{"id":117892,"date":"2024-06-17T21:01:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T21:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/17\/bon-jovi-has-a-top-five-hit-with-forever\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T21:01:29","slug":"bon-jovi-has-a-top-five-hit-with-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/17\/bon-jovi-has-a-top-five-hit-with-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon Jovi has a top-five hit with &#8216;FOREVER&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-17\/M_BonJoviForever_031424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bon Jovi<\/strong> is on the charts once again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band\u2019s latest album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">FOREVER<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, debuts at #5 on the<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-eight-weeks-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235710880\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Billboard<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">200 Album chart, making it the band\u2019s 14th top-10 hit.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The\u00a0New Jersey rockers moved 52,000 equivalent album units to land in the top five. Thanks to 50,000 of that\u00a0being\u00a0complete album sales,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">FOREVER<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0also debuts at #1 on the Top Album Sales chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">FOREVER<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is now Bon Jovi\u2019s 22nd album to chart on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200. Their first was 1986\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Slippery When Wet<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which was also their first #1 album.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bon Jovi also landed #1 albums in the &#8217;90s, 2000s and 2010s, so with <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">FOREVER<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, they join <strong>AC\/DC<\/strong>, <strong>Def Leppard<\/strong>, <strong>Metallica<\/strong> and <strong>U2<\/strong> as the only bands to have a top-10 album in each of the last five decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, in the U.K., after a close battle for the top spot, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">FOREVER<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> wound up debuting at #3 on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-longest-running-number-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Official Charts<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, behind <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Tortured Poets\u00a0Department<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> at #1 and <strong>Charli XCX<\/strong>\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">BRAT <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">at #2.<\/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 on the charts once again. The band\u2019s latest album, FOREVER, debuts at #5 on the Billboard 200 Album chart, making it the band\u2019s 14th top-10 hit.\u00a0 The\u00a0New Jersey rockers moved 52,000 equivalent album units to land in the top five. Thanks to 50,000 of that\u00a0being\u00a0complete album<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/06\/17\/bon-jovi-has-a-top-five-hit-with-forever\/\">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\/117892"}],"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=117892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}