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“You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC

From the album Back in Black (1980)

“You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC appears on 111 radio countdowns from 41 stations between 1980 and 2026. It was first released in 1980 on the album Back in Black. Its best result is #1 on the BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #52 alternative song of 1980 and #4,709 alternative song of all time.

111countdowns
41stations
#1best position
1#1 finishes
32top 10 finishes
1980–2026years charted

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"You Shook Me All Night Long" comes from Back in Black, AC/DC's 1980 album, and it was the band's first single with Brian Johnson singing lead, after Bon Scott died of alcohol poisoning in February of that year.

Johnson wrote it with Angus and Malcolm Young, and it's a grinning, strutting ode to a wild night, built on one of those riffs that sounds like it was always there. Angus and Malcolm lock their guitars together, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd keep the groove steady as a heartbeat, and Johnson howls over the top like a man who can't believe his luck. Robert John "Mutt" Lange produced it at Compass Point Studios with Tony Platt engineering, and the sound is lean and hard, every chord landing with a thump.

It reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100, came back on the Who Made Who soundtrack and was reissued in 1986, and it's now considered the band's signature song. In 2018, Triple M put it at 63 in its countdown of the most Australian songs of all time.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1980 52 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1980 106
1980 5 KISW Seattle-Tacoma, WA KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from 1980 25

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1982 338 95.5 KLOS KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) 499
1990 3 Z-Rock Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) 1000
1991 122 WNEW-FM WNEW Firecracker 500 (1991) 500
1992 147 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992) 500
1994 24 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1995 17 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) 1000
1996 21 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) 1000
1996 198 WNEW-FM WNEW Firecracker 500 (1996) 500
1997 4 104.5 KZEP KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997) 500
1997 154 102.3 WBAB WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) 1023
1997 101 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (1997) 499
1998 4 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) 1000
1999 4 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) 998
2001 2 KISW KISW Top 99 Rock Songs (2001) 99
2001 1880 WFPK WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time 2000
2002 2 K-Rock K-Rock Top 92 Party Songs of All-Time (2002) 92
2002 16 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2002 26 100.7 WZLX WZLX Memorial 500 (2002) 500
2004 6 Q101 Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) 300
2004 531 WXPN WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) 885
2005 85 WFPK WFPK Top 100 Party Songs 100
2007 371 WTMD WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time 897
2010 3 97.9 The Loop The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) 500
2010 461 WXPN WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) 885
2011 29 97.9 The Loop The Loop Rock N Roll 500 (2011) 500
2012 33 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) 885
2013 118 KBPI KBPI Top 200 Songs of All Time 200
2013 19 Big 100 BIG 500 Labor Day Countdown (2013) 500
2013 38 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2013) 500
2013 241 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR CT 500 (2013) 500
2013 7 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2013) 500
2014 97 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 400 (2014) 400
2014 22 Big 100 BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) 1000
2014 99 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 25 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2015 4 I-95 I-95 Memorial Day Weekend Top 500 (2015) 500
2015 107 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2015) 499
2015 9 101 The Fox 101 The Fox Labor Day 500 (2015) 25
2015 191 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015) 500
2016 32 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2016 23 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2016) 500
2016 12 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2016) 500
2016 2 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) 500
2016 6 103.5 The Fox The Fox Memorial Day 500 (2016) 299
2017 4 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017) 500
2017 13 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2017) 500
2017 5 97.9 The Loop 97.9 The Loop Top 540 Countdown (2017) 540
2017 3 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR AC/DCember 25 (2017) 25
2018 1 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018) 500
2018 16 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2018) 500
2018 746 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs 892
2018 63 Triple M Triple M Ozzest 100 (2018) 100
2019 12 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2019) 500
2019 50 102.5 KZOK KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 1025
2019 11 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2019) 500
2019 2 Big 100 BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2019) 500
2019 23 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2019) 500
2019 26 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2019) 499
2020 1927 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2020 19 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2020) 500
2020 82 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2020 17 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2020) 500
2020 16 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2020) 500
2020 16 Q105.7 Q105.7 Memorial Day 500 (2020) 499
2021 402 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s 909
2021 3 WCSX WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021) 499
2021 99 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) 1043
2021 6 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2021) 500
2021 2 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2021) 499
2021 32 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2021) 500
2021 31 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2021) 500
2021 22 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2021) 500
2022 8 94.1 KRNA KRNA Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2022 29 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2022) 500
2022 94 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2022) 1043
2022 3 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) 1025
2022 8 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2022) 500
2022 9 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2022) 500
2022 18 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) 500
2022 29 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2022) 500
2022 18 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2022) 500
2022 29 97.1 The River River 500 (2022) 500
2023 536 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s 850
2023 16 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2023 8 KSHE 95 KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 29 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2023) 500
2023 90 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) 1043
2023 13 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2023) 500
2023 2 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 566 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time 909
2023 23 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2023 17 97.1 The Drive 97.1 The Drive Memorial Day Weekend Rock N Roll 500 (2023) 500
2024 28 KQRS KQRS KQ 500 (2024) 499
2024 5 KSHE 95 KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2024) 500
2024 31 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2024) 500
2024 58 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) 1043
2024 21 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2024) 500
2024 3 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 500
2024 12 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2024) 498
2024 12 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 499
2025 23 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2025 62 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2025) 500
2025 67 Q104.3 Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) 1043
2025 17 102.5 WDVE DVE Memorial Day 500 (2025) 500
2025 2 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2025 16 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2025) 498
2026 32 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2026) 500
2026 8 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2026) 500
2026 113 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2026) 500

Also listed as: You Shook me All Night Long.

Charting alongside it in 1980

Best songs of 1980 →
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  2. 2Another One Bites the DustQueen
  3. 3Whip ItDevo
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  5. 5Once in a LifetimeTalking Heads
  6. 7Even It UpHeart

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