40th Anniversary Boxset (2025)

Agreed, I don't think it will go that far. We're not going to get 50 good songs (or probably 50 songs at all), the 2004 came from the golden era and STILL had quite a few terrible songs.

End of the day it's lunacy to compare what didn't get released to what got released because people thought it was bad. If Jon is such a bad A&R guy (a horse beat dead within an each of its life by now) we may get a bunch of good stuff here regardless of the era and players. Shanks can play and have his sound fit in well but most of what he's done that I've loved hasn't exactly made the final record.

Just, please Bongiovi, do not mess with random Slippery tracks here on this 40th Anniversary thing...

Rather give us one complete "be all end all" Slippery When Wet box (do as Metallica did on their releases) with all the demos + working in progress, 5.1 (already out there) + decent pro-shot video of a complete concert. Along with marbles (online joke of Pink Floyd boxes), stickers, replica backstage passes + Secret Society newsletters.

Thank you.

I will be happy with anything they release, I'm easy to please, I just hope is something well done, good production, good artwork with a lot of interesting stuff for us to look at.
I bet it will have a lot of songs from 2000 to now, makes sense since the first box was 80s/90s/00s.
Hope the SWW stuff that leaked I don't know how many years ago make to this box set, I have zero hopes for a special edition for SWW, if he wanted to do, he would have done already... And that's it, my greatest fear is production, actually. Hope they leave to Obie and Obie alone, besides some weird stuffs like the key change in Last Chance Train and whatever happened to Starting All Over Again, I love what he did on the first box set

it won't surprise me if they will release another greatest hits album instead. Including Livin on a Prayer, It's my life, Bad name etc... and 2 new songs maybe. because they could earn some good money on it. The box set will be unprofitable for Jony's and Matt's business mind.

About another GH, I think that could happen in 2024. Maybe that's why the Box Set is launched in 2023.

The question is ... what will happen in 2022? a new album? an extended edition of 2020? an EP with new songs to promote the tour?

... Or nothing at all? hahahaha

I don't see another GH coming, The 2010 didn't do so hot and that was five years after their last hit. They've had nothing overly massive since Who Says and the last GH was padded with fan favourites just to fill it. I think it will make more money than the box set would, sure, but both will cost $$$ to market.

I can't really imagine them putting out another GH either (at least not in the near future). They haven't had any hits since the last one came out, so what would they even change about the tracklist?

I also don't think it would sell particularly well because everyone who's had an interest in a Bon Jovi GH in recent times probably already bought the last one (and people are definitely still buying that one these days since it's usually floating around somewhere on the rock album charts on iTunes), so they're not gonna spend their money on a new one with like 3 different tracks that weren't even hits.

There's probably a bigger market for a new record (or the anniversary boxset) these days, especially in combination with a tour announcement.

And the sad truth is, that even for a new record the market isn't too big either.
2020 just proofed that when they can't combine it with ticket bundles, album sales were worse than we could have imagined.

Yeah there's no market for ANY of these options. Each of them will require a marketing push. With spotify and streaming I can't see the demand greatest hits used to have. It'll attract a certain market of people that still use CDs though but....physical media is dying off unless it's hyper specific to an era or a box set.