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Saturday, July 25, 2015

AC/DC - Back In Black (35th anniversary)

Today (July 25th) marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Back In Black, the classic sixth studio album from AC/DC. The record spent an amazing one hundred and thirty-seven weeks on the US Billboard Album chart, with a top spot of number 4.

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

AC/DC - Flick of the Switch

Today (August 15th) marks the thirtieth anniversary of Flick of the Switch, the eighth world-wide released studio album from hard rock band AC/DC. A Platinum seller in the band's native Australia and here in the US, it charted at number 28 in Switzerland, number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 200, number 12 in Canada, number 9 in Austria, number 8 in New Zealand and Sweden, number 5 in France, number 4 in Norway and the UK, and number 3 in Australia.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

AC/DC - Powerage

Welcome to another edition of Seventies Sunday.

This weekend (May 25th) marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Powerage, the fifth studio album from Australia’s hard rockers AC/DC. The 1978 release went to number 133 on the US Billboard Hot 200, number 26 in the UK, number 22 in Australia, number 19 in Sweden and number 10 in France.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

AC/DC - Back In Black

As the 80’s began, the Australian rockers AC/DC released their sixth world-wide studio album Back In Black. It went to number 1 in their native homeland and also in Canada, France and the UK. Here in the US it peaked at number 4 ; however it also sold the most copies here to date (over 22 million of the total 49 million copies world-wide).

Critically, the album is a favorite. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 26 on its list of 100 Greatest Albums of the 80’s and number 73 on its list of 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time.