Editing Slippery When Wet (section)

==Reception==
{{Album reviews
| title = Retrospective professional ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|last=Leahey|first=Andrew|title=Slippery When Wet – Bon Jovi {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/slippery-when-wet-mw0000652380|access-date=June 29, 2021|publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev2score = B−<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s]]|publisher=[[Pantheon Books]]|year=1990|isbn=0-679-73015-X|chapter=B|access-date=August 17, 2020|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=B&bk=80|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Record Mirror]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="RMreview">{{cite magazine|last=Gardner|first=Mike|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/86/Record-Mirror-1986-09-20.pdf|title=Review: Bon Jovi — ''Slippery When Wet'' // FM — ''Indiscreet''|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|date=September 20, 1986|access-date=November 3, 2022|page=11|location=London|publisher=Spotlight Publications Ltd.|via=World Radio History|issn=0144-5804|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006165046/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/86/Record-Mirror-1986-09-20.pdf|archive-date=October 6, 2021}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Rolling Stone Album Guide |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bon-jovi/albumguide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628221528/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bon-jovi/albumguide|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref>
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The album was a massive commercial success. Between 1986 and 1987, ''Slippery When Wet'' produced a string of hit songs, including three Top 10 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 hits, two of which ("[[You Give Love a Bad Name]]" and "[[Livin' on a Prayer]]") reached No. 1. The third single "[[Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi song)|Wanted Dead or Alive]]" peaked at No. 7. 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 [[RIAA certifications|Diamond]] certification by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] and current sales stand at 15 million copies, making it one of the best-selling albums in the United States. In the UK, ''Slippery When Wet'' received a 3× Platinum certification by the [[British Phonographic Industry|BPI]]. The album also achieved Diamond status in Canada, and 6× Platinum status in Australia.

''Slippery When Wet'' was met with generally positive reviews. Writing in ''[[The Village Voice]]'' in September 1987, [[Robert Christgau]] said, "Sure seven million teenagers can be wrong, but their assent is not without a certain documentary satisfaction. Yes, it proves that youth rebellion is toothless enough to simulate and market. But who the hell thought youth was dangerous in the current vacuum? Would you have preferred the band market patriotism? And are you really immune to 'Livin' on a Prayer'?"<ref>{{cite news |last=Christgau |first=Robert |date=September 1, 1987 |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide |work=[[The Village Voice]] |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv9-87.php |access-date=August 17, 2020 |via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref> In 1990 in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', Jimmy Guterman thoroughly berated the band and the album. "Jon Bon Jovi and his band serve up condescending sentiment, reducing every emotional statement to a barefaced cliché – either because they think that's all their audience can comprehend or because that's all they can comprehend. On ''Slippery When Wet'', Bon Jovi sounds like bad fourth-generation metal, a smudgy [[Xerox]] of [[Quiet Riot]]."<ref name="RS">{{Cite magazine |last=Guterman |first=Jimmy |date=November 7, 1990 |title=Slippery When Wet |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/slippery-when-wet-252457/ |access-date=February 14, 2020}}</ref> The album is ranked 44th in the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]'s list of the [[List of 200 Definitive Albums in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame|Definitive 200 Albums]] of all time.