O le Stranger na faʻaalia foi "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant", o se album-oriented rock classic, lea ua avea ma se tasi o ana pese sili ona lauiloa Fesili: O le a le pese na faʻatulagaina i le 17?
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