A Question for long time fans

I hear a few BJ songs on the radio. 2 days on the run i've heard Always.

I've heard BOR a few times aswell. Lost Highway was on a few months ago. too.

I remember when I first bought the back-catalogue and put 'These Days' in the CD player, the one song I recognised and thought, "I didn't know this was Bon Jovi," was 'Something For The Pain' so I guess I must have heard that song a few times before in order that it stuck in my mind cos I never particularly liked it... and it still doesn't rate that highly on my 'favourites' list.

I listen to a decent rock station here in town that has Something For The Pain and In These Arms in fairly often rotation. I've also heard Wild In The Streets and We Got It Goin' On on this same station. Of course, being a small town, the deejays have been here forever, so at least one of them is a Jovi fan.

the exact same thing happened to me with "say it isn't so"!

Today I just heard Whole Lot Of Leaving Great song. I think its becoming my favourite on the album instead of Any Other Day...

And not so long ago, I heard on the radio It's My Life, Lost Highway, Memory, Always and Bed Of Roses.

There are two commercial radio stations here that I listen to most of the time and this is how I'd break it down in terms of current/recent airplay:

Runaway (heard it once but I think that was during Alice Cooper's syndicated show)
Prayer (common)
Wanted (common)
Bad Name (common)
Bad Medicine (occasionally)
Bed of Roses (somewhat common)
Keep the Faith (occasionally)
In These Arms (rare)
Always (somewhat common)
Something for the Pain (rare but I have heard it a few times)
It's My Life (occasionally, but it was on all the time back in the day)
HAND (rare now but it was on heavy rotation circa 2005)
Lost Highway (played to death in the lead-up to the Aussie tour, still quite common on at least one station)
Whole Lot of Leavin' (occasionally but seems to have dried up)

If I didn't list it, I probably haven't heard it on radio in the last 5 years.

I know this doesn't exactly answer the relevant question, but I vaguely remember Someday I'll Be Saturday Night being quite popular when I was 8. I liked that song even in those young days but never knew what it was til I became a Bon Jovi fan years later!

As a guy living in South Jersey outside of Philly, the FM around here will play Prayer, Bad Name, It's My Life, Wanted, Who Says, and sometimes a radio-friendly New Jersey single like Bad Medicine or Lay Your Hands. That's pretty much it. I will also say, despite this being the "state of jovi", most of the people on the south side of the state don't remember anything from Keep The Faith or Always, and many probably never even heard of them.

The local radio station where my parents live play KTF quite a lot- although I don't remember evr hearing LOAP or even Bad Name on it. Weird.

Where I live the only songs i usually hear on the radio now are Prayer, Bad Name, Wanted, I'll Be There For You, moslty on the classic rock and 80's station and of course it's My Life. I actually heard Have A Nice Day today in fact when i was at the grocery store.

Back when they were released I remember hearing In these Arms and BOR on the radio alot. Always was played constantly and I also remember hearing TAALS when it first came out on the radio quite often. I was in 8th grade at the time, makes me feel old! And those videos, along with Something For the Pain were played on MTV as well quite often.