AC/DC's 'Black Ice' at No. 1 again

AC/DC topped the 1-million sales mark for its new "Black Ice" during the album's second week of release, holding on to the No. 1 spot on the national sales chart with 271,000 copies. It sold 784,000 the previous week.

It finished well ahead of the week’s No. 2 album, Pink’s new “Funhouse,” which sold 180,000 copies in its first week. John Legend’s third collection, “Evolver,” debuted at No. 4 with sales of 133,000.

Toby Keith’s “That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy” started off at No. 5 with 91,000 copies, just ahead of Rascal Flatts’ “Greatest Hits Volume 1” compilation, arriving at No. 6 with sales of 89,000 copies, according to Billboard.

The season of the hits is hitting full stride, with Celine Dion’s “My Love: Essential Collection” entering the chart at No. 8 with first-week sales of 87,000 copies.

Scottish-Irish rock group Snow Patrol got its highest chart debut with its latest studio set, “A Hundred Million Suns,” starting out at No. 9 with sales of 48,000 copies. Billboard notes that a little over half of those sales were digital downloads and that Amazon.com had priced its downloads as low as $3.99.

--Randy Lewis

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Comments

[Shawn]

Well I gotta say. AC/DC strikes again. Normally when reading reviews you hear comparisons to a group's epic album, "They've gone back to their roots" , things of that nature, but with AC/DC, you can't. It really is true that if you heard one album you've heard them all. The new album sounds like it uses a drum machine for the tracks. Just when you think it's gonna be a different tempo, poof, it's the same beat again. And lead guitar? Does this guy know anything other than basic scales? This band should never be considered a great rock band. On the other hand I suppose people who like them are comfortable with an unchanging, monatonous sound that really is this band's trademark.

[Andre]

Honestly Shawn, if you think AC/DC should never be considered a great rock band then you should not listen to rock music in general. I could spend about 3 pages explaining why AC/DC is so amazing, but I will only say that people who claim AC/DC is repetitive know absolutely nothing about them.
Great rock bands have their own "sound". They are the bands where you can identify all of their songs even if you know only a few of their songs. Pink Floyd had it, Zeppelin had it, and AC/DC had it. If AC/DC "mixed it up" then they would be like Metallica, a once great band that lost itself in a new direction.
Seriously man, if you don't like AC/DC then don't bother listening to them, and seeing that you know absolutely nothing about them, don't bother posting your opinion here.

Rock n' Roll Dream, Thunderstruck, Back in Black, For Those About to Rock, Hells Bells, TNT - NONE of these songs sound alike, yet have the AC/DC sound. Proof that AC/DC knows how to be creative while sticking to their meat and potatoes rock n' roll roots.

[Gabriel]

Shawn:

AC/DC Black Ice #1 going on the third week. Enough said! You're not rocker, you're a popper! Now go listen to The Jonas Sisters, and Britney Spears!