AC/DC’s Black Ice Sells Over 3/4 Million In The U.S. And Tops Charts In 29 Countries

I don’t know if this was AC/DC’s final 401k plan so to speak, but if it was, they can be assured that they will be retiring happy. Over 780,000 copies of Black Ice have been sold in The United States in it’s first week of release and over 5 million copies have been shipped worldwide. Ad that to the 5 million+ copies of their back catalog being sold and they have sold 10 million records this year alone. That’s just unheard of! How many other bands can say that they did that this year? None!

Quintuple platinum in one week of sales. Most bands these days are happy if they can move 10,000 units in a week and if they sell 100,000 in a year or two they feel pretty good about themselves. But most bands don’t have the history that AC/DC does, even if most of their albums do sound the same. Even the ever-so-popular Metallica have only move just over 500,000 copies of their latest release, Death Magnetic. With 780,000 sold in the U.S. alone, perhaps some of these other bands might consider taking the Wal Mart exclusive route. Some of the other countries that Black Ice also topped the charts in are UK, Germany, Canada, France, Argentina, Japan, Australia, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland.

Black Ice world tour dates through April after the fold…

Black Ice World Tour Dates

  October 28      Wilkes-Barre, PA         Wachovia Arena
  October 30      Chicago, IL              Allstate Arena
  November 1      Chicago, IL              Allstate Arena
  November 3      Indianapolis, IN         Conseco Fieldhouse
  November 5      Detroit, MI              Palace of Auburn Hills
  November 7      Toronto, ONT             Rogers Centre
  November 9      Boston, MA               TD Banknorth Garden
  November 12     New York, NY             Madison Square Garden
  November 13     New York, NY             Madison Square Garden
  November 15     Washington, D.C.         Verizon Center
  November 17     Philadelphia, PA         Wachovia Center
  November 19     East Rutherford, NJ      IZOD Center
  November 21     Columbus, OH             Schottenstein Center
  November 23     Minneapolis, MN          Xcel Energy Center
  November 25     Denver, CO               Pepsi Center
  November 28     Vancouver, BC            General Motors Place
  November 29     Seattle, WA              Key Arena
  November 30     Tacoma, WA               Tacoma Dome
  December 2      Oakland, CA              ORACLE Arena
  December 4      Oakland, CA              ORACLE Arena
  December 6      Los Angeles, CA          The Forum
  December 8      Los Angeles, CA          The Forum
  December 10     Phoenix, AZ              US Airways Center
  December 12     San Antonio, TX          AT&T Center
  December 14     Houston, TX              Toyota Center
  December 16     Atlanta, GA              Philips Arena
  December 18     Charlotte, NC            Time Warner Cable Arena
  December 20     Ft. Lauderdale, FL       Bank Atlantic Center
  December 21     Tampa, FL                St. Pete Times Forum
  January 5       Cleveland, OH            Quicken Loans Arena
  January 7       Pittsburgh, PA           Mellon Arena
  January 9       Toronto, ONT             Rogers Centre
  January 11      Cincinnati, OH           U.S. Bank Arena
  January 13      St. Louis, MO            Scottrade Center
  January 15      Omaha, NE                Qwest Center Omaha
  January 17      Fargo, ND                Fargodome
  January 19      Minneapolis, MN          Xcel Energy Center
  January 21      Kansas City, MO          Sprint Center
  January 23      Dallas, TX               American Airlines Center
  January 26      Tulsa, OK                BOK Center
  January 28      Little Rock, AR          ALLTEL Arena
  January 30      Memphis, TN              FedEx Forum
  January 31      Nashville, TN            Sommet Center
  February 18     Oslo, NO                 Telenor Arena
  February 20     Stockholm, SE            The Globe
  February 22     Stockholm, SE            The Globe
  February 25     Paris, FR                Bercy
  February 27     Paris, FR                Bercy
  March 1         Antwerp, BE              Sportpaleis
  March 3         Antwerp, BE              Sportpaleis
  March 5         Leipzig, DE              Halle 1
  March 7         Dusseldorf, DE           ISS Dome
  March 9         Oberhausen, DE           Kopi Arena
  March 11        Bremen , DE              AWD Dome
  March 13        Rotterdam, NL            Ahoy
  March 15        Dortmund, DE             Westfallenhalle
  March 17        Prague                   02 Arena
  March 19        Milan, IT                Datch Forum
  March 21        Milan, IT                Datch Forum
  March 23        Budapest, HU             Papp Laszlo Budapest Sportarena
  March 25        Frankfurt, DE            Festhalle
  March 27        Munich, DE               Olympiahalle
  March 29        Zurich, CH               Hallenstadion
  March 31        Barcelona, ES            Sant Jordi
  April 2         Madrid, ES               Palacio de los Deportes
  April 14        London, UK               02 Arena
  April 16        London, UK               02 Arena
  April 18        Dublin, IE               02 Arena
  April 21        Manchester, UK           MEN
  April 23        Birmingham, UK           NEC