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Bon Jovi In April 2009, Phil Griffin’s documentary on the band, “When We Were Beautiful,” debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival, chronicling Bon Jovi’s ups and downs over 25 years and following the band on their latest Lost Highway tour.
In June 2009, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame. That month they also recorded a cover of the song “Stand By Me” with Iranian singer Andy Madadian, to show solidarity for those affected by political unrest in Iran. Parts of the song were sung in Persian.
On November 10, 2009, the band released their 11th studio album, entitled The Circle. The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 163 000 copies in its first week. The album is a return to rock n’ roll after their Nashville influenced album, Lost Highway. To promote the album, Bon Jovi performed “We Weren’t Born to Follow”, the first single off the album, on the result show of the rock week of the TV show, The X-Factor. The song also was performed during the Fest der Freiheit on November 9 in Berlin, a memorial for the Fall of the Berlin Wall..
On December 12, 2009, Bon Jovi were ranked #9 on Billboard’s top 25 touring artists of the decade after grossing (US)9,481,741 from 249 shows, of which 244 were sellouts.Touring begins again for the band on February 19, 2010, when they embark on ‘The Circle’ tour, their largest tour since the Jersey Syndicate tour in the late 1980s. The tour will consist of 135 shows in 30 countries.
In June 2007,released their tenth studio album, Lost Highway. The album influences the band’s rock sound with that of country music following the success of a country version of the band’s 2006 single “Who Says You Can’t Go Home”, a duet with Jennifer Nettles.
To promote the new album, Bon Jovi made several television appearances, including the 6th annual CMT Awards in Nashville, American Idol, and MTV Unplugged, as well as playing at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium.They also performed ten promotional gigs in the U.S., Canada, the UK and Japan.
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As part of the ‘tour’, Bon Jovi were the first group to perform at London’s new O2 Arena (formerly the Millennium Dome) when it opened to the public on June 24, 2007. The 23,000-seater stadium sold out within 30 minutes of tickets being released. Reviews for the CD were not very strong. Rolling Stone said “This was a very weak effort. To be honest, this has been a terrible band for the last 3 albums.”
Lost Highway topped the charts in United States, Japan, Australia, Europe, and Canada. The album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and the albums first single “(You Want To) Make a Memory” was nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 2008 Grammy Awards. The albums third single “Till We Ain’t Strangers Anymore” won the CMT Music Award for the Collaborative Video of the Year in 2008.Presenter LeAnn Rimes accepted the award on behalf of the band, as Bon Jovi was not at the awards ceremony.The song was also nominated for the Academy of Country Music Award for Vocal Event of the Year.
In October 2007 Bon Jovi band announced the Lost Highway Tour. Starting with the 10 shows to open the brand new, Newark, New Jersey Prudential Center, the band toured Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and then Europe, finishing in the summer. In early December 2007 the band took time off from their Canadian tour to become the first ever American band to headline the Royal Variety Performance in Liverpool, England, performing in front of the Queen herself. While the band was on tour in Australia, Bon Jovi have landed eight albums in ARIA Charts in the wake of their first tour in 12 years.
The tour was the highest grossing tour of 2008 in Billboard’s rankings, with ticket sales of 0.6 million, reported from November 14, 2007 through Nov.11, 2008.In all, 2,157,675 tickets were sold during 2008. Combined with .4 million in 2007 from the Newark shows, making a combined gross of 7 million in ticket sales. In Pollstar’s calculus for North America, the Lost Highway Tour had the fifth-highest gross for 2008 at .4 million.
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