They're back in... the music charts! Legendary rockers AC/DC found their 1990 hit "Thunderstruck" climbing back up the Billboard Global 200 chart in October 2025, 35 years after its original release.
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The iconic rock song reappeared at No. 179 on Saturday, Oct. 11, after being released as the first single off the band's 12th studio album, The Razors Edge, in September 1990. Now, it's spent a whopping 112 weeks on the chart, peaking at 111.
The band was founded in Sydney, Australia, in 1973 by Scottish brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, who released their first album, High Voltage, in 1975. They soon found global success with hits like "Highway to Hell," "Back in Black," and "You Shook Me All Night Long."
"Thunderstruck" was inspired by Angus' plane actually being struck by lightning mid-flight. "It started off from a little trick that I had on guitar," he recalled in the liner notes for the 2003 re-release of The Razors Edge. "I played it to Mal, and he said, 'Oh I've got a good rhythm idea that will sit well in the back.' We built the song up from that. We fiddled about with it for a few months before everything fell into place."
"Lyrically, it was really just a case of finding a good title, something along the lines of 'Powerage' or 'Highway To Hell,'" he said, so they used the scary flight situation as inspiration. "We came up with this thunder thing, and it seemed to have a good ring to it. AC/DC = Power. That's the basic idea."
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The song was famously used in the film Varsity Blues during the hungover football game sequence, and the producers paid handsomely to use more than two minutes of the hit song: $500,000, to be exact.
"I remember being absolutely horrified when I heard that number," Thomas Golubic, who brokered the deal between the band and the production company, recalled to Variety in 2014. "And we spent a lot of time coming up with what we thought were great alternates, but there was going to be no budget on that, and they had money, so they paid for it."
The official music video for the song, which was uploaded to YouTube in 2012, proves just how popular it is, with more than 1.6 billion views as of October 2025.
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