New Jersey
Artist Bon Jovi
Genre Rock
Style Blues Rock
Style Hard Rock
Style Pop Rock
Style Heavy Metal

New Jersey is the fourth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on September 19, 1988, by Mercury Records. The album was produced by Bruce Fairbairn and recorded at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The album was the follow-up to the band’s third album, Slippery When Wet, and reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart in its second week of release after debuting at number eight. It remained at the top for four consecutive weeks and was Bon Jovi’s last album to do so until Lost Highway (2007).It produced five Billboard Hot 100 top ten hits, the most top ten hits to date for any glam metal album, including “Bad Medicine” and “I’ll Be There for You”, which both reached number one. The album was certified 7× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album also debuted at number one in the UK and was the band’s first UK No. 1 album. New Jersey was released by the Soviet state-owned record label Melodiya, being the first American album to be officially released in the USSR. To celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary in 2014, the album was repackaged with bonus tracks.

Tracklisting

  1. Lay Your Hands On Me
  2. Bad Medicine
  3. Born To Be My Baby
  4. Living In Sin
  5. Blood On Blood
  6. Homebound Train
  7. Wild Is The Wind
  8. Ride Cowboy Ride
  9. Stick To Your Guns
  10. I’ll Be There For You
  11. 99 In The Shade
  12. Love For Sale

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Wikipedia URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_(album)
Format Vinyl 2× LP Album Reissue (180g)
Label Mercury
Catalog Number B0021969-01
Notes Gatefold sleeve.
Discogs URL Bon Jovi - New Jersey