In which Bon Jovi provides an inspirational soundtrack for an acrophobic worker to take that step out onto the wire, or maybe it's just paranoid schizophrenia that's getting the best of our hero.
Still on the fence about Billboard's decision to include YouTube data in their Hot 100 chart tabulation? Well, get off it because Bon Jovi "Livin On A Prayer" has re-entered the charts thanks to some dancing dude in Boston.
The reason why a five year old "viral" is making a 26 year old song chart is apparently because a version of it was uploaded and promoted by viral aggregator utrend.tv, netting 11 million fresh views. And Billboard — who to their credit, is amazingly transparent about this stuff — says that those views account for 94% of the "chart points," and the other 6% from the 4,000 downloads sold that week (an 11% rise from the previous) and approximately 500 radio plays.
How you choose to view all this depends on how cynical you are, but it's clear that the Hot 100 is going to someday essentially be an online chart. Which might be what it should be...
In the meantime, I can promise you that somebody somewhere is probably realizing that the Payola window has moved from radio stations to the Internet...
Editor Jacquelyn London has shaped many a music video from her bay, so it's not a surprise to see her name pop up as a director. Here she compiled an On The Road video for Bon Jovi, combining BTS she shot, with live footage and conceptual content that runs on the band's projection screens.
Jon Bon has the band back together and they're gigging at small rooms, like the local burlesque club and the photogenic-ly grimy boxing gym. You know, typical Bon Jovi venues.