Powerage
by AC/DC
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AC/DC bestography
Powerage is ranked 3rd best out of 28 albums by AC/DC on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by AC/DC is Back In Black which is ranked number 132 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,753.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Powerage track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Powerage rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 58 Music Albums of 1978 | 25/58 | 3 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Favourite albums by Australian artists | 20/89 | - |
| 2026 |  djrodo | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 81/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 59 Music Albums of 1978 | 38/59 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 1970s Pt 2 | 56/100 | - |
| 2026 | svk4ever | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 19/100 | 16 |
| 2026 | vruslov | Top 77 Music Albums of 1978 | 8/77 | 5 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 62/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 500 Albums: 101-200 | 94/100 | - |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 94/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 255 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,570 | |||
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Powerage ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 46 hours ago | Siromynian | 1,708 | 76/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2026 22:27 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2026 12:20 | Trooper44 | 153 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.4.
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Powerage forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/08/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5398): By mrmcrook
dihansse 09/19/2025 19:29 in My discoveries per yearPowerage comments
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This is one album I just have to give a 10/10. It's in my top three of all time and is pure, unadulterated AC/DC in the middle of their prime. Lack of a hit single may turn off some people from caring for this album, but it grows on you until you realize just how damn perfect it is.
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/23/2012 18:21 | #47094 | TOP COMMENT
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Should I join the club and say underrated? This is not a high profile ACDC release - there's no seminal singles that everyone knows. But that doesn't mean much. This is the Bon Scott album. It swaggers and swings from top to bottom, with the prototypical Bon Scott edge. Maybe the lack of huge singles makes it easier to identify - you don't get lost in individual songs. A solid, if unspectacular, pre 1980 AC/DC album. (Edited)
fredbarnsky 03/13/2019 18:49 | #233453 | TOP COMMENT
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Raw, angry, primordial. Sometimes bluesy but in a powerful way. Absolutely AC/DC's peak of creativity. One of my favorites, probably my favorite from AC/DC. Underrated for some reasons I don't get.
Best Songs: Sin City; Riff Raff; Gone Shootin' (!!!)
Favorite Songs: Gone Shootin'; Down Payment Blues
Worst One: the first track, probably because it was written with the purpose to become a hit in order to impress the record company. It's a good song though.
Possibly AC/DC's greatest album. Highway to hell, and, back in black, quite rightly receive all the plaudits, but, powerage, is up there with them, in my opinion. Rock'n'roll damnation, riff raff, and especially, what's next to the moon, my favourite track, are all excellent. A good time rock'n'roll classic.
This is a blinder of an album with not a weak track in sight. This could well become my favourite Bon Scott AC/DC album putting it above Let There Be Rock, which I also hold in high regard.
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