Back in Black - Legacy

Legacy

The album is featured on many "best of" lists. In 1989, it was ranked number 26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Best Albums of the Eighties. The song "Back In Black" was ranked number 190 on the same magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2001, VH1 ranked Back In Black number 82 on its list of the Top 100 Albums. VH1 also placed the title track at number two on its list of the 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. In 2003, the album was ranked number 73 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at number nine in its list of the 40 Best Albums of the '80s. It was listed at number two in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums, in October 2010, and included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, in 2005.

Back In Black is also praised for its sound quality. In the years after its release, studios in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. (nicknamed "Music City") would use it to check the acoustics of a room, while Motorhead would use it to tune their sound system.