Burning Bridges is their last album to be released through Mercury, marking the end of their 32-year relationship with the label.

"[5] Burning Bridges was followed by This House Is Not for Sale, the band's fourteenth studio album released in 2016 which featured all new songs.

[6] On November 18, 2014, in an interview with Pierre Robert from WMMR, a leading rock station in Philadelphia, lead singer Jon Bon Jovi confirmed that he started writing songs for the upcoming Bon Jovi album and that album is going to be recorded in 2015 and released in 2016.

[9] The album's title track makes explicit reference to Bon Jovi's dissatisfaction with the label.

Sub-Springsteen working-class references, spiritually patriotic clichés and foursquare, bombastic riffs abound".

[13] Glenn Gamboa from Newsday rated the album with B− stating that "'Burning Bridges' does sound a bit, well, burned-out".

[18] The album features twin lead singles, "We Don't Run" and "Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning", both released on July 31, 2015.

Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning premiered on Hitradio Ö3 on July 17, 2015. at 9:45 a.m.[19] Originally written in The Circle sessions, it was finished for this album.