{"id":30494,"date":"2024-10-01T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-1-1988-bon-jovi-scored-their-first-uk-1-with-new-jersey\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T18:02:25","slug":"on-this-day-oct-1-1988-bon-jovi-scored-their-first-uk-1-with-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-1-1988-bon-jovi-scored-their-first-uk-1-with-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Oct. 1, 1988: Bon Jovi scored their first UK #1 with &#8216;New Jersey&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-01\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Oct. 1, 1988 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bon Jovi<\/strong> scored their first U.K. #1 with their fourth studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">New Jersey<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which also peaked at #1 in the U.S., where it spent four weeks on top.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album featured such hit singles as &#8220;Bad Medicine,\u201d &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be There for You,\u201d \u201cBorn to Be My Baby\u201d and \u201cLay Your Hands on Me.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prior to <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">New Jersey<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, the band\u2019s best-charting record in the U.K. was 1986&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Slippery When Wet<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which peaked at #6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Over the course of their career, Bon Jovi would earn five #1 albums in the U.K., the others being 1992\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Keep the Faith<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 1994\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Cross Road \u2013 The Best of Bon Jovi<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 1995\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">These Days<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> and 2000\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Crush<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Oct. 1, 1988 &#8230; Bon Jovi scored their first U.K. #1 with their fourth studio album,\u00a0New Jersey, which also peaked at #1 in the U.S., where it spent four weeks on top.\u00a0 The album featured such hit singles as &#8220;Bad Medicine,\u201d &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be There for You,\u201d \u201cBorn<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-1-1988-bon-jovi-scored-their-first-uk-1-with-new-jersey\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}