MUMBAI: Australian hard rock band has gone digital by putting their entire music catalogue for sale on the digital retailer, iTunes. Sixteen studio albums will be released, including “High Voltage” and “Back in Black,” which is already in the Top 30 on iTunes’ top albumschart.

Previously, frontman Brian Johnson and band co-founder Angus Young had strongly opposed to putting their music online, insisting it was "about making money" and not preserving the artistic intent of the album format.

Two years ago Apple struck a deal with The Beatles’ record label, EMI Group, and management company, and began selling the group’s music. Kid Rock, who had also been against selling his music through the digital retailer, is releasing a new album, “Rebel Soul,” on Monday and it’s available on iTunes.

Silvio Pietroluongo, Billboard’s director of charts, said AC/DC’s decision isn’t shocking. “It’s something that I think artists realize they need to do in order to get their music into the hands of their fans and to make more money,” he said

Four of AC/DC’s live albums and three compilation records are also available. The group’s first live album in 20 years, ‘Live at River Plate’, is out Tuesday.

According to the report, as well as fans being able to download AC/DC tracks for 2.19 dollars and albums for 16.99 dollars, there are boxed set collections so that listeners can stay faithful to the band's traditions and buy all the records together at once for 229.99 dollars, the report said.