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Originally Posted by jovifan93
Yeah ok, sorry, I should've said I was talking about Europe. I have/had no idea how they did in the US, or in the 80s, since I wasn't a fan back then.
But yeah, they were huge over here from 93-95/96, everything went no 1, multi-platinum, and so on... All those (no 1) singles from KTF - KTF, BOR, ITA, DC, hell even ISWID was a single with a video constantly running on MTV. And thus, you weren't smiled upon as much as you are nowadays. Good times  |
I’d have to disagree with you on the TD era then. It didn’t stop after TAALS. That album was huge over here and all the singles got heavy rotation on MTV.
I recall a daily MTV Europe show called Dial MTV where viewers would dial in to request their favourite song of the day. All the These Days singles were regularly on top of that chart and, if I’m not wrong, Lie To Me held the record for consecutive days at number 1 or in the chart (can’t remember which). All the singles did well in the UK too with Hey God the lowest at number 13. There was little promotion for it and it was released over a year after the album so that was a decent showing.
There were countless Bon Jovi weekends on MTV through that era all the way into Destination Anywhere and the band also got on TFI Friday, a massive show at the time, when the These Days single was released. They were massive at that point. It wasn’t These Days that took the wind out of their sails in Europe - it was the post 2000 music.