The song "Good Guys Don't Always Wear White" is featured in the movie The Cowboy Way. "Stranger in This Town - Count Basie Theater 1993" "Blaze of Glory - Count Basie Theater 1992" "Good Guys Don't Always Wear White - Studio Outtake" "With a Little Help From My Friends - St.Basie Theater 1992" "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - Fox Theater 1994" Keep the Faith Bonus Track in Japan and Europeġ998 Special Edition bonus CD PHCR-90021/22 No. Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell and New Jersey: Deluxe Editionĭisorderlies Soundtrack and 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be WrongĪlternate take of Keep the Faith Japan bonus track, taken from 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong. " The Boys Are Back in Town" ( Thin Lizzy cover) The Cowboy Way Soundtrack and 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong International bonus track (absent from North American releases) No.Ģ005 Deluxe Sound & Vision Bonus CD (also included the DVD Live from London). Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child Its namesake home video was voted "Best Video Cassette," and the single "Always" was voted "Song of the Year" and "Best Video Clip". The album itself won Metal Edge magazine's 1994 Readers' Choice Awards for "Album of the Year" and "Best Hits or Compilation Album". The album also debuted at number three on the New Zealand Albums Chart, peaking at number one in its second week and later being certified sectuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. It spent two weeks at number one in Australia and in 2022 it was certified thirteen-times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association for shipments exceeding 910,000 copies. The album became Bon Jovi's first number-one set in Japan, where it has sold more than 1.1 million copies. In 2007, it was also certified octuple platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for selling 8 million copies across Europe. The album topped the charts in several other European countries, including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland. The album was certified six times platinum by the BPI. In the United Kingdom, Cross Road debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and spent a total of five non-consecutive weeks atop the chart, later becoming the best-selling album of 1994. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album has sold 4,951,000 copies in the US as of September 2011, including 324,000 copies sold in 2006. It was certified four times platinum by the RIAA on Octodenoting shipments of four millions. In the United States, the album debuted and peaked at number 8 on the Billboard 200 the week of Novemwith 84,000 copies sold, the next week it dropped to number 13 and remained on the chart for fifty seven weeks. A video, also entitled Cross Road, was simultaneously released, containing 16 of the band's music videos. The original remastered album was released in 1998. In 2005, Cross Road was re-issued as a 3-disc box set under the name "Deluxe Sound & Vision", which included the original remastered album, a bonus CD containing B-sides, rarities and fan favourites, and the Live from London DVD. It has sold over 21.5 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.
It is Bon Jovi's best selling album in many countries, and continues to sell well. Its international success helped the album to peak at number one in 13 countries and made it Polygram Records' best-selling album of 1994. It spent six months in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 and became Bon Jovi's biggest selling single in the United States. The album's first single "Always" went top five in many countries. The diner located on the cover of the album is the Roadside Diner in Wall Township, NJ, near the crossroads of Route 33 and Route 34. "Runaway" was never recorded with the current band, though at that time there were plans to put a "Runaway '94" on the album but it was never recorded. The album also features two new tracks: the hit singles " Always" and " Someday I'll Be Saturday Night", as well as a new, updated rendition of "Livin' on a Prayer" entitled "Prayer '94" available only on the North American versions. The album contains hits from all previously released albums from their debut, Bon Jovi (1984) to Keep the Faith (1992). Cross Road is the first mainstream but second overall greatest hits album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on Octoby Mercury Records.