Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet 13x "Multi-Platinum" Label Award

Bon Jovi RIAA 13x "multi-platinum" album label/artist management award for their Slippery When Wet album, which was released on August 18, 1986. This award is presented to a music industry figure from Bon Jovi co-founder/guitarist Richie Sambora. This, the New Jersey crew's third studio album, was a smash success with its songs always on the radio in the 80s (and today). Spawning the twin #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits "Livin' On A Prayer" and "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Wanted Dead or Alive" also went into the top 10. The album topped the Billboard Top 200 Album chart for eight weeks and became the best-selling album of 1987 in the U.S. It is thought that this album may have been created to celebrate worldwide sales of the album. The album was certified 12x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA by 1995 for 12 million copies sold in the U.S. alone and with having gone multi-platinum in numerous other world markets, sales are in fact estimated to be almost 20 million worldwide. See image above for the