AC/DC Tops British Albums Chart, Soundly Flogs Kaiser Chiefs
Hooray for Australia! Monday gave us word we’d bred the greatest karaoke singer of all time, and Tuesday I wake up to discover AC/DC have taken out the number one spot on the British albums chart, outselling their nearest competitors – a little band known as the Kaiser Chiefs – by, like, eighty to one (ish). And God saw that it was good.
Australian rock group AC/DC has hit the top of the British album charts for the first time in 28 years. The band’s 16th studio album Black Ice was outselling its nearest competitor, Kaiser Chief’s Off With Their Heads, by two to one at one point last week, The Guardian newspaper reported today.
The sales were despite the ageing rockers refusing to release the album as a digital download, preferring vinyl and CD.
BAM! In your face, youthful modern bands!
Oh, and also? I’m pretty sure this next bit means that AC/DC are to blame for the fact the world’s economy is going to hell in a hand basket.
The newspaper drew parallels between the current financial crisis and the last time AC/DC made it to No.1 in Britain. Back In Black, the album marking the band’s commercial breakthrough, was released in 1980 with Britain on the brink of recession. At the time, inflation had hit 20 per cent and unemployment edged towards two million.
So we have to choose between good AC/DC records being released, and economic security? Talk about a Catch-22!
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