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| # | Preview | Candidate | Win rate | Match win rate |
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| — |  | RunawayBon Jovi, 1984. The demo a radio station played before anyone had signed the band | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | She Don't Know MeBon Jovi, 1984. The one song on the debut Jon did not write, and he has never sounded thrilled about it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Burning for LoveBon Jovi, 1984. Pure 1984 bar-band engine, no talkbox, no arena in sight | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Only Lonely7800° Fahrenheit, 1985. The follow-up leaning hard on keyboards and a chorus that will not let go | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | In and Out of Love7800° Fahrenheit, 1985. A backstage song about the road, written before the road got that big | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Silent Night7800° Fahrenheit, 1985. The power ballad blueprint they would spend a decade refining | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | You Give Love a Bad NameSlippery When Wet, 1986. The gunshot snare and the shouted title, arena rock reduced to its parts | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Livin' on a PrayerSlippery When Wet, 1986. Talkbox, key change, two names everybody now knows | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Wanted Dead or AliveSlippery When Wet, 1986. Twelve-string cowboy mythology that outlived the outfits | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Never Say GoodbyeSlippery When Wet, 1986. The slow dance closer that keeps showing up in fans' answers first | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Bad MedicineNew Jersey, 1988. A chorus built to be shouted back by twenty thousand people | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Born to Be My BabyNew Jersey, 1988. Snow, black and white film, and a hook aimed straight at the back row | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | I'll Be There for YouNew Jersey, 1988. The apology ballad, six minutes of Sambora doing the heavy lifting | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Lay Your Hands on MeNew Jersey, 1988. Opens like a revival meeting and never really calms down | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Living in SinNew Jersey, 1988. The one about the priest and the parents, which is why it got edited | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Keep the FaithKeep the Faith, 1992. The haircuts came off and the groove got tighter | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Bed of RosesKeep the Faith, 1992. A hangover ballad that somehow ended up as a wedding staple | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | In These ArmsKeep the Faith, 1992. The most straightforwardly happy thing on a fairly heavy record | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | I'll Sleep When I'm DeadKeep the Faith, 1992. Horns, harmonica, and a title that reads like a dare | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Dry CountyKeep the Faith, 1992. Ten minutes, a guitar solo that takes its time, and no chorus for ages | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | AlwaysCross Road, 1994. Written for a film nobody remembers and then it swallowed the decade | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Someday I'll Be Saturday NightCross Road, 1994. Optimism with its teeth showing, which is a hard trick | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | This Ain't a Love SongThese Days, 1995. Denial as a chorus, sung by a man very obviously not over it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Something for the PainThese Days, 1995. Grinding and mean, the sound of a band bored of being liked | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Lie to MeThese Days, 1995. A slow build that hands the whole last minute to the guitar | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | These DaysThese Days, 1995. The bleakest thing they released, and the one Europe took to heart | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Hey GodThese Days, 1995. A street-level protest song stretched past six minutes | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | It's My LifeCrush, 2000. The talkbox came back and so did everyone else | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Say It Isn't SoCrush, 2000. Radio gloss over a riff that would have fit on New Jersey | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Thank You for Loving MeCrush, 2000. Piano, restraint, and no attempt at a big finish | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | One Wild NightCrush, 2000. Recut for a live album and somehow louder for it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | EverydayBounce, 2002. Post-2000 reset button, three minutes, no ballad in sight | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | MisunderstoodBounce, 2002. A pop song with a guilty conscience | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | All About Lovin' YouBounce, 2002. Unashamedly a wedding song and it knows exactly what it is | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | BounceBounce, 2002. The title track that most people skipped straight past | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Have a Nice DayHave a Nice Day, 2005. The smiley face with the smirk, sold on a single sneer | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Who Says You Can't Go HomeHave a Nice Day, 2005. Nashville arrangement, Jersey subject matter | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Welcome to Wherever You AreHave a Nice Day, 2005. The pep talk they had been circling for twenty years | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | (You Want to) Make a MemoryLost Highway, 2007. Quiet enough that the band almost disappears behind it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Till We Ain't Strangers AnymoreLost Highway, 2007. A duet with LeAnn Rimes that plays it completely straight | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Lost HighwayLost Highway, 2007. Country instrumentation on a rock band that never pretended otherwise | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Whole Lot of Leavin'Lost Highway, 2007. Slide guitar and a chorus that sits lower than you expect | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | We Weren't Born to FollowThe Circle, 2009. Written as an anthem and delivered as one, no hedging | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Superman TonightThe Circle, 2009. The closest the late catalog gets to a Slippery-era ballad | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | When We Were BeautifulThe Circle, 2009. A band looking back at itself, which is riskier than it sounds | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Because We CanWhat About Now, 2013. Stadium mechanics assembled in plain view | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | What About NowWhat About Now, 2013. The uplift single, aimed squarely at the encore slot | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | We Don't RunBurning Bridges, 2015. Defiance recorded after the guitarist left, which colours every line | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | This House Is Not for SaleThis House Is Not for Sale, 2016. A title with a lawsuit-shaped shadow behind it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Labor of LoveThis House Is Not for Sale, 2016. Slow, adult, and not remotely interested in the arena | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Born Again TomorrowThis House Is Not for Sale, 2016. The most obviously fun thing on a very serious record | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Limitless2020, 2020. A rock song sequenced onto an album that mostly is not one | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Do What You Can2020, 2020. Written in lockdown and it sounds exactly like that | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Unbroken2020, 2020. Written for veterans and sung without the usual big finish | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | American Reckoning2020, 2020. A protest song delivered almost entirely straight, no chorus lift | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | LegendaryForever, 2024. The comeback single, doing what comeback singles do | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Living ProofForever, 2024. A voice that has been through surgery, used deliberately | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | WavesForever, 2024. Closes the record on something closer to a hymn | — win | — match wins |