The legendary band continues its touring slate with a summer stadium co-headlining trek with Def Leppard
Journey’s timeless anthem, “Don’t Stop Believin’,” has been officially declared the “Biggest Song of All Time” by Forbes. According to the RIAA, the hit rock song likely heard by everyone globally is now an 18-times platinum-certified single.
Released in October 1981 for their seventh studio album Escape through Columbia Records, “Don’t Stop Believin’” quickly became the band’s signature song. Neal Schon, founder and lead guitar of Journey wrote the instantly recognizable bass line, and keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jonathan Cain had kept the song title from the encouragement his father gave him as a struggling musician living on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. Decades after its release, the song became the best-selling digital track from the 20th century, with over seven million downloads.
The enduring anthem has garnered myriad achievements, including being selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” becoming ten-times platinum in Australia, seven-times platinum in New Zealand, four-times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in Denmark, and in 2021 receiving the Grammy Hall of Fame award. In 2021, it was ranked No. 133 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Journey is currently on a co-headlining arena tour of the USA with Def Leppard, before bringing their much-anticipated 50th Anniversary Tour to the UK and Ireland this fall. Main support on all dates comes from the acclaimed Illinois power-pop quartet Cheap Trick, who are also celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.
