The new album “Black Ice” due out October 20th, will be the next hug success for AC/DC. This is something that the fans have been waiting for. With their concert tickets going for $100 a piece you know that the band is back! This Australian rock band that formed in 1973 consisting of brothers never expected this type of overwhelming success. AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album, High Voltage in 1975. Some of their successes include “Highway to Hell”, “Back in Black”,For those About To Rock, We Salute You” , “Razers Edge”, “BallBreaker”, “Stiff Upper Lip”, and now in 2008 “Black Ice”. There has been some tough times for the band along the way and has not been an easy road. February 1980, after a night of heavy alcohol consumption. The group briefly considered disbanding, but soon ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was selected as Scott’s replacement. Later that year, the band released their best selling album, Back in Black.
AC/DC have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide, including 69 million albums in the US. Back in Black has sold an estimated 42 million units worldwide and 22 million in the US alone, making it the fifth highest-selling album ever in the US. AC/DC ranked fourth on VH1 ’s list of the “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock” and the seventh “Greatest Heavy Metal Band Of All Time” by MTV . In 2004, the band was ranked number 72 in the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
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Just in time for their new album Black Ice to top the charts in over two dozen countries, AC/DC grace the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone. Hard to believe that 34 years later after releasing “Back In Black”, they would once again grace the cover of Rolling Stone and top charts all over the world. Their 1980 album, Back in Black, has sold 22 million copies in the U.S. alone. Over the past two years, AC/DC are second only to the Beatles in U.S. catalog sales, and they’ve sold a combined 23 million albums and DVDs worldwide since 2003, when the band moved from its longtime label, Atlantic, to Sony Music. And AC/DC’s new Columbia album, Black Ice, their first studio release in eight years, is poised to be the bestselling rock album of 2008.
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