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Bon Jovi lands another pan-European No. 1, as the band's new "Greatest Hits" compilation (Mercury/Universal Island) makes a winning start on Billboard's European Albums chart... "Greatest Hits" debuts in pole position in Portugal and Ireland, with No. 2 starts in the United Kingdom (on sales of 87,000), Germany and Austria, No. 3 in Holland in Switzerland and No. 5 in Norway.
The result? Bon Jovi's "Greatest Hits" generated first-week U.S. sales of 88,000 units in the week ended Nov. 14, exceeding the first -week sales of the band's 1994 hits collection, "Cross Road," which sold 84,000 units in its debut week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.