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ABBA won the contest and "Waterloo" became not only a massive hit in Europe but all over the world (peaking at No.6 in the US for example). [4] In Sweden, the album had already been released and topped the Swedish album charts for 12 weeks, becoming one of the biggest-selling Swedish albums ever to that point.
ABBA is the eponymous third studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally released on 21 April 1975 through Polar Music and featured the hits " SOS ", " I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do " and "Mamma Mia ".
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many singles were released from Agnetha Fältskog's Swedish solo albums. Three of them eventually showed up on the official Swedish singles chart (as indicated in the column "charts peak" in the table below).
Greatest Hits was released alongside Greatest Flix, a 60-minute compilation released on VHS video, LaserDisc, and CED Videodisc of all the videos Queen had made up until that point in chronological order, and Greatest Pix, a 96-page paperback book edited by Jacques Lowe which featured photos of the band taken by Neal Preston. [3]
Many preliminary versions of "Chiquitita" exist. It had working titles of "Kålsupare", "3 Wise Guys", "Chiquitita Angelina" and "In the Arms of Rosalita". [3] A revised version, which had a sound that was influenced by the Peruvian song "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" performed by Simon and Garfunkel, was recorded in December 1978 and released as a single in January 1979.
Agnetha & Frida: The Voice of ABBA is a compilation album of songs by singers Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, released in 1994. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The compilation features a total of 14 tracks, seven from each singer.
ABBA informally split up in 1983, following the release of their retrospective greatest hits album The Singles: The First Ten Years in late 1982. Renewed interest in the band grew from the 1990s onwards following the worldwide success of their greatest hits album ABBA Gold, the ABBA-based musical Mamma Mia! and the subsequent film of the same name, followed by its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia!
Most of the songs come from albums released during 1979–1990, from Degüello through Recycler.Exceptions include remixes of "Tush" and "La Grange", and the non-album tracks "Viva Las Vegas" and "Gun Love".