Austria Top 40 Jahrescharts 2018: Longplay". Ö3 Austria Top 40. Archived from the original on 2018-06-21 . Retrieved 30 December 2018. The compilation became a much bigger success than what was expected, becoming the best-selling ABBA disc ever made and is now the 23rd best selling album, with sales of over 30 million copies. The album sold particularly well in the United Kingdom and remains the longest charting album in the territory, becoming the first and only album to have spent 1000 weeks on the UK Albums Chart in July, 2021. Copsey, Rob (11 December 2019). "The UK's Official Top 100 biggest albums of the decade". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 12 December 2019. Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts – 2014" (in German). Offizielle Deutsche Charts . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (ABBA; 'Gold - Greatest Hits ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 16 June 2020.

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Goofy cover bands like Australian outfit Björn Again built on this enthusiasm for ABBA’s music and became genuine sensations at clubs around the world, dialing up the kitsch with even more outlandish attire and between-song banter delivered in Swedish accents. And if the commercial potential of ABBA’s music wasn’t already evident, it became impossible to ignore in mid-1992 when Erasure’s cover EP Abba-esque topped the charts across the UK and continental Europe. Year End Charts – European Top 100 Albums". Billboard. 2008. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012 . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on 12 December 2003 . Retrieved 26 March 2022.Asked what the best thing about being in Abba is, Andersson replied, with refreshing candour: “Not having to worry about the money. You are free to do anything, to keep on writing the music.” album- és válogatáslemez-lista – chart-pozíció alapján – 2008" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Long before the musical and movies, however, their song catalogue was already one of the most successful – and brilliant – in all pop music. Having formed in 1972, at the height of their fame in the mid-1970s six out of seven singles in a row reached No 1 in the UK: Fernando, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Knowing Me Knowing You, Name of the Game and Take a Chance on Me. They had three further No 1s and a total of 19 Top 10 hits.

With pure sales of 5.61 million copies, [2] Gold: Greatest Hits is the second-highest selling album of all time in the United Kingdom, [3] after Queen's Greatest Hits. [4] In August, 2019, Gold: Greatest Hits became the longest-running top 100 album of all time, spending 900 weeks on the UK Albums Chart. The album spent 61 (non-consecutive) weeks in the top 10 and topped the British chart 5 times, most recently for two weeks in 2008 following release of the motion picture Mamma Mia!. [5] As of July 2021, "Gold" became the first album to reach 1000 weeks on the Official Charts in United Kingdom with pure sales of 5.61 million copies sold in United Kingdom. [2] In November 2021, it was awarded 20× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting six millions album-equivalent unit in the UK. [6] Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Conciseed.). United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. p.31. ISBN 978-1-84609-856-7. Speaking at a London launch event for Voyage, Ulvaeus said the band was as close as they ever were. “It is incredible to be where we are, no imagination could dream up that. To release a new album after 40 years and to still be the best of friends … to still have a total loyalty. Who has experienced that? Nobody … It is such fun and we have been longing for this for such a long time.” Skeptics pointed to the watch-like precision of every new ABBA hit as evidence of the band’s soullessness. In a 1993 essay in TIME after Gold’s American release, critic Richard Lacayo wrote that the band “was always easy to enjoy, if you could just put aside the unnerving sense that they were hastening the decline of pop music into commercial calculation and mindless buoyancy.” But the level of quality represented on Gold sprung from more than just studio scheming or bald ambition. By the time ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision contest with “Waterloo,” Andersson and Ulvaeus had each enjoyed a decade of domestic success as musicians, and Faltskog and Lyngstad were working solo artists in their own right. They had collectively played thousands of tour dates across Sweden, produced music for dozens of other artists, and spent untold hours working as a songwriting and performing team. Their mastery and enthusiasm for their craft was indisputable.

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ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Albums 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018. It’s going to be a busy year for ABBA fans with a singles vinyl box coming up later in the spring and the autumn promising a Live At Wembley release.Shortly after the release of Gold: Greatest Hits, a Spanish version of the album, titled Oro: Grandes Exitos was issued, followed later by Mas Oro: Mas Grandes Exitos. This mix of influences helped create the band’s reputation as purveyors of unrefined schmaltz. The songs on Gold that have aged most poorly are the cuts that bear the greatest schlager influences, songs like “Chiquitita” and “Fernando” and “I Have a Dream.” Even gorgeous hooks wilt up against inelegant English lyrics, martial Germanic pomp, and faux-Italian balladry. ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Albums 1992". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts – 1993" (in German). Offizielle Deutsche Charts . Retrieved 12 December 2018. a b "American video certifications – ABBA – Gold". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 1 May 2020.