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Recorded: 1984-1994

Released: Oct. 18, 1994

Rating: 4.100 (average of 5 ratings)

Genre: rock > hair band

Quotable: --

Album Tracks:

  1. Livin’ on a Prayer
  2. Keep the Faith
  3. Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night
  4. Always
  5. Wanted Dead or Alive
  6. Lay Your Hands on Me
  7. You Give Love a Bad Name
  8. Bed of Roses
  9. Blaze of Glory
  10. Prayer ‘94
  11. Bad Medicine
  12. I’ll Be There for You
  13. In and Out of Love
  14. Runaway

Sales:

sales in U.S. only 4 million
sales in U.K. only - estimated 1.87 million
sales in all of Europe as determined by IFPI – click here to go to their site. 8 million
sales worldwide - estimated 20 million

Peak:

peak on U.S. Billboard album chart 8
peak on U.K. album chart 1 3

Singles/Hit Songs:

  • Runaway (2/11/84) #39 US, #5 AR
  • In and Out of Love (7/6/85) #69 US, #37 AR
  • You Give Love a Bad Name (8/9/86) #1 US, #14 UK, #9 AR
  • Livin’ on a Prayer (10/25/86) #1 US, #4 UK, #1 AR
  • Wanted Dead or Alive (11/1/86) #6a US, #13 UK, #13 AR
  • Bad Medicine (9/24/88) #1 US, #17 UK, #3 AR
  • I’ll Be There for You (1/28/89) #1 US, #18 UK, #5 AR
  • Lay Your Hands on Me (5/27/89) #7 US, #18 UK, #20 AR
  • Blaze of Glory (7/21/90) #1 US, #13 UK, #1 AR. Sales: 1 million. Airplay: 1 million
  • Keep the Faith (10/24/92) #29 US, #5 UK, #1 AR
  • Bed of Roses (1/23/93) #10 US, #13 UK, #25 AR, #39 AC
  • Always (9/24/94) #3a US, #2 UK, #4 AC. Sales: 1 million

Awards:

Rated one of the top 1000 albums of all time by Dave’s Music Database. Click to learn more. One of the Top 100 All-Time World’s Best-Selling Albums

Cross Road
Bon Jovi
Review:
“While Bon Jovi always managed to stick a couple of killer album tracks on their records, their main strength has always been singles. Cross Road collects all of their biggest hits, adding a couple of new songs and Jon Bon Jovi’s solo hit, Blaze of Glory, for good measure. Even the band’s detractors may not be able to resist the constant flow of big guitars, big hooks, and sweet melodies that pour out on Cross Road. After all, this is what state-of-the-art mainstream hard rock was all about in the late ‘80s” (Erlewine).

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Last updated March 28, 2008.