Song is newly crowed from YouTube
Bon Jovi has earned its second video in YouTube’s Billion Views Club with “Livin’ On A Prayer.” The song, released on 1986’s Slippery When Wet, captures the feat nearly 13 years after its release on the platform in June 2009.
“Just callin’ out to say thank you to everybody on YouTube for our one billionth view of the ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ video. Guess you liked it. We liked it, too,” frontman and namesake Jon Bon Jovi (JBJ) says in a social media video on Wednesday (Feb 1st).
The band initially became members of the YouTube Billion Views Club with the video for “It’s My Life” in July 2021.
Bon Jovi also teases big plans are in the works for the band’s 40th anniversary in 2023.
“Thank you everybody for continuing to support Bon Jovi for 40 years. Lots of big things in the works for our 40th anniversary so get ready for that,” he adds.
It’s unclear what those plans are as of press time, but JBJ confirmed in 2021 that he is compiling a follow up to Bon Jovi’s 2004 box set, 100 Million Fans Can’t Be Wrong, for the band’s 40th anniversary. The rocker revealed that his team is archiving material from their vaults for the project.
Also, former founding guitarist Richie Sambora hinted last year that there may be a reunion in 2023, ten years after he abruptly left the band during their Because We Can Tour due to “personal matters.”
“It’s a possibility. We’re talking a bit,” he says.
Sambora and his Bon Jovi bandmates last reunited when the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. The appearance and four song medley performance marked the first time in five years that Sambora had shared the stage with the group. It was also the first time in 24 years original bassist Alec John Such, who passed away last year, had reunited publicly with the band since being replaced by longtime bassist Hugh McDonald in 1994.
