AC/DC have achieved sweeping success with their new album Power Up (PWR/UP), topping the albums charts around the world and setting a unique record in their homeland Australia. The BMG publishing clients’ new album currently tops the charts in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Norway and Sweden.

In their homeland Australia, where Power Up is the iconic rock band’s sixth Number One album, they are now the only Australian group to have Number One albums in each of the past five decades.

In the US, it’s AC/DC’s first Number One album in more than a decade and the third time in the band’s history that they are topping the Billboard 200 charts, following Black Ice (2008) and For Those About to Rock (1981).

In the UK, Power Up achieved the biggest first-week tally of 2020 so far. It’s the band’s fourth Number One album and their first in a decade.

Angus Young thanked fans for their support. “A very big thank you to everyone who put in their time, effort and creativity to get PWR/UP to Number 1! Also a big shoutout to all our fans, old and new. You are, and always have been, our guiding inspiration.”

Said Heath Johns, BMG Managing Director Australia, "BMG is so proud to represent AC/DC’s publishing worldwide via our long-standing relationship with our friends at Alberts. In a year of unexpected twists and turns, there is something truly comforting about PWR/UP’s flawless execution of the rock n’ roll blueprint that AC/DC created. It is the industrial dose of high voltage rock that the world needs right now."

Power Up, a tribute to AC/DC guitarist and songwriter Malcolm Young, who passed away in 2017, marks the band’s 16th international album.