The following year, the band released a box set entitled 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, the title being an homage to Elvis Presley's 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong. The set consisted of four CDs packed with 38 unreleased and 12 rare tracks, as well as a DVD. The box set marked the sales of 100 million Bon Jovi albums and also commemorated the 20th anniversary of the release of the band's first record in 1984.
In November 2004, Bon Jovi was honored with the Award for Merit at the American Music Awards, where they performed a sneak preview of an unfinished song, "Have a Nice Day".
[edit] Have a Nice Day (2005–06)
Bon Jovi participated in Live 8 on July 2, 2005, where they debuted the full, final version of "Have a Nice Day", alongside "Livin' on a Prayer" and "It's My Life". Bon Jovi's ninth studio album, Have a Nice Day, was released in September 2005. "Have A Nice Day", the first single off the album. The second single, "Who Says You Can't Go Home", was released in the U.S. in early 2006. In the U.S., a duet version of "Who Says You Can't Go Home" with country singer Jennifer Nettles of the band Sugarland was released, they also released Welcome To Wherever You Are as the third single. And in May 2006, Bon Jovi became the first Rock & Roll Band to have a #1 hit on Billboard's Hot Country Chart. On February 11, 2007, Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles won the Grammy Award, for "Best Country Collaboration with Vocals" for "Who Says You Can't Go Home". The band also won an award for Best Rock Song at the People's Choice Awards with "Who Says You Can't Go Home."
Soon after the release of Have A Nice Day, the band started gearing up for the new 2005–2006 worldwide Have A Nice Day Tour. This tour, being shorter than previous ones with only seventy-five shows originally planned, took the band to numerous stages and stadiums throughout the world. The tour was a significant commercial success, as the group played to 2,002,000 fans, and the tour grossed a total $191 million. The tour was the third-highest-grossing tour of 2006 taking in just over $131 million, just behind The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang World Tour and Madonna's Confessions Tour. On November 14, 2006, Bon Jovi were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame alongside James Brown and Led Zeppelin.
[edit] Lost Highway (2007–08)
In June 2007, Bon Jovi released their tenth studio album, Lost Highway. The album influences the band's rock sound with that of country music following the success of a country version of the band's 2006 single "Who Says You Can't Go Home", a duet with Jennifer Nettles.
To promote the new album, Bon Jovi made several television appearances, including the 6th annual CMT Awards in Nashville, American Idol, and MTV Unplugged, as well as playing at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium.[20] They also performed ten promotional gigs in the U.S., Canada, the UK and Japan. As part of the 'tour', Bon Jovi were the first group to perform at London's new O2 Arena (formerly the Millennium Dome) when it opened to the public on June 24, 2007. The 23,000-seater stadium sold out within 30 minutes of tickets being released.[21]
Lost Highway topped the charts in United States, Japan, Australia, Europe, and Canada. The album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and the albums first single "(You Want To) Make a Memory" was nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 2008 Grammy Awards. The albums third single "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" won the CMT Music Award for the Collaborative Video of the Year in 2008.[22] Presenter LeAnn Rimes accepted the award on behalf of the band, as Bon Jovi was not at the awards ceremony.[23] The song was also nominated for the Academy of Country Music Award for Vocal Event of the Year.[24]
In October 2007 the band announced the Lost Highway Tour. Starting with the 10 shows to open the brand new, Newark, New Jersey Prudential Center, the band toured Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and then Europe, finishing in the summer. In early December 2007 the band took time off from their Canadian tour to become the first ever American band to headline the Royal Variety Performance in Liverpool, England, performing in front of the Queen herself.[25] While the band was on tour in Australia, Bon Jovi have landed eight albums in ARIA Charts in the wake of their first tour in 12 years.
The tour was the highest grossing tour of 2008 in Billboard's rankings, with ticket sales of $210.6 million, reported from November 14, 2007 through Nov.11, 2008.[26] In all, 2,157,675 tickets were sold during 2008.[26] Combined with $16.4 million in 2007 from the Newark shows, making a combined gross of $227 million in ticket sales. In Pollstar's calculus for North America, the Lost Highway Tour had the highest gross for 2008 at $70.4 million.[27]
[edit] The Circle and Greatest Hits (2009–present)
In April 2009, Phil Griffin's documentary on the band, "When We Were Beautiful", debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, chronicling Bon Jovi's ups and downs over 25 years and following the band on their latest Lost Highway tour.
In June 2009, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame. That month they also recorded a cover of the song "Stand By Me" with Iranian singer Andy Madadian, to show solidarity for those affected by political unrest in Iran. Parts of the song were sung in Persian.
On November 10, 2009, the band released their 11th studio album, entitled The Circle. The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 163 000 copies in its first week. The album is a return to rock n' roll after their Nashville influenced album, Lost Highway. To promote the album, Bon Jovi performed "We Weren't Born to Follow", the first single off the album, on the result show of the rock week of the TV show, The X-Factor. The song also was performed during the Fest der Freiheit on November 9 in Berlin, a memorial for the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
On December 12, 2009, Bon Jovi were ranked #9 on Billboard's top 25 touring artists of the decade after grossing (US)$419,481,741 from 249 shows, of which 244 were sellouts.[28]
On January 31, 2010, Bon Jovi performed for the first time at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards. They performed the songs “We Weren’t Born to Follow” off their new album The Circle, “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” from their album Have a Nice Day, and fans voted for the last song and chose “Livin’ on a Prayer.” Bon Jovi was nominated for a 2010 Grammy for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for "We Weren't Born To Follow."
