Bon Jovi Music Videos

American rock band · 1983–present

The New Jersey band that outlasted every act it was filed alongside. Formed in Sayreville in 1983 around Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, and bassist Alec John Such, they spent two albums as a competent hard rock act before Slippery When Wet arrived in 1986 and sold in numbers the genre had not seen. It held No.1 on the Billboard 200 for eight weeks, carries a rare Diamond certification, and produced You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' on a Prayer, and Wanted Dead or Alive in a single twelve-month run, with Wild in the Streets closing the record. New Jersey topped the chart in 1988 and added two more No.1 singles, Bad Medicine and I'll Be There for You, alongside Lay Your Hands on Me.

What separated them from their contemporaries was refusing to stay in the decade that made them. Jon's Blaze of Glory reached No.1 on its own in 1990, Keep the Faith and These Days traded the gloss for something heavier, and the 1994 hits collection carried two new songs, Always and Someday I'll Be Saturday Night. Crush restarted the run in 2000 with "It's My Life," and "Who Says You Can't Go Home" made them the first rock band to reach No.1 on Billboard's country chart. After September 11 they recorded America the Beautiful for the NFL. Sixteen studio albums and more than 130 million records sold sit behind a 2018 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a 2006 induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame, and three of the founding five are still in the band.