{"id":19774,"date":"2025-07-24T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19774\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:35:09","slug":"study-finds-bon-jovis-livin-on-a-prayer-is-the-uks-ultimate-karaoke-song-100-7-fm-kslx-classic-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19774\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds Bon Jovi\u2019s \u2018Livin\u2019 on a Prayer\u2019 is the UK\u2019s ultimate karaoke song \u2013 100.7 FM \u2013 KSLX \u2013 Classic Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/M_JonBonJoviABC_0705242028129.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"M jonbonjoviabc 0705242028129\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Disney\/Chris Willard<\/p>\n<p>Everybody who loves karaoke has a go-to song, and apparently in the U.K. one Bon Jovi tune hails above all others.<\/p>\n<p>A new study, commissioned by the telecommunications company Vodafone Three, finds that the New Jersey rockers\u2019 #1 hit \u201cLivin\u2019 on a\u00a0Prayer\u201d is the U.K.\u2019s\u00a0ultimate karaoke tune and the karaoke\u00a0song most likely to boost\u00a0Brits\u2019 moods.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford University mathematician\u00a0Dr. Tom Crawford created a formula to determine the ultimate karaoke tune, researching data from 2,000 karaoke fans. The results were determined by looking at things like number of verses, beats per minute and repetition of chorus, then ranking songs based on a score from 1 to 100.<\/p>\n<p>Bon Jovi\u2019s track topped all others with a score of 91%, followed closely by Whitney Houston\u2019s \u201cI Wanna Dance With Somebody\u201d with a 90% score.<\/p>\n<p>The list also included songs by Oasis, Adele,\u00a0ABBA, Shania Twain and the Spice Girls.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1986, \u201cLivin\u2019\u00a0on a Prayer\u201d was co-written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child, and was the second single from the band\u2019s third studio album,\u00a0Slippery When Wet. It was their second #1, following the album\u2019s first single, \u201cYou Give Love\u00a0a Bad Name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney\/Chris Willard Everybody who loves karaoke has a go-to song, and apparently in the U.K. one Bon Jovi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,12740,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-19774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-syndicated","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}