Ok, I'll snatch this one up. BTW 3 pages ago I said something about Shanks not having written for this new record and it was wrong - sorry. Can't be arsed to do two posts though.

With this you say 15 years, I assume you basically mean since Crush which is disingenuous - Everyday was a huge hit, Bounce was big outside the states, HAND was a huge hit globally - much moreso on radio and the same can be said of Born To Follow. WAN and Because We Can are the only real flops in recent times, THINFS was not majorly promoted outside the brand and did well as a record on its own legs.

I'll agree that noone gives a shit about them playing around in the studio bar the fans (which amounts to way more people than most bands can count) but every record hits the charts - Bon Jovi is a brand that sells and there'll always be someone trying to make money off that so you might be right, the brand may be done, but I guarantee someone with a marketing budget will try to prove you wrong. "If you hang in long enough they say you're coming back
Just take a look, we're living proof and baby that's a fact
You know the more things change the more they stay the same"

How was Everyday a huge hit?

Bounce album sold more than 8 million copies, and Everyday was the only single that served as a massive showcase at the time of its release.

The early 2000's were a weird time for the charts... bands weren't releasing singles anymore, not everyone was on board with iTunes yet, YouTube wasn't born.

Certain bands were only as good as what the record company invested in them and had that "if you like the single, buy the album" mentality.

IML only peaked at #33 because it was strictly relying on radio airplay with no other sources.... However, in reality it was probably at least a top 5 hit

Point being, it's not really fair to rate a bands relevance on singles alone back then...

Everyday got decent airplay, VH1 played the video in heavy rotation and I think it even reached #1 there, it was also nominated for a Grammy. It was definitely modest. So was Misunderstood

Who Says was the last real hit the band had in America..

Memory was modest and then nothing after that.



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My memory might be a little cloudy. I remember in North America Everyday not doing much and Misunderstood getting tons of radio and video play. Overseas might be a different story all together.

I do hear a bit of MGLBIMA in DITT but....
DITT is at least 2 minutes to short, solos awful and there should be a superb guitar play out but as usual it’s half arsed.


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Please stop using initials when referencing songs. There are way too many in the catalog now... and although I figure them out 99 times out of 100, it's like resolving a riddle.

Even if you just write Who Say instead of WSYCGH...

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Finally someone say it!!!! Hahaha absolutely agree!


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Maybe not in the US, but releasing physical singles was still very much a thing in UK, Europe, Japan and Australia. I think they sold largly to the fan base though (for the B-sides) and the bigger hits were boosted by some radio play.

Everyday was a top 5 hit in England and got a decent amount of play, but the average person won't remember it. For that matter, the same goes for Say It Isn't So and One Wild Night which were top 10 hits. Even All About Loving You was a top 10, but Misunderstand did nothing.

Both Have A Nice Day and Who Says were top 10 singles too (Who Says actually made the top 5), but again I'm not really sure if anyone outside of the fan base remembers those songs? Hits, sure, but not in the same league as the 80's and 90's stuff.

Everything from Lost Highway bombed over here, and that was pretty much the end of the commercial single releases here and the band barely charted in the singles chart since then.

As far as the general public is concerned in England, the last song that they remember is It's My Life. Sad but true....

To be fair, Misunderstood was right before Christmas if I remember right which is probably why.

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