Bon Jovi is a hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s.
In 2006, the band won a Grammy for best Country Collaboration for Who Says You Can't Go Home with Jennifer Nettles from Sugarland and also became the first rock band to reach #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart with the same song. They have also been nominated twice for the smash hit It's My Life and two songs from the album Bounce, Misunderstood and Everyday .
Throughout their career, the band has released ten studio albums, of which nine have gone platinum. In addition, the band has charted 19 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, four of which reached #1 (You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' On A Prayer, Bad Medicine, and I'll Be There for You). The band also holds the record for the most weeks for a hard rock album at #1 on the Billboard 200 with Slippery When Wet , as well as the most Top 10 singles from a hard rock album, with New Jersey , which charted five such singles.
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