AC/DC's ANGUS YOUNG Talks To ITN MUSIC; Video Available

October 23, 2008

AC/DC guitarist Angus Young talked with UK's ITN Music about the band's new album, "Black Ice", and the fact that the legendary Australian rockers are going back on tour. "I suppose the one advatage we had over a lot of other bands was that we were the age that we were playing to," the 53-year-old Young said. "We were the age of the audience at the time. I think in hindsight that was kind of who we were aiming at and we still seem to pull in younger ones at that level."

Watch the two-minute report below.

AC/DC's new album, "Black Ice" — which arrived in the U.S. on Monday (October 20) exclusively at Wal-Mart stores, Walmart.com and ACDC.com — is expected to sell more 800,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release.

Wal-Mart has reportedly purchased 2.5 million copies of "Black Ice" on a no-return basis.

The band's last effort, 2000's "Stiff Upper Lip", sold 131,000 copies in its first week of release and has shifted more than 900,000 units to date.

AC/DC has sold 26.4 million albums since 1991, when SoundScan first began tracking record sales.

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