New Jersey (album)

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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. The album was named after the band's home state of New Jersey. It produced five Billboard Hot 100 top ten hits, the most top ten hits to date for any hard rock album, including "Bad Medicine" and "I'll Be There for You", which both reached number one. In 1996, eight years after release, the album was certified 7× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album debuted at number one in the UK, a first for the band. New Jersey was released by the Soviet state-owned record label Melodiya...

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