AC/DC, that little rock 'n' band from Australia, are kings of the world right now. In its first week, their new album, Black Ice, shot straight to number one on 29 countries' sales charts around the world.
From Belgium to New Zealand, the album is a monster. Interestingly, Argentina prevented Black Ice from dominating a 30th chart (the album is number two there). In the US, Wal-Mart will sell an estimated 780,000 copies of Black Ice as it cruises easily to the top of tomorrow's charts.
In all, nearly five million copies of Black Ice have shipped worldwide. And when you take in to account the roughly five million albums from their back catalog AC/DC has sold this year - hard physical copies, mind you, no downloads - and it's safe to say it doesn't suck to be in that band.
Tonight AC/DC will kick off their world tour at the Wachovia Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with a 13-song set that is weighted heavily in favor of tried-and-true classics.
The AC/DC set list
Rock N' Roll Train
Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be
Back In Black
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Thunderstruck
Hell's Bells
You Shook Me All Night Long
TNT
Black Ice
Whole Lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Encore:
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock
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“It didn’t even represent what we were doing. Even the guitar solo has no business being in that song”: Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit
“It sounded so amazing that people said to me, ‘I can hear the bass’, which usually they don’t say to me very often”: U2 bassist Adam Clayton contrasts the live audio mix in the Las Vegas Sphere to “these sports buildings that sound terrible”
“It didn’t even represent what we were doing. Even the guitar solo has no business being in that song”: Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit
