Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

This is the song that started it all. In 1980, then-unknown New Jersey songwriter Jon Bongiovi recorded a rough version of this song at his cousin’s studio in Manhattan. He recorded it again two years ...

Bon Jovi have remained on top of the Irish album chart for a second week. The group's Greatest Hits release debuted at number one last week and holds off strong competition from Cheryl Cole - who ...

Hair metal, glam rock, pop metal — whatever you want to call it, the big hooks and big hair that dominated hard rock in the Reagan years reached its apex in 1987. Guns N’ Roses and Def Leppard ...

In the years since Richie Sambora left Bon Jovi unexpectedly in 2013, it’s been guitarist Phil X, his replacement, who has ...