![]() ![]() To compare, when the Beatles catalog arrived, it sold a combined 119,000 digital albums and 1.42 million songs. It soundtracked spots for the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” as well as Black Friday ads for Walmart. Even though there weren’t TV commercials touting the iTunes debut (as there was for the Beatles), one could hear the song “Back in Black” in at least two different TV commercials over the busy Thanksgiving shopping weekend. Unlike the Beatles‘ arrival on iTunes in 2010 - which was heralded with great fanfare and a TV marketing campaign - AC/DC’s entrance to iTunes seemingly dropped out of the sky without hype. There were 14 AC/DC songs that sold at least 10,000 last week. The band’s second biggest seller last week was “Back in Black” (68,000), followed by “You Shook Me All Night Long” (64,000), “Highway To Hell” (50,000) and “TNT” (40,000). On the latter tally - viewable on - the entire top 12 positions are owned by AC/DC tunes. ![]() In terms of song downloads, “Thunderstruck” led the way for AC/DC last week, selling 85,000. “Rock ‘N’ Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution” (From “Back in Black”) ![]() 1 on Top Album Sales Chart With 'The World EP.2: Outlaw' ![]()
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