Tracklist front / back album covers
1. "Lay Your Hands on Me" 5:58
2. "Bad Medicine" 5:16
3. "Born to Be My Baby" 4:40
4. "Living in Sin" 4:39
5. "Blood on Blood" 6:16
6. "Homebound Train" 5:10
7. "Wild Is the Wind" 5:08
8. "Ride Cowboy Ride" 1:25
9. "Stick to Your Guns" 4:45
10. "I'll Be There for You" 5:46
11. "99 in the Shade" 4:29
12. "Love for Sale" 3:58
Bon Jovi Band Members / Musicians
Jon Bon Jovi – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Richie Sambora – lead guitar, background vocals, co-lead vocals on "I'll Be There for You"
Alec John Such – bass guitar, background vocals
Tico Torres – drums, percussion, background vocals on "Born to Be My Baby", "Love for Sale"
David Bryan – keyboards, background vocals
Scott Fairbairn – cello
Audrey Nordwell – cello
Bruce Fairbairn – additional percussion, horn
Bruce Fairbairn – production
John Allen – engineering
Peter Berring – arrangement, additional vocals, vocal arrangement
Chris Cavallaro – engineering
Bob Rock – engineering, mixing
George Marino – mastering
Isabella Lento, Carmela Lento – photography, unknown association
Hugh Syme – artwork, design
Chris Taylor – engineering assistance
Jim Williams – engineering assistance
Tim White – photography
Cameron Wong – cover photography
New Jersey is the 4th 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.
