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Bon Jovi‘s new album Forever certainly didn’t live up to its name on the charts. As noted by Forbes, after debuting at No. 5 in its first week of release, the album fell all the way out of the Billboard 200 album sales chart the following week. Unless it returns in the future, Forever will be the first Bon Jovi studio album to only last one week in the Top 200. The band’s previous album, 2020’s pandemic-delayed 2020, only notched two weeks on the chart. It debuted at No. 19, then fell 126 spots the following week before departing for good. With their touring future in doubt due to singer Jon B...
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Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of Rush paid tribute to producer Peter Collins, who died at 73 after a career-spanning five decades. The British studio mastermind’s credits include Rush’s Power Windows, Bon Jovi’s These Days, Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime, Alice Cooper’s Hey Stoopid, Gary Moore’s After the War and more than 50 other records. Collins briefly became a pop musician and then a jingle writer before his production career started in the U.K. with ‘80s pop artists including Nik Kershaw and Tracey Ullman. He moved to the U.S. where he helmed albums for artists from various genres, from...
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Bon Jovi guitarist Phil X discussed his struggle with impostor syndrome after replacing Richie Sambora in the band. The Canadian guitarist, once a member of Triumph, stood in for Sambora for a few shows in 2011. Jon Bon Jovi called him back when Sambora suddenly quit the band two years later. X has been in place ever since, becoming an official member in 2016. However, in a recent interview with Masters of Shred (video below) he said it had taken him a while to shake the feeling that he shouldn’t be there. READ MORE: Phil X Got ‘Hotel California’ Vibes Working on Bon Jovi’s New LP “When… you’r...
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Bon Jovi’s record label has been accused of selling copies of new album Forever as signed editions when the signatures are fake. Some fans have said that the Jon Bon Jovi autographs on the sleeves were created using an autopen technique, meaning they were produced using a mechanical template and weren’t physically signed by the singer himself. The band’s record label, UMG, was the subject of angry social media posts after some who’d purchased autographed editions in North America looked closely at the signature. READ MORE: The Best Song From Every Bon Jovi Album While the special editions of F...
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Bon Jovi played a surprise five-song set in Nashville on Friday, June 7. The intimate performance celebrated the grand opening of JBJ’s, the new rooftop bar and restaurant owned by Jon Bon Jovi. It also came on the day Bon Jovi released their sixteenth studio album, Forever. The show was notable considering the lingering uncertainty surrounding Jon Bon Jovi’s voice. The singer underwent vocal surgery in 2022 and has been enduring a long road to recovery ever since. The frontman recently confirmed he’ll be unable to tour in support of his new album, noting that he’s “more than capable of singin...
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Bon Jovi recently released a new album, Forever, but it’s unlikely the band will tour in support of it on account of Jon Bon Jovi’s ongoing vocal recovery. Back in 2022, the singer underwent a procedure called vocal cord medialization to help his voice regain proper function, but the healing process has been slow. Earlier this year, he noted in an interview with Mix 104.1 Boston that it’s his “desire to do a tour next year, but I’m just still recovering from a major surgery.” An Update From Jon Bon JoviNow, Bon Jovi has told The Guardian that he’s not ready yet. “It’s a work in progress,” he e...
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Jon Bon Jovi clarified a recent comment about having had many women in his life despite remaining married to Dorothea, his school sweetheart. In an interview in May, while the singer discussed his career, he said: “I’m not a saint. You know, I’m not saying that there weren’t 100 girls in my life. I’m Jon Bon Jovi. It was pretty good.” He went on to add that he’d never considered risking his marriage by “believing the narcissist in me was real,” saying it would have been “a stupid thing to do.” READ MORE: Ranking Every Bon Jovi Song Asked by the Guardian about that comment, Bon Jovi replied: “T...
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Going into a new Bon Jovi album with an open mind in 2024 requires the understanding that this isn’t the same band from 40 years ago. Gone are the bare-chested, libidinous glam-metal anthems of the MTV era; ever since Max Martin got his hands on the career-rejuvenating “It’s My Life” at the dawn of the millennium, Bon Jovi has trafficked in slick, nostalgia-soaked adult-contemporary pop-rock. They still reach for the rafters, but they are now full of parents who are likely more concerned with memorizing their kids’ soccer schedules than Aqua Netting their hair or wiggling into a pair of leathe...
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Jon Bon Jovi recalled the shock of Richie Sambora’s unexpected departure from Bon Jovi and said the guitarist had made “no great overtures” about returning. Sambora simply failed to show up for a show in Canada in April 2013, leaving the band to continue with Phil X in his place. In recent months Sambora has talked about the possibility of a reunion – especially if Bon Jovi’s voice issues are resolved and he’s able to tour again. The frontman recalled the unexpected lineup change in a new interview with Classic Rock. “It was a shock,” he said. “Nobody anticipated it; no one saw it coming. I ta...
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Bon Jovi has a new single out, “Living Proof.” You can hear the song, which is part of the band’s upcoming album,Forever, below. “We bring back the talk box, the idea based on Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh and our using it first on ‘Livin’ on a Prayer,'” Jon Bon Jovi explained in a promotional video earlier this week. “This is a big ol’ rock song just the way you like it.” What to Expect From ‘Forever’“The overarching sentiment of this album is that of joy,” Bon Jovi told UCR in March. “How did I get to joy? I had to work through a lot of dark misery!” Forever, which is Bon Jovi’s 16th album an...
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