Industry experts reckon that 10 million copies of Black Ice will be sold before 2008's done.
Likely to rival it in the global unit-shifting stakes is Chinese Democracy, Guns N' Roses long overdue new album, which is out here on November 21.
The much-leaked opus features 'Chinese Democracy', 'Shackler's Revenge', 'Better', 'Street Of Dreams', 'If The World', 'There Was A Time', 'Catcher N' The Rye', 'Scraped', 'Riad N' The Bedouins', 'Sorry', 'I.R.S.', ' 'Madagascar', 'This I Love' and 'Prostitute'. You can get a (legal) preview of the title-track here.
With the Gunners planning a 2009 World Tour, don't be surprised if we get an open air eyeful of Axl next year.