Born to follow vanished very quickly. But HAND was playing for many months, even years on the most important radio stations. I have fresh memory in that, because I was working in Algeciras at that time, April-May 2006, and Los 40 principales (top spain station) put Have A Nice Day among the rotating hits along....

Some other hit that spread in 2006 and that were of later releases was El Canto del Loco and Green Day, which had released their singles in 2004 and 2005. I remember that in that year, Who Says and Welcome did not sound in Spain, instead, but Have A Nice Day remained for more than a year on the radio.

About the charts, I know that Brazil has no importance on this discussion, but just as a info. Misunderstood was huge, I mean, VERY HUGE hit here. It was the time that I became a fan and I guess that's why this song is so special to me. Bon Jovi was in all over the places here.

Besides this, Bounce had the last real investment of the band in good videos. They were really trying to get some hit.

I can't say that I'm loving, but comparing with what has been done, it's already an advance. But since we had BJTV, we always will be expecting more. 30sec video is too little.

Yeah but we can't compare 2002 with 2019. The attention span of the internet wasn't what it was when Bounce was being promoted.

I never said it was...

Agree completely.

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No, 15 years ago means Have A Nice Day, which was first played in 2004 and then eventually released in 2005. It's their last global hit as crowds all over the world know the song. Sure, it wasn't as big as It's My Life but then again not many songs in their career are.

Bon Jovi charts because they incorporate downloads and "free" copies of their album to ticket sales and because of a vaste amount of people buy the album regardless of what's on it. A number 1 nowadays means a whole lot less than it did 10 or 20 years ago. Sure, it's still a number 1, but you no longer need to sell as many albums as you did back then to make it to the number 1 spot.

"Someone with a market budget" was the record company, who no longer felt any desire to prove anyone wrong. :)

They stopped backing Jon up with decent marketing scheme because of whatever Jon came up with. A lot of money went into the promotion of The Circle and it didn't get the album anywhere. Thus the record company stopped promoting it and Jon blamed the record company instead of the shit album he'd just released.

The reason this stuff doesn't get promoted is because Jon's got his "creative" freedom with the new deal and look where it got us. No one's telling him it's shit now and every album drops off the charts once every loyal fan has bought it. So I'm just not buying it. If you want people's attention you'll need to come up with something decent first. And Jon's just not making the music his fanbase wants anymore, and thus no one will be willing to invest either.

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Sebastiaan

Are they recording this album live? Or is this part of the demo process? Aren't individual tracks usually recorded separate.

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It varies. Sometimes they all record together, keep the drum track and then replace the instruments one by one. They've recorded like that in the past and a lot of bands do it like that.

They used to add instruments after...
What I see now is that everybody being in the same room, they can try different things together on the song.

Unless they had rehearsed together without us knowing that,this is part of the demo process.
This is not WAN where the band only had to record his parts.Here theres a band work,so the first step it to work the song and shape the song.
Then,when the song is done,Tico will record his drums,then Hugh the bass,and the guitars,the keys and finally the voice as you all know the process.
But yes,for me,this is the demo process RD

What I see is evidence that people can point to a couple years from now, and say, "No, I think '____ _____' really was a band album. I definitely remember seeing videos from when it was being recorded. And they were all there, in the studio, working on it together..."

And Jon will probably tell the story about how they were all in the studio, "... and day one, song one, Phil-X says to me, 'Hold on, Popeye! I think it needs something like this...' and then rips off this blazing 4-minute solo that took the song from 'okay' to 'epic'." :D :p :mrgreen: