Into The Music
Billy Joel’s record-breaking 100th Madison Square Garden residency show is finally getting the home video treatment it deserves. A full Blu-ray and DVD release of the landmark March 28, 2024 concert has been announced, due out May 29, 2026, and it includes something the original CBS broadcast did not: 11 songs that never made it to television.
The complete concert, titled The 100th: Live at Madison Square Garden (The Complete Concert), arrives filmed in 4K with 5.1 surround audio. For anyone who caught the broadcast on CBS or streamed it on Paramount+ at the time, the release fills in what felt like obvious gaps. “The Longest Time,” “Uptown Girl,” “Big Shot,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” and “The Downeaster ‘Alexa'” are among the tracks making their official home video debut here, and Sting’s guest performance of “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” is preserved in full.
Joel’s MSG residency was one of those cultural events that kept compounding its own legend. He played the Garden every month starting in 2014, and the 100th show transformed what was already a remarkable streak into something that felt genuinely historic. The man had essentially turned a New York City institution into a second home, and the crowd energy that night reflected it.
The CBS special that aired two weeks after the concert did a respectable job capturing the occasion, but a 90-minute television edit of a three-hour-plus concert is always going to leave things on the cutting room floor. The complete Blu-ray fixes that, and the 4K restoration makes the full MSG scale feel properly cinematic.
Home video releases of concert films have been making a quiet comeback in the streaming era, partly because fans are increasingly aware of what gets cut in broadcast edits. Joel’s team clearly understood that the audience for this one would want everything, not a highlight reel. That’s the right call. A show of this magnitude deserves a document, not a summary.
The release comes just as Joel’s post-residency chapter is still taking shape. He played his final MSG show in July 2024, ending the residency that had become a New York City institution in its own right. The Blu-ray functions as both a time capsule of that era and a reminder of what Joel at full strength looks like: a piano player who somehow fills arenas without ever making it feel like an arena show.
Pre-orders are already live. If you were in that room on March 28, 2024, this one is obvious. If you weren’t, consider it the closest thing to being there.
The fact that this release includes everything the TV broadcast cut is the actual story here , because those broadcasts always make the same compromises, trimming the set to fit the runtime or dropping the songs that didn’t clear for rights. Anyone who’s hunted down the full concert recordings from MSG over the years knows how much gets left on the floor. A properly authored Blu-ray with complete audio and the right aspect ratio is still the gold standard for live concert home video and I’m glad someone at his label made that call. Now if they’d done this for the Piano Man 50th anniversary shows in proper lossless audio we’d really be talking.