"Black Ice" sold 780,000 copies between Oct. 20 and Saturday at Walmart, Sam's Club and www.acdc.com making the U.S. one of 29 countries in which the album will hold the No. 1 slot. It is the band's first No. 1 debut.
The global release on Oct. 20 has resulted in "Black Ice" topping charts in the U.K., Germany, Canada, France, Japan, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and elsewhere. The album sold nearly 200,000 copies in its first day.
More than 5 million copies of "Black Ice" have been shipped worldwide.
Columbia Records has also partnered with Walmart and MTV to create AC/DC Rock Band Stores in New York’s Times Square and in Los Angeles to sell the album, AC/DC apparel, the Rock Band video game, and Rock Band branded apparel and accessories.
Catalog sales have been rising in recent months.  In the past eight weeks AC/DC albums besides "Black Ice" have sold  800,000 units worldwide, according to the label.
The first leg of the Black Ice World Tour kicked off Monday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and runs through April 23 in Birmingham, U.K.
At a "final dress rehearsal" on Sunday at the Wachovia Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,the band performed
"Rock N' Roll Train"
"Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be"
"Back In Black"
"Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
"Thunderstruck"
"Hell's Bells"
"You Shook Me All Night Long"
"TNT"
"Black Ice"
"Whole Lotta Rosie"
"Let There Be Rock"
"Highway To Hell"
"For Those About To Rock"

Partially following the lead  of the Eagles and Journey, AC/DC will release its next album through a single retail outlet, Wal-Mart, on Oct. 20.
"Black Ice" will be sold at  Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores and online at  the ac/dc site, and Walmart.com  and Samsclub.com. The band's first album of all-new material in eight years, it will feature 15 tracks and will sell for  $11.88.
Unlike Wal-Mart's two other high-profile exclusive offerings from veteran rock bands, AC/DC is not self-releasing. This is a Columbia Records release, Columbia being the sister label of Epic, which released all of AC/DC's recordings between 1976 and 1990. Columbia also released the DVD set "Plug Me In."
Limiting a release to a single retailer seemed fool-hardy a couple of years ago unless that retailer was willing to purchase CDs as "one-ways," i.e, nothing can be returned to the distributor.
Since Billboard changed its policies regarding reporting the sales of exclusives, the  key repercussion of the move - not being counted in the top 200 - has been eliminated. The change occurred after the Eagles' "Long Road Out of Eden" sold more than 700,000 copies in its first week late last year; all sales of current albums now qualify on the official top 200 that Nielsen SoundScan tallies.
The only high-profile debut schedule for that week at this time is "High School Musical 3: Senior Year Premiere Edition," which makes it highly likely AC/DC will register its first No. 1 since 1981 when "For Those of You About to Rock We Salute You" topped the chart.
The track listing is after the jump.

On a monthly basis, the RIAA likes to tout the number of singles, albums and ringtones that have hit gold and platinum status. Songs like “Buy U A Drank,” which has shipped – a term that gets mighty vague in the digital age – 2 million copies.
But beyond the awards given to Justin Timberlake, Rascal Flatts and T-Pain, there are those mastertones from the catalogs being rewarded with plaques on the wall. June’s oldies that kept phones and cash registers rigning were:
Platinum: "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye and “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” by Cyndi  Lauper.
The Gold winners are: AC/DC's  “Thunderstruck,” “Highway To Hell,” “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Hell's Bells”;Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”; Henry Mancini’s “Pink Panther Theme”; Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” and the instrumental version – sorry Dave Bickler - of Survivor’s “Eye Of The Tiger.”