Bon Jovi headed out on the road once again on February 19, 2010, embarking on The Circle Tour, their largest tour since the Jersey Syndicate tour in the late 1980s. When it concludes in 2011, the tour will have consisted of 135 shows in 30 countries.[29]
On April 11, 2010, Bon Jovi played in Dallas. A short stream of this show was available through the band's website, and viewers were able to buy tickets to three of their shows in Toronto, Chicago, and New Jersey all of which would happen this coming summer.
On April 19, it was announced that special editions of Bon Jovi albums from 1984 to 2007 will be released. These albums will feature new artwork and photos from the time period of when the albums were released. They will also feature live recordings of select songs on the album recorded on the tour that supported the album. The albums were released on May 11.
Bon Jovi had planned to release a greatest hits album in 2009, but the project got sidelined after the group came up with enough material for a brand new studio album, Jon commenting that "the state of the world at this point in time gave us a lot to write about". That doesn't mean the best-of set has been put on hold forever, Jon says "it will come out in 2010". Along with a few never-before-released songs, the compilation will also feature tracks not featured on Bon Jovi's 1994 Cross Road greatest hits. "It'll be a new greatest hits because the last one was 15 years ago in'94. So you had everything from These Days forward. And what is this my fifth album in this decade? So at least six studio records and a solo thing. And then I'm sure you'll still end up having to put 'Living On A Prayer' on it but there won't be 'Runaway' on it. It won't have the early early stuff because we'll have had more hits since then."[1]
In July 2010 Bon Jovi posted pictures on their Facebook page from the photo shoot for the Greatest Hits album, suggesting a release in late 2010.
[edit] Band members
- Current members
- Touring musicians
- Former members
- Alec John Such – bass guitar, backing vocals (1983–94). Returned for one live performance of "Wanted Dead or Alive" in New Jersey in 2001.
[edit] Discography
- Studio albums
| - Compilation albums
- Live albums
- Box Sets
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[edit] Festival appearances
List of Bon Jovi festival appearances [2][30]
- HullabaLOU Music Festival, Louisville, KY, USA (July 23, 2010)
- Rock in Rio Festival, Madrid, Spain (June 2010)
- Summerfest 2009, Milwaukee, WI, USA (June-July 2009)
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA, USA (April 2009) [3]
- Rock in Rio Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (May-June 2008) [4]
- Live Earth 2007, East Rutherford, NJ, USA (July 2007) [5]
- Summerfest 2007, Milwaukee, WI, USA (June-July 2007) [6]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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- Buckley, Peter (2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-201-2.
- ^ Allmusic.com
- ^ Rollingstone.com
- ^ Dimery 2006 pg. 552, "Bon Jovi did the unthinkable with this album-they turned heavy metal into a pop genre that women would be able to love."
- ^ Buckley 2003, p. 97, "Heavy metal is played by big ugly men with greasy hair and bad teeth. Or so everyone thought until Bon Jovi came along...The 'pop metal' tag is one that will follow Bon Jovi for eternity,"
- ^ BBC.co.uk
- ^ "Bon Jovi History". Historyking.com. http://www.historyking.com/Music-History/Bon-Jovi-History.html. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ^ http://www.bonjovi.com/story/news-live/bon_jovi_to_play_in_peru_in_september_2010
- ^ "Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful". Top 40 Charts.com. 2009-04-06. http://top40-charts.com/news/Metal-Hard-Rock/BON-JOVI-WHEN-WE-WERE-BEAUTIFUL--Documentary-Celebrates-Bands-25-Year-Career/47464.html. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ^ "Bon Jovi to enter UK Hall of Fame". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 2006-10-16. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6055938.stm. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
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- ^ "海外グループの歴代アルバム初動売上記録TOP3". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/73631/full/#rk_top3. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
- ^ "Everything Bon Jovi". http://www.everythingbonjovi.com/Discography/Albums/132-Sex-Sells.
- ^ MSN.com
- ^ "Bon Jovi sell out first Dome gig". BBC News. April 20, 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6575577.stm. Retrieved July 8, 2009.
- ^ "2008 Winners". CMT. 2008. http://www.cmt.com/microsites/cmt-music-awards/2008/winners.jhtml. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ "Backstage With Rascal Flatts, LeAnn Rimes, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss". CMT. 2008-04-16. http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1585690/backstage-with-rascal-flatts-leann-rimes-robert-plant-and-alison-krauss.jhtml. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ "43rd Academy of Country Music Awards". CBS. http://www.cbs.com/specials/43acma/. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
- ^ "Bon Jovi top Royal Variety bill". BBC News. 2007-11-06. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7080509.stm. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
- ^ a b Waddell, Ray (2008-12-11). "Bon Jovi Scores 2008's Top-Grossing Tour". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/bon-jovi-scores-2008-s-top-grossing-tour-1003921575.story. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ "Madonna biggest 2008 North American tour attraction". Reuters. Yahoo! News. 2008-12-30. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081230/music_nm/us_tours. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
- ^ "Top 25 Touring Artists of the Decade". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/features/top-touring-artists-of-the-decade-1004053065.story. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
- ^ "Bon Jovi Announces Meadowloands Concerts". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/news/bon-jovi-announces-meadowlands-concerts-1004029629.story. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
- ^ "Bon Jovi Festival Appearances". Bon Jovi. FanShake. Archived from the original on 2010-05-14. http://www.fanshake.com/artists/bon-jovi/detail/. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
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