Back in Black
It's from 1980, before you were born.
- Artist
- AC/DC
- Genre
- Hard rock
- Released
- 1980
- Note
- among the best-selling albums ever
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As of 2026, it's 46 years old.
Back in Black is one of the best-selling albums in history, and it's effectively a tribute record disguised as the loudest party of 1980 — AC/DC made it just months after frontman Bon Scott's death, hired a new singer, dressed the whole thing in black, and turned grief into the most triumphant comeback in rock. The tolling bell that opens 'Hells Bells' says it all.
'You Shook Me All Night Long' and the title track became eternal stadium and sports-arena staples, and the album never seems to stop selling.
Thunderous, defiant, and improbably joyous, Back in Black is the album that answered tragedy with the biggest riffs the band ever recorded.
