Artists · Billboard Hot 100

Bon Jovi

Charting Feb 25, 1984 → Nov 30, 2013 · 353 weeks with chart power

Charted in 2 of 2 markets · crowned Artist of the Week in all of them — Billboard Hot 100 353 wk (9 crowns), UK Singles Chart 294 wk (2 crowns)

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Image credits

Photo: Rosana Prada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Honours

Artist of the Week

Billboard Hot 100
9 crowns
Longest reign 4 weeks (Feb–Mar 1987) · First crown Nov 1986
UK Singles Chart
2 crowns
Longest reign 2 weeks (Dec 1994) · First crown Dec 1994
Global Music Power
11 crowns
19842014
Longest reign 6 weeks (Nov–Dec 1986) · First crown Nov 1986

Billboard Hot 100 · 353 wk UK Singles Chart · 294 wk Global Music Power · 488 wk

Peak Power: 2.87%; week of Mar 14, 1987
Career Power: 489; share-weeks
Crowns: 9; weeks crowned Artist of the Week

Peak Year: 124; September 1988 – September 1989
Peak Five Years: 255; February 1985 – February 1990
Top-five weeks: 35; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 353; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 3.73%; week of Nov 26, 1988
Comebacks: 4; Nov 1988 · Feb 1993 · Nov 1994 · May 2006, after 11 quiet years

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the chart's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Songs on the Billboard Hot 100

25 records · 489 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each song earned this artist: their weekly Power Share, split across their songs (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Record Power is the song's own figure, the same for every artist on it. Bar length compares songs within this list.

Song	Peak	Weeks	On chart	Power contributedPower	Record Power
AlwaysApple Music	#4December 1994	32	October 1994 – May 1995	76.9	75.0
Livin' On A PrayerApple Music	#1February 1987	22	December 1986 – November 2013	37.8	38.6
You Give Love A Bad NameApple Music	#1November 1986	24	September 1986 – February 1987	37.4	37.7
I'll Be There For YouApple Music	#1May 1989	22	March 1989 – July 1989	34.1	34.8
Bed Of RosesApple Music	#10March 1993	20	January 1993 – June 1993	33.7	33.1
Bad MedicineApple Music	#1November 1988	20	September 1988 – February 1989	32.2	33.0
Born To Be My BabyApple Music	#3February 1989	20	November 1988 – April 1989	32.1	33.1
Wanted Dead Or AliveApple Music	#7June 1987	17	April 1987 – August 1987	27.5	27.4
Who Says You Can't Go HomeApple Music	#23April 2006	26	January 2006 – July 2006	27.0	26.3
Living In SinApple Music	#9December 1989	19	October 1989 – February 1990	26.3	25.8
Lay Your Hands On MeApple Music	#7July 1989	16	June 1989 – September 1989	25.2	25.3
This Ain't A Love SongApple Music	#14August 1995	20	June 1995 – October 1995	24.7	24.4
It's My LifeApple Music	#33September 2000	20	August 2000 – December 2000	14.4	14.1
Keep The FaithApple Music	#29November 1992	16	October 1992 – February 1993	13.7	13.5
In These ArmsApple Music	#27June 1993	16	May 1993 – August 1993	12.6	12.8
(You Want To) Make A MemoryApple Music	#27May 2007	20	May 2007 – September 2007	7.6	7.3
RunawayApple Music	#39April 1984	13	February 1984 – May 1984	7.2	7.1
She Don't Know MeApple Music	#48July 1984	11	May 1984 – August 1984	4.4	4.3
Have A Nice DayApple Music	#53October 2005	15	October 2005 – February 2006	3.8	3.7
Thank You For Loving MeApple Music	#57March 2001	10	February 2001 – April 2001	2.9	2.8
Only LonelyApple Music	#54May 1985	8	April 1985 – June 1985	2.8	2.7
In And Out Of LoveApple Music	#69August 1985	6	August 1985 – September 1985	1.4	1.4
Lie To Me/Something For The PainApple Music	#76October 1995	9	September 1995 – December 1995	1.4	1.7
We Weren't Born To FollowApple Music	#68November 2009	4	October 2009 – December 2009	0.9	0.8
I'll Sleep When I'm DeadApple Music	#97August 1993	4	August 1993 – September 1993	0.4	0.5

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At their peak

1988 in music →

Bon Jovi's best twelve months on the Billboard Hot 100 ran from September 1988 to September 1989. The most powerful artists over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.