2020: The New Album

Originally Posted by Captain_jovi

- No Phil or Dave on Shine which to me almost confirms it's the one from WAN

Originally Posted by Alphavictim

Why would DB not be on a WAN era track?

Originally Posted by Captain_jovi

Scoured through the credits to make this guide to who played on what. Things I noticed:

- No Phil or Dave on Shine which to me almost confirms it's the one from WAN
- The majority of the acoustic guitar work is Shanks but Jon played a bunch too
- No Phil on American Reckoning
- Phil's only backing vocals are Limitless, Beautiful Drug and Do What You Can which is weird, I can swear I hear him on Brothers in Arms but that must be Everett

Is there anything that anyone else finds interesting about this list?

Originally Posted by Litneg

Shanks plays a role bigger than I thought on the recording. I swear I heard Phill on BiA too!


Another thing: 2020 seems to be sinking here in Brazil after six days on n° 2 basically... I don't recall to see any airplay of the new songs down here

Originally Posted by brunorc21

They are not sinking in Brazil. Probably they are still in the first positions but these iTunes charts are not 100% reliable. The same happened yesterday in the Spain charts when out the blue they were not there anymore. Today they are back in 5 position. Try again tomorrow.

Originally Posted by steel_horse75

Bon jovi have lost a lot of loyal fans and haven't gained enough (if any) new ones since WAN.

Yes the music biz isn't what it once was but a good album from an artist with a fanbase will still sell.

Jon can sit there and say he never chased trends etc but a huge chunk of that fanbase love the 80s-early 00s Jovi and thats all they want to hear.

They dont go to a gig to hear anything from the last 4 or 5 albums do they.

Jon's released his most relevant album in terms of what its about but the irony is bon jovi just aren't relevant any more. No casual is buying this and a lot of the older fanbase won't either. Its not what they want jovi singing about.

I've seen some odd people on twitter buying 2 or 3 copies as they want 1 signed in gold and one signed in silver etc...without those people this album would be a lot lower.


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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi

Scoured through the credits to make this guide to who played on what. Things I noticed:

- No Phil or Dave on Shine which to me almost confirms it's the one from WAN
- The majority of the acoustic guitar work is Shanks but Jon played a bunch too
- No Phil on American Reckoning
- Phil's only backing vocals are Limitless, Beautiful Drug and Do What You Can which is weird, I can swear I hear him on Brothers in Arms but that must be Everett

Is there anything that anyone else finds interesting about this list?

Originally Posted by liljovi93

It did a fair bit (UK) back in Feb/March when it actually got released and Jon was over here doing a bit of promo.

I can't believe they were number 3 midweek, 5 places above Amanda Holden, and now she is so close (she will overtake them) to overtaking them.

Ah well.

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Originally Posted by jon-flp

Beautiful Drug on Ellen:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ellen-1072666/

Good performance. At least Jon left the mic a little bit.
And unfortunately Phil's guitar is too low in the mix...