AC/DC — Highway to Hell

The title track of AC/DC's final album with Bon Scott is broadly charting again, tracked across 75 country and platform charts after a few weeks out of view. Recorded with Robert John "Mutt" Lange as producer, it was released in July 1979, months before Scott's death — a coincidence that turned its imagery into one of rock's grimmer pieces of foreshadowing. The Angus Young riff has kept the song commercially durable across decades; the RIAA certified it Diamond in 2024, per the band's discography. Its sync history runs deep, anchored by the all-AC/DC soundtrack to Iron Man 2 (2010) and a recurring presence in Final Destination 2 and Family Guy. A road anthem that has never really left rotation.