DEF: Bon Jovi “Lay Your Hands on Me”
Bon Jovi‘s 1988 album New Jersey produced five Top 10 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1989, the fourth of those songs — “Lay Your Hands on Me” — rose to a...
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MOTW: Livin’ La Vida
What do you get when you mashup up the music from Coldplay’s Viva La Vida with the lyrics to Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer? You get this week’s smashing mashup of the week...
DEF: Bon Jovi “Runaway”
Since their first chart appearance in 1984, New Jersey-based band Bon Jovi have placed twenty-eight songs on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, with nineteen of those songs reaching the Top 40. Both of those runs started with...
DEF: Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer”
Over the course of nearly three and a half decades, New Jersey-based band Bon Jovi have made thirty appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, with nineteen of those songs reaching the Top 40, ten climbing...
DEF: Bon Jovi “You Give Love a Bad Name”
New Jersey-based band Bon Jovi have hit number one on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart four times, all between 1986 and 1989. That run of success began with “You Give Love a Bad Name,” which exactly...
Title Title On The Tenth: “Lay Your Hands On Me”
This past month, the Supremes defeated Regina and Mother’s Finest handily to win the “Baby Love” title title. Also this past month, the November 23 Daily Eighties Flashback featured the song “Lay Your Hands On...
MOTW: The Power Of Life
What do you get when you mix Huey Lewis and The News with Bon Jovi? Here is a mashup of The Power of Love with It’s My Life by DJ Schmolli. It’s your mashup...
Once Upon A Time … Not So Long Ago …
Exactly 25 years ago yesterday, Valentine’s Day was greeted, appropriately enough, with a new number 1 song on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart that would tell the story of Tommy and Gina, who were “down on [their]...
Giving Number One A Bad Name
Over the past three decades, New Jersey-based band Bon Jovi has hit the top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart many times, with a long string of hits that starts with “Runaway” reaching number 39...
Bon Jovi Finding Country Again
I saw heard this song on the radio and then discovered that it had over 2 million plays on YouTube. It looks like Bon Jovi is finding country again with a duet with Leann...
