Back In Black  by AC/DC

Back In Black is released in the summer of 1980 and becomes the sixth studio album of the Australian rockers. AC/DC return with a new singer, Brian Johnson, and literally leave nothing standing in their wake. In reality, the following decades of the band's existence were judged by this album as everyone was waiting to see what their next move would be. The irony is that they had all made the decision to stop since they no longer had Scott with them. It was the mother of the unfairly lost one who insisted that the band continue even without her son (!)

Back In Black was dedicated to Bon Scott. Its producer was Robert John "Mutt" Lange. Its ten songs are compositions by Brian Johnson and the Young brothers. The album was recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas within seven weeks between April and May of 1980.

The album counts close to 50,000,000 (!) copies in worldwide sales and turned AC/DC into a supergroup. There isn't a list of the best heavy/hard rock albums that doesn't host it in some prominent position.