yes they did it for the prudential center tickets ..I got 9 albums :rolleyes:

You are correct.

It's My Life pretty much changed the bands direction. That one song was huge and they've been chasing the follow up ever since and failing.
I wonder where they would be now if that song didn't exist?
I guess their career path could have followed Def Leppard and struggled to get any kind of exposure and playing the 80's circuit or their career could have been more organic and they just wrote music purely from an artistic point of view instead of always trying to keep up with the Joneses. Either way I guess the album sales would have plummeted more quickly instead of the gradual decline we've seen.

Who Says You Can't Go Home.

I think the last truly global successful album for the band was HAND. The title track was a global hit (even though it reached only #53 on the USA charts, it didn't include the iTunes sales of the single which is now part of the equation when determining chart postion. HAND the single has been certified gold with sales of 500,000) it's still a hit song, it had radio play power & was a top ten hit all over the world. With the success of the HAND album/single (with wsycgh in North America) I feel the band has been trying to copy this success with the circle, the new songs on the greatest hits & WAN. Lost Highway was really successful in North America. Make a memory is safe to say was their last global hit in 2007 and was the reason why lost highway the album debut at #1 all over the world and help sell 4 million. I believe the HAND album brought the band to the elite level when it comes to touring (the same as the stones/U2/Bruce) and believe the band shifted more towards touring since 05/06 to expand its global fan base instead of trying to do it through music. Basically from 05 to 08, 10-11, and now 13-14 the band has been touring to expand its audience. The cd sales are down but each tour keeps getting bigger in attendance & $$$. I think the problem with the last few Jovi albums is that nobody (the band members & John shanks) brings new stimulus/ideas when beginning a new project. After this album the best thing for the band to do is record a album with no restrictions and have a new producer who could contribute objectively to the bands sound, much like Shanks did with the HAND album when he first met the band. Despite the decline in the bands album sales/radio airplay over the last several years, a#1 is still a #1. Their fourth decade of having #1 albums is astonishing and mind blowing. People compare different eras when it comes to statistical data, but given the climate of the music industry and all the other genres of music, Bon Jovi is still standing & thriving.

Completely agree. I like a lot the new album. There are some songs that are just ok, like all of their albums, but the whole album is better IMHO than The Circle or Lost Highway.

Good grief on the US charts..Justin Timberlake's cd is gold++ out of the gate and will probably be platinum next week...everything else, not even close. Looks like Jovi should stay in the top 10.

With 70% results in from Soundscan Justin Timberlake 20/20 has sold 760,542 units Bon Jovi is no 6 with 25.863 units sold in the United States

Great post. Also what i do not get is how they brag they have 20M fans on facebook and the album will struggle to sell 1M copies.

Amen! Even if 10% of the so called "fans" would buy the album, it would sell 2M globally, but no...