AC/DC FINALLY caved in to iTunes earlier this month . . . after being one of the service's most notorious holdouts.  And that decision seems to be working out for them, at least for now.

Billboard.com says AC/DC sold 48,000 digital albums in their first week of availability . . . plus, 696,000 individual songs.  25 AC/DC albums hit iTunes on Monday, November 19th, including their new one "Live at River Plate".

"Back in Black", from 1980, was the top-selling album, with more than 15,000 downloads in just that first week.  The second biggest-seller was 1979's "Highway to Hell", which had a little under 5,000 downloads.

"Live at River Plate" was third with around 4,000 in sales.

The most downloaded song was "Thunderstruck", with 85,000 downloads . . . followed by "Back in Black" with 68,000 and "You Shook Me All Night Long" with 64,000.  14 AC/DC songs sold at least 10,000 downloads last week.

iTunes also had two expensive AC/DC collections available:  All 16 of the studio albums for $100, and the studio albums with the live ones for $150.  It's unclear how many people shelled out for those.

(AC/DC was holding out from iTunes because they did NOT want to sell individual tracks.  And even though a lot of people did download single songs, they have to be pleased that they sold over 48,000 digital albums.)