Hit Parade: The AC/DC Rule, Part 1
Quick, what was the only No. 1 album by Jimi Hendrix? How about the first No. 1 by Billy Joel? Jackson Browne? Pat Benatar? Pearl Jam? Lady Gaga?\n\xa0\nIn all cases, the answer isn\u2019t obvious\u2014it\u2019s not the album you know best, the one with the most hits on it. It\u2019s the album after that classic that goes to No. 1. And there\u2019s no better example than AC/DC, the Australian-by-way-of-Scotland hard rock band that\u2019s sold more than 20 million copies of Back in Black. But it was their next album (can you name it?) that topped the Billboard album chart.\n\xa0\nChris Molanphy has coined a term for this weird chart phenomenon: He calls it The AC/DC Rule. Just as less-good movie sequels open better at the box office than classic first installments, follow-up albums often chart higher than their slow-growing but hit-packed predecessors. Some of the rock and pop legends who fell prey to this chart phenomenon might surprise you\u2026might just leave you shook all night long.\n\xa0\nPodcast production by Asha Saluja.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices