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News : AC/DC sets new live music crowd record in Sydney

By on February 24, 2010

AC/DC set a new audience record at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium, reports Kathy McCabe in the “Daily Telegraph”. At noon on Monday (Feb 22) the band had sold 212,729 tickets for their three concerts at the stadium compared with 211,747 for U2’s Vertigo tour in 2006. The gross for the Sydney shows is expected to be over $25 million, with another $4 million in merchandising.

In related news, AC/DC’s Black Ice leaped up twelve places on the ARIA Charts to #11. Their first collection of older tracks “Backtracks” is up twenty-two places to #36, their first live album “Live” is up forty-three places to #46, and their first No.1 album from 1980 “Back in Black” also climbs twenty-two places to #57, and lastly they re-enter at #97 with “The Razors Edge”, their 1990 No.3 album.

Source: TheMusic.com.au

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