10 Best-Selling Rock Albums Of The 1980s
7. Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi (25,000,000)
Hey, it's Bon Jovi again!
Welcome back, lads.
The album before New Jersey and the one that transformed the band from long-haired layabouts to international rock stars was the legendary Slippery When Wet.
Instead of containing songs entirely about wet floor signs, the record is stuffed full of some of Bon Jovi's best ever tracks. You Give Love a Bad Name is here, as is Wanted Dead or Alive.
Also, a little ditty called Livin' on a Prayer. Heard of it?
Three times Platinum in the UK. Three times Platinum in the US. Over one billion views on YouTube. Countless renditions at karaoke sessions around the globe. Livin' on a Prayer is song royalty.
As for the album as a whole, that's got some big numbers attached to it as well.
It sold over 12 million copies just in the US and a reported 25 million in all territories. It was the best-selling American album of 1987, which wasn't even the year it came out!
Slippery When Wet is one of those albums that everyone has a copy of somewhere and with good reason. Simply put, it's a gem.