Back In Black
by AC/DC
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Back In Black is ranked as the best album by AC/DC.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Back In Black rankings summary
Overall rank: 133rd | 1980s rank: 18th | 1980 rank: 3rd Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
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| 2026 | Foxforce5 | Top 25 Music Albums of 1980 | 8/25 | 4 |
| 2026 | emiro | Top 50 Music Albums of the 1980s | 6/50 | 18 |
| 2026 | pjpaul | Top 50 Greatest Music Albums | 25/50 | 48 |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 31/100 | 14 |
| 2026 |  Musicbuff123 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 76/100 | 25 |
| 2026 | Gendjar | Top 98 Greatest Music Albums | 18/98 | 80 |
| 2026 |  MetalMan67 | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1980s | 29/99 | 14 |
| 2026 | BraddlesHendo | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 89/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Top Rock | 7/100 | - |
| 2026 | munson | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 20/100 | 76 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 1,297 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 9,661 | |||
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| ! | 26 hours ago |  Purplepash | 5,026 | 75/100 |
| ! | 30 hours ago | FrancK | 575 | 83/100 |
| ! | 10/19/2026 19:14 | jr_uk_1234 | 172 | 82/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.7/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.6.
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From Purplepash 26 hours ago in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
Purplepash 26 hours ago in What album are you listening to? (cont.)“It's not just that I prefer Bon Scott as a vocalist, but I like the fun and variety of the early albums before they found what worked and stuck with it”
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-Hey, we need a chorus for "Highway to hell".
-Ok. What about "I'm on a highway to hell, highway to hell, highway to hell, highway to hell"?
-Cool. We also need a chorus for "You shook me all night long".
-I've got it. We could say, you know, "you shook me all night long, yeah, you shook me all night long, shook me all night long, shook me all night long".
-Wow, you're a genius. What about "Back in black"?
-Well, we can say "I'm back, yeah, I'm back, well, I'm back, yes, I'm back, back, back in black".
-Damn! That's deep.
Joking aside, if I'm hanging out with my friends and we're half drunk and someone plays Highway to hell, we will sing our lungs out, but it's not an album I would normally return to. I mean, I find Back in black kind of fun and catchy, but also insubstantial, repetitive and unambitious. I don't hate it, but it doesn't speak to me too much either, to be honest. (Edited)
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People. Are we forgetting what rock & roll is really all about? It's about the same 3 chords and some guy singing unintelligibly about sex and drugs. It's about the same chords and riffs all over again. And I'm sure that many of you who think Brian Johnson a terrible singer will coo over albums by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, or any number of bands with terrible singers. Back In Black is a great album: it's a band coming back from tragedy to make the best music of their careers. It's something that gets more rare every year: a great, straight up rock and roll record. (Edited)
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Is it original?
No.
Are the lyrics great?
No.
Is the vocal delivery good?
No.
Is the production good?
No.
Is it fun to listen to?
You better believe it. (Edited)
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I hate this album, it's pretentious and boring. The singer is terrible, you could take nails to a chalk board and get the same effect the singer has on me. I don't see why everyone things Angus Young is such a "rock god" when he just uses the same riffs and chords throughout the whole album.
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Its a good album but i hate the way its pretty much Australia's main album export to the world when there are far better Aussie albums than this one. (Edited)
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