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Forbes
3 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Bon Jovi's Unlikely Single Turns Out To Be One Of The Band's Biggest Hits
Bon Jovi and Pitbull's 'Now or Never' logs its sixteenth week on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart, ... More ranking as the band's fourth-longest radio hit on the top 40 tally. (MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/) Jon Bon Jovi of US rock band Bon Jovi performs at summer rock festival 'Super Rock 84' on their first visit to Japan, Naogoya Baseball Stadium, Aichi, Japan, 4th August 1984. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/) Bon Jovi scored the most unlikely of hits earlier this year by teaming up with multi-genre musician Pitbull. The latter star has landed a number of hits throughout the past few years by repurposing melodies and interpolating hooks from older, familiar smashes by other artists, reworking them into something exciting and new for a different audience. He took parts of "It's My Life" by the rock band and turned it into his 2025 smash "Now or Never," an electronically charged dance-pop cut. The tune sounds little like anything Bon Jovi has produced before, and yet it has become one of the group's biggest hits. "Now or Never" is present on the Pop Airplay chart, Billboard's ranking of the most successful tunes at top 40 radio in the United States. This frame, it dips 10 spaces to No. 33, so it is approaching the bottom of the 40-spot roster — but it's not done being played at pop radio just yet. Last week, the single reached its all-time peak, and the length of time it has spent on the list shows just how popular the tune has become. As of this frame, "Now or Never" has spent 16 weeks on the Pop Airplay tally. It ranks as Bon Jovi's fourth-longest-charting track on the radio list, out of a total of a lucky 13 placements dating back decades. "Always" stands out as Bon Jovi's biggest win on the Pop Airplay ranking, both in terms of length of time spent on the roster and peak position. That track, which arrived in 1994, rose all the way to the runner-up space and spent exactly half a year on the ranking. "It's My Life" — which, of course, introduced the chorus that would later center "Now or Never" — missed that longevity record by one week. "Bed of Roses" is just two frames ahead of "Now or Never," with 18 weeks spent on the Pop Airplay chart. "Now or Never" could match that sum if its decline slows, but if it suffers another tumble like it did this time around, it will disappear very soon.
BBC News
31-01-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
How Scotland went from title contenders to worried about Italy
Six Nations: Scotland v ItalyVenue: Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Date: Saturday, 1 February Kick-off: 14:15 GMTCoverage: Watch live on BBC One, listen on Radio 5 live, Radio Scotland & BBC Sounds and follow live on the BBC Sport website and app. You'd think that after 25 years of messing with the emotions of Scottish rugby fans - all the false dawns, all the misplaced hope - the Gods of the Six Nations would be bored with them by no, A few weeks ago, Gregor Townsend beamed brightly as he spoke about his largely injury-free squad. It was a time of wholesale optimism. Old sceptics, hard-bitten by a quarter of a century of nothingness, were beginning to turn. Maybe, just maybe, this was Scotland's the week was done, Sione Tuipulotu was out of the tournament. The captain, the powerhouse, the playmaker, one of the great personalities of the team - Scott Cummings got injured and Scotland's beast factor was reduced. If you want to contend in the Six Nations then you better bring as many heavies as you can find. Cummings was out and so was his understudy, Max Williamson, the young brute who showed up so wonderfully against the mighty Boks in the Gods haven't let up. Josh Bayliss would almost certainly have been in the squad against Italy, but Townsend lost him to injury last Richardson, who'd have been on the bench as back-up hooker, is on the casualty list. Dave Cherry is now first-choice. The last time Cherry, a good set-piece man but a shock inclusion, made any kind of noise with Scotland was when he fell down the stairs in the team hotel in Nice during the World Cup. He's not been seen since in the international Gray is in from the start by necessity. Gray hasn't played a Test match in two years, has only played three times since late October and hasn't played at all since that hope from before? Hmm. Let's call it cautious optimism at best. Townsend still has an excellent team with a backline laden with world class, but it's not as good as it might have been - and what-might-have-been isn't cutting it anymore with Scotland. Injuries or no injuries. If this was a rock band that Townsend was running instead of a rugby team then this would be the Now Or Never tour. It's his eighth Six Nations and, by his own admission, something needs to happen and are on the sweet spot in terms of age profile, caps won and experiences learned. It's a tad early to say now or never, but the broader point is correct. They don't have start with Italy, a must-win against a team that beat them in Rome last time and which is largely unchanged since then. In the Six Nations a year ago, Italy beat Scotland and Wales, drew with France in Paris (France played with 14 for half the game and Italy hit the post from a penalty to win it in the last play) and only lost to England by three don't lie, but they mislead. In 2023, in Murrayfield, Scotland won 26-14 with Blair Kinghorn scoring a hat-trick. The reality of that game was that with 79 minutes played the gap was only four in Scotland's favour and Italy were banging on their try-line to wipe it were under the posts and Murrayfield was on its feet, roaring in encouragement and fear. Scotland survived, broke away and scored down the other end. The 12-point gap didn't reflect their brush with the dark side. The way we view Italy has changed - or ought to have changed. Some, perhaps subconsciously, still see them as a nailed-on win with only the margin up for discussion. That was the case for a long time, but not have class and power all over their team, they have clever creators, deadly finishers with dynamism and belligerence. Scotland have lost more Six Nations games to Italy (eight) than all the other nations combined, so the warning signs are there, flashing blue. Would it be a massive surprise if Italy won? Not in the minds of anybody who's been paying attention to has injuries, but he's not wallowing. He has absolute faith in Stafford McDowall filling in for Tuipulotu and bringing some of his ball-carrying and defensive solidity to the is not Tuipulotu but he's still a seriously accomplished footballer, a leader, a big presence who will relish a run in the team. Save for Cherry and the undercooked, but freakish unit, Gray, then this is an impressive Scotland team with an impactful they'll most likely need it. A recurring theme throughout last season's championship was Scotland's fast starts and slow finishes, the opening day hair-raiser against Wales being the classic illustration of points scored across the four quarters of games they went from first, to third, to joint fifth to sixth in the final quarter. For points conceded they were again at their weakest in the final has some terrific firepower on the bench. George Horne, Tom Jordan and Kyle Rowe can create things out of nothing. Gregor Brown, with his physicality and skill-set, could be a real breakout star. Jack Dempsey hasn't played a whole pile of rugby but his carrying and his intensity might be just the ticket to get Scotland over the could be nervous, it could be positively terrifying, but it's the Six Nations and it's back and it's a hell of a time to be alive.
