The only song from the album to reach the UK singles chart was "Gone, Gone, Gone", which made its debut there the following month, on August 11, and reached number 15 during a 10-week run. Īnother track from the album, " Begin the Beguine", entered that same chart five months later, in the July 21 issue, and got as high as number 37 during its five weeks there. The duet entered the magazine's list of the 50 most popular Easy Listening records in the US in the issue dated February 24, 1979, and peaked at number 15 over the course of 12 weeks.
The first song from the album to reach any of the charts in Billboard was a duet with Jane Olivor titled "The Last Time I Felt Like This" that was written for the 1978 film Same Time, Next Year and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to " Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday. It also made it to number 38 during a five-week run on the UK album chart. The album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's & Tapes chart in the issue dated February 24, 1979, and remained there for seven weeks, peaking at number 122. He did, however, cover two standards: " As Time Goes By" and " Begin the Beguine", the latter of which is given a disco arrangement.
Notable Live Performancesīon Jovi also performed this tune at some of the most-prominent venues. For instance, they rocked “It’s My Life” at Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003. And prior that that they played it at the Concert for New York, which was held in October of 2001 to benefit the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Moreover the following year the band rendered the song at the conclusion of the Winter Olympics, which were held in Utah.The Best Days of My Life is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on January 29, 1979, by Columbia Records and scaled back considerably on his more than decade-long practice of recording recent hit songs by other artists. Interesting to note is that a cover of this song (in conjunction with Usher’s 2004 track “Confessions”) by the cast of the television musical “Glee” actually reached number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2009. And for the record, in terms of the Hot 100 it performed even better than Bon Jovi’s original, which peaked at number 33. Moreover this track has been nominated for both a Grammy and Echo Award and was the third best-selling song of the year 2000.
Success of “It’s My Life”īon Jovi is known as a rock band who were slappin’ primarily in the late 20 th century. However, “It’s My Life”, which was released in 2000, is recognized as their greatest hit from the 21 st century.įor instance it topped the music charts in almost 10 nations. And this is in addition to peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart and making an appearance on four of Billboard’s listing, including Latin Pop Songs. So it’s understandable that this track has achieved double-Platinum status in the United States.Īnd generally speaking “It’s My Life” charted in over 20 countries. Wayne Isham, who has been directing Bon Jovi videos since the 1980s, also worked on the official clip for this song. And this music video went on to become Bon Jovi’s most-popular video on YouTube.
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