The Circle is the eleventh studio album by American hard rock band Bon Jovi and was released on November 10, 2009 through Island and Mercury Records. It topped the album charts in Canada, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and the United States. It went to number 2 in Austria and the United Kingdom, number 3 in Spain, number 4 in Australia and the Netherlands, number 5 in Portugal, number 6 in Finland, number 7 in Ireland and number 9 in Sweden and also peaked at number 20 in New Zealand.