a b Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9. a b "What Makes This Song Great? Ep.111 BON JOVI "Livin' on a Prayer" ". YouTube . Retrieved March 4, 2022. In the UK, Slippery When Wet received a 3× Platinum certification by the BPI. The album also achieved Diamond status in Canada, and 6× Platinum status in Australia. Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List". LA Weekly. December 9, 2011 . Retrieved February 26, 2021. Singapore album certifications – Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet". Recording Industry Association Singapore . Retrieved November 24, 2021.

The album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making it Bon Jovi's first number-one album in the United States. The album spent 38 weeks inside the Top 5 of Billboard 200, including 8 weeks at No. 1. It is the best-selling album of 1987 in the United States, and eventually reached Diamond certification by the RIAA and current sales stand at 12 million copies, making it the 48th best-selling album in the United States. Me: And if you think “Love”’s contagious, “Wanted or Dead Alive” is a veritable dirty bomb of Bon Joviness. Those acoustic guitars! Those strings! And Bon’s a cowboy! On a steel horse! You know what I like best? The way every time he sings “wanted!” another voice sings “wanted!” right afterwards, like an echo I mean, can I just play it for you? Danish album certifications – Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet". IFPI Danmark . Retrieved August 18, 2021. British album certifications – Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved June 9, 2012.

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Who can sit still while listening to Livin' on a Prayer? Or You Give Love a Bad Name? If you can, than you care more about sales than song-writing. There might be Desmond Child's mostly hated song-writing influence, but it works on every level and I'm sold to that.

Dutch album certifications – Bon Jovi – Slippery" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers . Retrieved June 16, 2012. Enter Slippery in the "Artiest of titel" box. Select 1994 in the drop-down menu saying "Alle jaargangen". How Bon Jovi Changed the World With 'Slippery When Wet' ". Observer. August 18, 2016 . Retrieved December 11, 2016. Top 50 Glam Metal Albums". Metal Rules. December 2003. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017 . Retrieved November 26, 2017. The first big hit here, "You Give Love A Bad Name", makes you remember all the wrong things about the 80's. The same applies for the second big hit as well, "Livin' On A Prayer", which is the definition of AOR- Metal, big on hooks, choruses, syrup and flash. In the meantime, what "Social Disease" basically shows is how important the Scorpions were in the rise of the hair-metal scene.Offiziellecharts.de – Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 4, 2017.

NS: You know as well as I do there is no cure. When it comes to Bon Jovi, you’d be better off getting bitten by a rabid Lady Gaga. What we’ve been hoping to come up with is a vaccine. Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Bon Jovi; 'Slippery When Wet ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved June 9, 2012. That said, I never–and I know I sound just like those people on TV commercials talking about horrible contractable diseases–thought it could strike me. I was certain I possessed the necessary modicum of native intelligence and impeccable musical taste to serve as a prophylaxis against Bon Jovi. I was sure it only afflicted those who in some way “deserved it.”As for side two, with the exception of “Raise Your Hands” (very Van Halenesque) and “Wild in the Streets” (very sub-Spingsteenesque) it’s a disappointing cesspool of power ballads and Journey-Survivor school claptrap, and helps allay suspicions that Jon Bon Jovi is some kind of musical idiot savant. If side two were to saddle up a horse in El Paso, Texas and disappear into Mexico like Ambrose Bierce, nobody would ever report its disappearance to the police. Top 100 Metal Albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on August 12, 2004 . Retrieved March 23, 2022.