Slippery When Wet is the third studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was released on August 18, 1986, by Mercury Records in North America and Vertigo Records internationally. It was produced by Bruce Fairbairn, with recording sessions between January and July 1986 at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver. The album features many of Bon Jovi's best-known songs, including "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer", and "Wanted Dead or Alive".
The album was an instant commercial success, spending eight weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and was named by Billboard as the top-selling album of 1987. Slippery When Wet is Bon Jovi's best-selling album to date, with an RIAA certification of 12× Platinum, making it one of the top 100 best-selling albums in the United States.
The album has been credited with helping to make Bon Jovi one of the biggest rock bands in the world. It also helped to popularize the hair metal genre in the late 1980s.
Track listing:
Let It Rock
You Give Love a Bad Name
Livin' on a Prayer
Social Disease
Wanted Dead or Alive
Raise Your Hands
Without Love
I'd Die for You
Never Say Goodbye
Wild in the Streets
Bonus tracks (remastered edition):
Edge of a Broken Heart
Blood on Blood
Save a Prayer
Wanted Dead or Alive (Live from Madison Square Garden 1987)
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