AC/DC beating Kaiser Chiefs in chart battle

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'Black Ice' outselling 'Off With Their Heads' so far

Oct 22, 2008
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AC/DC are beating Kaiser Chiefs in the race for the Number One slot in the UK albums chart this week (beginning October 20).

The Australian rockers' new album, 'Black Ice', is predicted to sell around 100,000 copies by the end of the week, HMV's Genaro Castaldo told BBC 6music. It has sold around 25,000 copies more than Kaiser Chiefs' new album, 'Off With Their Heads'.

Castalo predicted that 'Black Ice' would outsell both 'Off With Their Heads' and Kings Of Leon's album 'Only By The Night' by a ratio of two to one.

'Black Ice' is AC/DC's first new album since 2000's 'Stiff Upper Lip'.

Angus Young and co. boycott Apple iTunes and other download services, only making their albums legally available in physical formats.

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Bryan Robson

Oct 22, 2008

kaiser chiefs are wank

ncconnor

Oct 22, 2008

I can't believe the Schize Chiefs are even in the running!?! People must be buying the album thinking that buying it is voting for the title to be enacted!

callaby

Oct 22, 2008

glad to hear it, kaiser chiefs are one of the most mindless, talentless, groove-less, soul-less, overrated pieces of shit i've ever heard.

bragdad

Oct 22, 2008

probably because AC/DC are ace

Moiststretch

Oct 23, 2008

Normally I would say that album sales mean nothing. In this case I would say that the great British public have finally seen sense. Kaiser Chiefs are wank and boring. Does anyone else find it ironic that they released a track called "EVERYTHING IS AVERAGE NOWADAYS"?