Every Bon Jovi Album Ranked, From Worst to Best
“It’s about time,” Jon Bon Jovi said as his band was inducted—finally—into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April.
He has a point. If the rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey, formed in 1983, were a person, it would be old enough to run for president. No other artifact from the hair-metal era has shown the same persistence. If you’re a Bon Jovi fan, such astonishing longevity is a gift that makes its disciples happy and its singer very rich. And if you hate Bon Jovi—well, you ought to give them some credit for pissing you off for this many years.
Bon Jovi’s bottomless appetite for crunchy riffs and lovestruck ballads has been documented on 13 studio albums. Frontman Jon Bon Jovi's gravelly voice and knack for soaring, arena-ready hooks, coupled with the band’s reliably bombastic pop-metal riffs, made Bon Jovi into an indelible hit machine. Sometimes derided as the poor man’s Springsteen because of their shared Jersey roots, Bon Jovi deserves respect (no, really!) for combining the Boss’s working-dude appeal with hard-rock sleaze and managing to evolve and endure after the '80s faded.
In honor of the band’s current tour, we ranked all the studio albums, not counting —technically a compilation—or the acoustic rehashes of . Let the haggling begin!
