Thank You For Loving Me not written by Jon?

It could have been a simple mix-up since Steve Mac (McCutcheon) and Wayne Hector registered a song called "Thank You" with ASCAP; and there's another one titled "Thank You For Loving Me" that's registered to Steve McCutcheon and two other co-writers, Daly and Farrin. Neither song has a performer associated with it.

TYFLM, with Bon Jovi as performer, is registered to Jon and Richie only.

Good info. I'm chalking it up as a conspiracy.

Someone should go on Wikipedia and change it to reflect the correct info.

My 2 cents is that the two Westlife songs don't really sound too much like Thank You For Loving Me to me. For instance, when you listen to It's My Life and Larger Than Life (Backstreet Boys) back to back you can easily see how it has fingerprints from the same person. I don't get that feeling from these examples.

And much like it's been suggested with Save The World, it does sound like they were trying to make a 'Bon Jovi by numbers' type ballad, adapted to 2000, and these were the two attempts. The lyrics sound like Bon Jovi too.

That being said, Jon is definitely not above buying songs from other people, so it wouldn't totally shock me. It's a nice theory, but I'd take it more seriously if there wasn't a bunch of other songs that credit outside writers, as others pointed out, and if there was a single reputable source that would list Mac and Hector as writers, which doesn't seem to be the case.

It could be Jon and the likes of Max Martin, Carlsson sit down together in some form and collaborate. TYFLM could have been 50% done or 100% done, Jon likes it, 'buys' it and moulds it into a Jovi song.

Or this all came from someone mis-crediting writers years ago.

It only proves that you shouldn't trust Wikipedia completely.


As already mentioned, it is a Jon and Richie song according to reliable sources.

I think he is. Because if you buy one song from others and sell it as your own and people find out, people will doubt that you wrote any of the other songs. Jon would never risk his reputation as a songwriter.

Talking about Thank You For Loving Me, I don't get the strategy Jon had with this song.
It got played only at 17 of 39 Crush-Tour shows (44 %) with 10 performances during the last leg in North America. When the tour was already finished by December 2000, Jon and Richie did another round of promo appearances in Europe and the US. At (almost) every single one they performed Thank You For Loving Me.
But when they started the One Wild Night Tour just a couple of months later, the song got played only twice out of 54 shows.

I know, it was the current single in late 2000. But we also know that Jon promoted songs only if he believed in them. So I find it kinda strange that he put so much effort in its promotion and ignoring it on the tour right afterwards.
Considering the chart positions it wasn't a big hit but it wasn't that bad either.