{"id":117864,"date":"2024-06-12T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/12\/bon-jovis-forever-in-a-battle-to-top-the-u-k-chart\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:03:00","slug":"bon-jovis-forever-in-a-battle-to-top-the-u-k-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/12\/bon-jovis-forever-in-a-battle-to-top-the-u-k-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon Jovi\u2019s &#8216;FOREVER&#8217; in a battle to top the U.K. chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-11\/M_BonJoviForever_031424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bon Jovi<\/strong> is in a battle for #1 in the U.K.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band\u2019s new album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">FOREVER<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, is currently the front-runner to top the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/charli-xcx-brat-bon-jovi-forever-uk-chart-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>U.K. Official Album<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> chart, which would make it the New Jersey rockers\u2019 sixth U.K. #1.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But while Bon Jovi is currently leading the race,\u00a0they&#8217;re facing some stiff competition from <strong>Charli XCX<\/strong>\u2019s new album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">BRAT<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which as of Tuesday is only 1,300 chart units behind <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">FOREVER<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">If Bon Jovi&#8217;s\u00a0album indeed\u00a0nabs the top spot, it will be\u00a0their first\u00a0U.K. #1 since 2000\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Crush<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\">. They first landed on\u00a0the top of the chart with 1988\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">New Jersey,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\">which was followed by\u00a01992\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Keep The<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\"> Faith, the 1994 greatest hits album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Cross Road<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0and 1995\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">These Days<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island Bon Jovi is in a battle for #1 in the U.K. The band\u2019s new album, FOREVER, is currently the front-runner to top the U.K. Official Album chart, which would make it the New Jersey rockers\u2019 sixth U.K. #1.\u00a0 But while Bon Jovi is currently leading the race,\u00a0they&#8217;re facing some<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/12\/bon-jovis-forever-in-a-battle-to-top-the-u-k-chart\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}