USA

Records sold: 66 million
Gold awards: 24
Platin awards: 55
Diamond awards: 2
RIAA award details

• AC/DC was one of the first bands that received the new RIAA Diamond Award in March 1999 for selling more than 10 Million copies of BACK IN BLACK
• In 2004 BACK IN BLACK received the second Diamond Award
• FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK (WE SALUTE YOU) was the first Hard Rock/Metal album that topped the Billboard charts
• In 2003 AC/DC was introducted into the ROCK´N´ROLL Hall of Fame

1x Gold = 500.000 times sold
1x Platin = 1.000.000 times sold
1x Diamond = 10.000.000 times sold

Germany

Records sold: about 5,3 Millionen
Gold awards: 25
Platin awards: 14
German award details

1x Gold = 100.000 times sold
1x Platin = 200.000 times sold

General

• AC/DC sold more than 150 million records world wide which makes them the best seller in the category Hard Rock, more than Aerosmith, The Who and even more than the Rolling Stones. In the USA alone they sold more than 65 million records
• In the top 20 of all music categories, with such bands as The Beatles, Elvis Preasly and Micheal Jackson, is AC/DC #11
• AC/DC was 3 times the headline act for the Donnington MONSTERS OF ROCK festival in England, they played there in 1981, 1984 and 1991 with support groups such as Whitesnake, Blackfoot, Slade in ´81, Van Halen, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osburne in ´84 an in ´91 with bands like Metallica, Queensriyche and The Black Crowes. Each time in front of about 90.000 spectators
• In 1992 AC/DC Headlined a similar festival in Moscow in front of 500.000 spectators with bands like Metallica, The Black Crowes and Pantera

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