AC/DC Album Inducted Into Grammy Hall Of Fame

AC/DC's album Back In Black has been inducted into the 2013 Grammy Hall of Fame as part of the Recording Academy's 40 year celebration. Recordings are included in the Grammy Hall of Fame on the basis of musical, cultural and historical significance.

Back In Black was released in 1980 and was the band's first album with their current singer Brian Johnson, who joined the band after the untimely death of Bon Scott that same year. A smash hit that has sold over 50 million copies worldwide, it shares honours with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon for the highest-selling album by a band and has risen to the top of the heap to be the highest-selling album by an Australian musical act.

The full list of all 27 inductees is as follows, alphabetically listed according to the release name:

Buck Owens – 'Act Naturally' (Capitol, 1963)
Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five – 'Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens' (Decca, 1946)
Joe Falcon – 'Allons À Lafayette' (Columbia, 1928)
AC/DC – Back In Black (Albert/Atlantic, 1980)
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run (Apple, 1973
W.H. Stepp – 'Bonaparte's Retreat'  (Library of Congress, 1937)
Lennie Tristano Sextet – Crosscurrents (Capitol, 1949)
Carols Gardel – 'El Día Que Me Quieras' (Paramount, 1935)
Elton John – Elton John (Uni Records, 1970)
Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs And The Foggy Mountain Boys – Foggy Mountain Banjo (Columbia, 1961)
Little Richard – Here's Little Richard (Specialty, 1957)
Ray Charles – 'Hit The Road Jack' (ABC/Paramount, 1961)
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton – 'Hound Dog' (Peacock, 1953)
James Brown – 'I Got You (I Feel Good)' (King, 1965)
John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman – John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman (Impulse!, 1963)
Original Broadway Cast – Lost In The Stars (Decca, 1949)
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959)
Son House – 'My Black Mama [Parts 1 & 2]' (Paramount, 1930)
Francis Craig And His Orchestra – 'Near You' (Bullet, 1947)
The Drifters – 'On Broadway' (Atlantic, 1963)
Billy Joel – 'Piano Man' (Columbia, 1973)
Memphis Jug Band – 'Stealin' Stealin' (Victor, 1928)
Richard Pryor – 'That N-----'s Crazy' [Comedy Album] (Partee/Stax, 1974)
Frank Sinatra – 'Theme From “New York, New York”'(Reprise, 1980)
Bob Dylan – 'The Times They Are A-Changing' (Columbia, 1964)
Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman – 'The Titanic' (Okeh, 1924)
Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston (Arista, 1985)