“You Shook Me All Night Long” Giving Digital Charts A Slight Nudge

noah | August 1, 2007 3:59 am
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To follow up on this morning’s earlier post about AC/DC’s entry into the digital-music world: I was just perusing the Hot Digital Tracks chart released today, and as it turns out, “You Shook Me All Night Long”–the only song that’s individually available from the band’s catalog, and the only one available as an over-the-air download–sold 13,000 digital singles, which placed it at No. 78 on this week’s chart.

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s 10 spots below Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” (15,000 tracks sold, 773,000 to date), and 34 slots ahead of Buckcherry’s “Crazy Bitch,” which sold 8,200 tracks this week, 50% of which were no doubt immediately put on CD-Rs used at strip clubs. (If you have sales figures for AC/DC’s albums, drop a line; now I’m even more curious to see how many people are willing to jump through all those hoops just to have a digital copy of “Back In Black.”)

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