The 48-year-old Bon Jovi frontman explained that he agreed to the deal so that he could go and make a country record.
He told the Daily Star, 'I went to Nashville to make what I told my record label was a country record and there was a long silence on the phone and the CEO said, 'When you've come back from losing millions of my dollars, could you allow us to please release a Greatest Hits?'
'And I said, 'That's a deal.' I knew, Tony Soprano-style, there was going to be a knock on my door, to do this Hits record.
'We're fulfilling a commitment and that's how I justify its release.'