No Richie on current leg of the tour

Being no 1 in first week dont make a hit album You have to sustain the sales for few weeks
Till date album has only sold 140,000 units in 3 weeks in the US
Circle by 3rd week had sold about 300,000 It will be a miracle if the
album achieves Good Status in the US

It still doesn't mean it bombed- getting to number 1 is still an achievement. Charting at 31, now that would be bombing. They'd have even made number 1 in the UK if it weren't for that pesky David Bowie...

It won't be an album folk remember, but worldwide chart positions were respectable.

Ok but are you or anyone else to that matter able to count the "illegal" downloads of the album? Could be in the millions for all we know.

So what? it's same s*it for every artist, been like that for years.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/04/03/richie...usiness-money/

Richie Sambora is bailing on the Bon Jovi world tour because of "personal issues," but it has NOTHING to do with substance abuse ... it's all about a war that's exploded between Jon and Richie.

Sources directly connected to Bon Jovi tell TMZ ... tensions between Jon and Richie have been running high for years and it's finally erupted. One source tells us, "It's a classic Jagger/Richards blowup."

Our sources say part of the problem is that Jon constantly belittles Richie. But there's another part of the problem -- they're fighting over money.

Richie was a no-show at a Bon Jovi concert in Calgary last night, and yesterday he posted on the Bon Jovi website that he was pulling out because of "personal issues."

During the Calgary concert, Jon told the crowd, "I had two choices: pack up and go home or give you everything I got ... Richie Sambora won't be performing for a while. If there's ever a night I need you, it's tonight, Calgary!"

In the meantime, Richie's been spending personal time with his daughter -- the two were on vacation in Hawaii last week. We're told it was an 11-day trip filled with zip-lining, hikes, paddle boarding, and chilling at the pool.

Enough already making crap music since 2000...now please breakup or retired for good... for me Bj RIP at 2000..

http://drycounty.com/jovitalk/showthread.php?t=55338

stop being silly, allwyn

To be honest the album has neither flopped or been a hit. Not sure why it not selling in millions means it has flopped, although I am not sure why it reaching number 1 for a week means it is a hit.

It will probably turn into a failure by Bon Jovi's standard, but it will not be a flop.

Well, whatever the reason, hopefully all will work out and he can get back on the road with the band. It really isn't the same without him.
Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the new music.

"Keep on Rockin' in a free world!"

So it was money, it's always money.

That's for all the people that said that they didn't do it for the money now because they had so much, that they were into it for "the music".

Lol.