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ABBA discography
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Swedish pop group ABBA has released nine studio albums, two live albums, thirteen compilation albums, four box sets, five video albums, 53 singles, and 41 music videos. They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time,[1] and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music. ABBA have sold an estimated 150 million to 400 million records worldwide.[2][3][4][5] They have scored nine number-one singles and 10 number-one albums in the UK, becoming the most successful Swedish act of all time on the Official Charts,[6] and were ranked third best-selling singles artists in the United Kingdom with a total of 11.3 million singles sold as of November 2012.[7] In May 2023, ABBA were awarded the BRIT Billion Award, which celebrates those who have surpassed the milestone of one billion UK streams in their career.[8]
ABBA's biggest hit singles worldwide are "Dancing Queen" and "Fernando", with Arrival being their biggest hit studio album.[9]
The compilation album ABBA Gold is the second best-selling album of all time in the UK[6] and has sold over 32 million copies worldwide.[10][11]
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Singles
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Videography
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“Film clips” showing groups performing their songs had been used to great effect by major artists like The Beatles since the mid-Sixties as a convenience for those who were reluctant or unable to tour or make appearances abroad. In the summer of 1974, when there was a demand for the group's presence in the United States, they hired the director Lasse Hallström to direct the group's first film clips, for "Waterloo" and "Ring Ring". Hallström had been making pop film clips for television since the late Sixties, and had recently directed a sequence of successful short comedy skits for Swedish television. The videos were successful, and the following year the group rehired him to make four promo clips of the songs they felt had the strongest hit potential on the new album ("I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", "Mamma Mia", "SOS" and "Bang-A-Boomerang"). Hallström would go on to make most of their in-house promotional clips, often on a very small budget (the four 1975 films were completed in two days, at a total cost of less than 50,000 kronor (£5,500), and Hallström did the editing work himself from his apartment). The relationship ended in 1982, prompted by changing tastes and demands and complaints from ABBA's distributors that Hallström's low-budget approach made it difficult to market the band. Director Kjell Sundvall and cinematographer Kjell-Åke Andersson, an up-and-coming filmmaker team, were hired to replace them for the final two promotional videos, "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack".[198]
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See also
- Agnetha Fältskog discography
- Anni-Frid Lyngstad discography
- Benny Andersson discography
- Björn Ulvaeus § Discography
- Mamma Mia! (musical)
- Mamma Mia! (film)
- Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack
- List of songs recorded by ABBA
- List of unreleased songs recorded by ABBA
- List of best-selling music artists
- List of best-selling albums
- List of best-selling singles by country
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Notes for albums and songs
- United States combined sales figures for ABBA Gold as of May 2018. The album has sold 5,800,000 in the US according to Nielsen SoundScan,[70] with an additional 884,000 sold at BMG Music Clubs.[71] Nielsen SoundScan does not count albums sold through clubs like the BMG Music Service, which were significantly popular in the 1990s.[72]
- The LaserDisc version was released in 1990 without the bonus material.
Notes for peak chart positions
- "People Need Love" did not enter the Dutch Single Top 100, but peaked at number 47 on the Radio Noordzee Top 50 chart.[134]
- "People Need Love" did not enter the US Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 114 on the US Top 100 Looking Ahead Chart[136] and 117 on the US Singles Chart.[137]
- "He Is Your Brother" did not enter the Swedish combined singles and album chart Kvällstoppen, but peaked at number one on the Tio i Topp Singles Chart.[138]
- "SOS" did not enter the Swedish Singellista Chart upon original release, but peaked at number 12 on the Swedish Heatseeker Chart in 2021.[150]
- "One of Us" did not enter the US Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number seven on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.[171]
- "No Doubt About It" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 72 on the UK Singles Sales Chart[178] and number 69 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.[179]
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