Editing Highway to Hell (section)

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| title = Retrospective professional reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/highway-to-hell-mw0000649805|title=Highway to Hell – Allmusic|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=29 November 2009|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|archive-date=22 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722052054/http://www.allmusic.com/album/r82|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/52637/highway-to-hell.html |title=Highway to Hell |work=Blender |access-date=29 November 2009 |last=Twist |first=Carlo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090513045353/http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/52637/highway-to-hell.html |archive-date=13 May 2009 }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/ac-dc-highway-to-hell-album-review | title = AC/DC: Highway To Hell album review | access-date = 2019-10-03 | last = Rock | first = Classic | date = 26 July 2019 | publisher = [[Loudersound]] | archive-date = 27 July 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190727223709/https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/ac-dc-highway-to-hell-album-review | url-status = live }}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|chapter=AC/DC|year=2011|title=[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|isbn=978-0857125958|edition=5th}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Great Rock Discography]]''
| rev5score = 8/10<ref>{{cite book|last=Strong|first=Martin C.|author-link=Martin C. Strong|year=2004|chapter=AC/DC|title=The Great Rock Discography|publisher=[[Canongate Books|Canongate U.S.]]|edition=7th|isbn=1841956155}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev6score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Gary|editor-last=Graff|editor-link=Gary Graff|title=[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]|location=Detroit|year=1996|isbn=0787610372|chapter=AC/DC}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/highway-to-hell-20030225|title=Highway to Hell|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|first=Greg|last=Kot|date=25 February 2003|access-date=20 June 2012|archive-date=14 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614024801/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/highway-to-hell-20030225|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="RSAG">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/ac-dc/albumguide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308001205/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/ac-dc/albumguide|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 March 2012|title=Highway to Hell|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|first=Greg|last=Kot|date=25 February 2003|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Smash Hits]]''
| rev9score = 3/10<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Starr|first=Red|url=https://archive.org/details/smash-hits-1979-08-23/page/n19/mode/2up|title=AC/DC: Highway to Hell album review|magazine=[[Smash Hits]]|location=[[Peterborough]]|publisher=[[Ascential|EMAP National Publications, Ltd.]]|volume=1|issue=19|date=August 23 – September 5, 1979|page=25|issn=0260-3004}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev10score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|year=1995|title=[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|location=New York|isbn=0-679-75574-8|chapter=AC/DC}}</ref>
}}
The album became AC/DC's first LP to break the top 100 of the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart, eventually reaching number 17, and it propelled the band into the top ranks of hard rock acts.  It is the second-highest selling AC/DC album (behind ''[[Back in Black]]'') and is generally considered one of the greatest hard rock albums ever made. On 8 July 2024, the album was certified 8× Platinum by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]].<ref name="RIAA"/>

Of the album, [[Greg Kot]] of ''Rolling Stone'' wrote: "The songs are more compact, the choruses fattened by rugby-team harmonies. The prize moment: Scott closes the hip-grinding 'Shot Down in Flames' with a cackle worthy of the [[Wicked Witch of the West]]."<ref name="RS"/> In a 2008 ''Rolling Stone'' cover story, [[David Fricke]] noted: "Superproducer 'Mutt' Lange sculpted AC/DC's rough-granite rock into chart-smart boogie on this album." [[AllMusic]] called the song "Highway to Hell" "one of hard rock's all-time anthems."<ref name="AM"/> The album was ranked number 199 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's 2003 list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time]];<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/highway-to-hell-ac-dc-19691231 |title=199 Highway to Hell |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=9 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902081102/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/highway-to-hell-ac-dc-19691231 |archive-date=2 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> it was number 200 on the 2012 revised list.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/?list_page=7#list-item-200| year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date=18 September 2019| archive-date=31 March 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331171907/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/?list_page=7#list-item-200| url-status=live}}</ref> The 2010 book ''[[The 100 Best Australian Albums]]'' included ''Highway to Hell'' in the top&nbsp;50 (''Back in Black'' was No.&nbsp;2).<ref name="ODonnell">{{Cite book | title = [[100 Best Australian Albums]] | last1 = O'Donnell | first1 = John | author-link1 = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | author-link2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | author-link3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = [[Prahran, Victoria|Prahran, Vic]] | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 }}</ref>

In 2013, AC/DC fans Steevi Diamond and [[Jon Morter]] (who was behind a [[Rage Against the Machine]] Facebook campaign in 2009) spearheaded a Facebook campaign to make "Highway to Hell" a Christmas number one single on the [[UK Singles Chart]], to celebrate the 40th anniversary of AC/DC, and to prevent ''[[The X Factor (British TV series)|The X Factor]]'' from achieving another number one hit single.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/why-acdc-should-be-the-2013-christmas-number-1-by-the-highway-to-hell-campaign-2667/|title=Why AC/DC should be the 2013 Christmas Number 1|website=Officialcharts.com|access-date=18 April 2021|archive-date=12 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112070555/http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/why-acdc-should-be-the-2013-christmas-number-1-by-the-highway-to-hell-campaign-2667/|url-status=live}}</ref> The campaign raised funds for Feel Yourself, a [[testicular cancer]]-awareness charity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.justgiving.com/acdcxmas|title=Read Jon's story|last=JustGiving|access-date=17 December 2013|archive-date=21 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221140727/http://www.justgiving.com/acdcxmas|url-status=live}}</ref> The song peaked at number four on the Official Singles Chart for Christmas that year, making it AC/DC's first-ever UK Top 10 single.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/x-factors-sam-bailey-crowned-2013-official-christmas-number-1-2693/|title=X Factor's Sam Bailey crowned 2013 Official Christmas Number 1|last=Lane|first=Dan|date=22 December 2013|publisher=Official Charts Company|access-date=23 December 2013|archive-date=22 December 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131222213546/http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/x-factors-sam-bailey-crowned-2013-official-christmas-number-1-2693/|url-status=live}}</ref>