New Jersey Songwriting Credits by Bon Jovi

New Jersey was the follow-up to Bon Jovi's breakthrough Slippery When Wet, again produced by Bruce Fairbairn in Vancouver, with Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora writing most of the material alongside Desmond Child. The band originally pitched it as a double album, but Mercury rejected the higher price point and trimmed it to a single LP. It became the only hard rock album to send five singles into the Billboard Hot 100 top ten, led by the number one hits "Bad Medicine" and the ballad "I'll Be There for You." The record topped the Billboard 200 for four weeks and was later issued in the Soviet Union by Melodiya, making it the first American album officially released there.