Greatest Hits Album Coming This Fall...

Bon Jovi Planning Greatest Hits Album This Fall; Tour Predicted to Gross Over $210 Million

Bon Jovi are currently on the road promoting their album The Circle, and just kicked off a 12-night residency in London on Monday night. Even so, the band is already planning their next release. Guitarist Richie Sambora tells Billboard that Bon Jovi will release a greatest hits album this fall with new material on it. He says, "There's now four new songs on the greatest hits. We haven't released [one] since 1995, so that will give us product through to the summer of 2011."

The Circle tour will wrap up at the end of 2011, and the concert promoter believes when all is said and done, it will easily out-gross the band's last tour, which raked in a whopping 210.9 million bucks. The promoter told Billboard, "I can't see anyone coming close to this tour. U2 would have been our only challenger, but unfortunately, Bono's hurt his back. We hope he recovers quickly, but Bon Jovi, I think, will be head and shoulders above anyone else."

Bon Jovi kicked off their London residency at the O2 arena Monday night by performing on the roof of the venue. The band tore through four songs -- "We Weren't Born to Follow," "Superman Tonight," "It's My Life" and "You Give Love a Band Name" -- before being lowered to the stage to finish the show. The descent took 30 minutes had had to be helped along by mountaineering experts, according to Billboard.

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