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Originally Posted by Bounce7800
Problem is, it got played once on radio 2 and then nothing since. Zero plays on music TV channels. Missed the top 100 in the charts. It's barely enticing people who are casual fans of Bon Jovi let alone a wider audience. That's not necessarily the songs fault, but something a bit more different may have captured the imagination of someone who may promote it. As it is, it gave us a new song as a fanbase, but didn't even make a dent in the wider public's consciousness. Bon Jovi aren't a singles band anymore, but they (the record company/PR/Band/whoever) haven't even managed to get this one off the ground. Plus points for a bit of social media work, black marks elsewhere.
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I honestly think without
serious PR, interviews, appearances etc, any style of song would probably have struggled in terms of chart position. A radio friendly song has more chance of airplay. That is the logic of a record company.
I think
Who Would You Die For is a better song than
Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning. But as a lead single hoping to catch the ear of a casual radio listener, it's pretty clear which song would get the nod. How many times do people flick radio stations if a song hasn't grabbed them within 15-20 seconds? Right or wrong that's the criteria most labels/radio stations go with.
The irony (lost on the record company/maybe the band too) is that it now seems a quality album track would be just as successful commercially as the radio friendly song.
The only avenue the band could take at this stage of their career that would grab a new fan base is with the hard rock/metal audience. They lost a lot of that audience before Crush. And certainly since. But they could recapture
some of it had they opted for a genuine hard rock album.