AC/DC Recent events (2000–present)
 AC/DC remasters series. Each release contained an expanded booklet, featuring rare photographs, memorabilia, and notes. In 2003, the entire back-catalogue (except Ballbreaker and Stiff Upper Lip) was remastered and re-released. Ballbreaker was eventually re-released in October 2005; Stiff Upper Lip was later rereleased in April 2007.
The street sign for ACDC Lane, Melbourne.In May 2003, Malcolm Young accepted a Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Service to Australian Music at the 2003 Music Winners Awards, during which he paid special tribute to Bon Scott. In the same year, the Recording Industry Association of America upgraded the group's U.S. sales figures from 46.5 million to 63 million, making AC/DC the fifth-best-selling band in U.S. music history, behind only The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the Eagles, although recently AC/DC was lowered to the tenth best selling artist. The RIAA also certified the Back in Black album as double diamond (twenty million) in U.S. sales, making it the sixth-best-selling U.S. album of all time; by 2005 the album had sold 21 million copies, which moved it into fifth place. On July 30 the band performed with The Rolling Stones and progressive rock band Rush at Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto. The concert, held before an audience of half a million, was intended to help the city overcome the effects of the 2003 SARS epidemic. The concert holds the record for the largest paid music event in North American history.
On October 1, 2004, a central Melbourne thoroughfare, Corporation Lane, was renamed in honour of the band. However, the City of Melbourne forbade the use of the slash character in street names, so the four letters were combined. The lane is near Swanston Street where, on the back of a truck, the band recorded their video for the 1975 hit It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll). Additionally, a street in Legan?s, Spain was named Calle de AC/DC on March 2, 2000. The band came second in a list of Australia's highest-earning entertainers for 2005, and sixth for 2006, despite having neither toured nor released an album since 2000. Verizon Wireless has gained the rights to release AC/DC's full albums and the entire Live at Donington concert to download in 2008.
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