Thursday, June 4, 2026

Bon Jovi’s Run at Number 1 Was Not “Forever” as Taylor, Billie Retake Top of Chart After 5 Days

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Bon Jovi’s new album debuted at number 1 on Friday on iTunes.

The album, called “Forever,” lasted five days in the top spot. But today it’s number 3, as Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish have pushed past it.

“Forever” has not engendered must streaming, and no tracks from it have caught on. But this is to be expected with legacy acts. Radio refuses to play new songs from the classic rock artists who keep them going 24/7.

Everyone from the Rolling Stones to Bruce Springsteen have experienced this strange phenomenon. Frankly, they should just pull their music off FM radio entirely. But they won’t.

“Forever” will barely last a week and then it will be gone. Since Jon Bon Jovi says he can’t tour to promote it, a lot of hard work will go down the drain. Too bad.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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