ABBA (/ b / AB-, Swedish: , formerly named Bjrn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Bjrn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fltskog, Bjrn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged as a palindrome.One of the most popular and successful . For other inquiries, Contact Us. The band's mainstream popularity in the United States would remain on a comparatively smaller scale, and "Dancing Queen" became the only Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for ABBA (though it immediately became, and remains to this day, a major gay anthem[52]) with "Knowing Me, Knowing You" later peaking at number seven; "Money, Money, Money", however, had barely charted there or in Canada (where "Knowing Me, Knowing You" had reached number five). The song's lyrics, as with "The Winner Takes It All" and "One of Us", dealt with the painful experience of separating from a long-term partner, though it looked at the trauma more optimistically. In 2004, she appeared with former bandmates Benny and Bjrn at London's fifth-anniversary performance of Mamma Mia! ABBA: The Album topped the album charts in the UK, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, while ascending to the Top 5 in Australia, Germany, Austria, Finland and Rhodesia, and making the Top 10 in Canada and Japan. During the band's heyday, the highest album chart position they had ever achieved in America was number 14. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the . "Abbacadabra" premiered on 8 December 1983 at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London, to mixed reviews and full houses for eight weeks, closing on 21 January 1984. Built around the songwriting skills and fiery guitar riffing of Mick Jones and the arena-filling vocals of Lou Gramm, Foreigner's hooky style of AOR caught on in a big way in the late '70s. The video was made using puppet models of the members of the band. [41] The earliest known example of "ABBA" written on paper is on a recording session sheet from the Metronome Studio in Stockholm dated 16 October 1973. Between 1967 and 1975, Fltskog released five studio albums. In Adelaide, the group performed one concert at Football Park in front of 20,000 people, with another 10,000 listening outside. In the United States, the song peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, paving the way for their first album and their first trip as a group there. The group performed eleven concerts to full houses, including six shows at Tokyo's Budokan. Playing six nights a week, it will feature digital versions of Abba's band members, accompanied by a 10 . 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[100], In June 2019, Ulvaeus announced that the first new song and video containing the ABBAtars would be released in November 2019. [125] In October 2021, the third single "Just a Notion" was released, and it was announced that ABBA would split for good after the release of Voyage. Instead of original members Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid embarking on a world tour, they will instead send digital avatars of themselves to perform to millions of fans around the globe.. Throughout the 70s and into the early 80s, the band. ABBA is Sweden's biggest ever pop group and one of the most popular bands in history. The three songs were also successful in nearby New Zealand with the first two topping that chart and the third reaching number two. Gimme! Although not physically in the Arena, they have created the kind of concert they always wanted - blurring the lines between the real and the digital to give you the best version of themselves. The album topped the charts across Europe and in Japan and Mexico, hit the Top 10 in Canada and Australia and the Top 20 in the US. The couple had two children - Hans and Ann Lise-Lotte. ABBA was composed of 4 members which were actually two couples and their music was lush and full of energy and emotion, you can almost hear the sparkle of the production. [21] The Hep Stars were known as "the Swedish Beatles". ABBA not only dominated the airwaves but they even made it to Broadwayand eventually the silver screen with a successful movie franchise. The name of the band ABBA was formed from all band members names, Agnetha Fltskog, Bjrn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. "I Am the City" was eventually released on the compilation album More ABBA Gold in 1993, while "Just Like That" has been recycled in new songs with other artists produced by Andersson and Ulvaeus. Anni-Frid reportedly inherited von Plauen's fortune and is thought to have 75 million. In Australia, the airing of the music videos for "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" and "Mamma Mia" on the nationally broadcast TV pop show Countdown (which premiered in November 1974) saw the band rapidly gain enormous popularity, and Countdown become a key promoter of the group via their distinctive music videos. The ambigram first appeared on the French compilation album, Golden Double Album, released in May 1976 by Disques Vogue, and would henceforth be used for all official releases. ABBA este o formaie suedez de muzic pop activ din 1972 pn n 1982, reunindu-se n 2016. ABBA made videos because their songs were hits in many different countries and personal appearances were not always possible. In June 1966, Bjrn Ulvaeus (born 1945) met Benny Andersson (born 1946) for the first time. They certainly do not need the money, so Swedish pop group Abba 's comeback may actually be all about the music. With her he has Linda. Vocals were then added, and orchestra overdubs were usually left until last.[133]. On 13 September 1979, ABBA began ABBA: The Tour at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Canada, with a full house of 14,000. In 1974, ABBA were Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo," which in 2005 was chosen as the best song in the competition's history as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the contest. grossing some $2billion since its debut. On the very same day, her grandmother died, aged 71. Andersson produced her single "Peter Pan" in September 1969her first collaboration with Benny & Bjrn, as they had written the song. The album went to number one in the UK and Belgium, Top 5 in the Netherlands and Germany and Top 20 in many other countries. The four members were guests at the 50th birthday of Grel Hanser in 1999. Bjorn lives in Sweden with Lena, his wife of 35 years, and is believed to be worth at least 90million. The ABBA story began in Sweden, more than five decades ago. Another track from the album, "Lay All Your Love on Me", released in 1981 as a Twelve-inch single only in selected territories, managed to top the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and peaked at number-seven on the UK singles chart becoming, at the time, the highest ever charting 12-inch release in UK chart history. [95][96][97] In September 2018, Ulvaeus stated that the two new songs, as well as the TV special, now called ABBA: Thank You for the Music, An All-Star Tribute, would not be released until 2019. It has sold 6 million copies there. Agnetha now admits she found the closing years miserable. They also make income from royalties and tv shows, and films. While Andersson and Ulvaeus were working on the musical, a further co-operation among the three of them came with the musical Abbacadabra that was produced in France for television. ABBA were soon recognised and embraced by other acts: Evan Dando of the Lemonheads recorded a cover version of "Knowing Me, Knowing You";[75] Sinad O'Connor and Boyzone's Stephen Gately have recorded "Chiquitita"; Tanita Tikaram, Blancmange and Steven Wilson paid tribute to "The Day Before You Came". One of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time,[2] they became one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982, and in 2022. She had a second number-one single with "Man Vill Ju Leva Lite Dessemellan" in late 1972. The song peaked at number 17 in the Swedish combined single and album charts, enough to convince them they were on to something. [120][121] Fltskog stated that the Voyage album and tour are likely to be their last. The four members of ABBA Benny Andersson, Anni . The video has surpassed 13 million views on YouTube as of November 2020. The group's sixth studio album, Voulez-Vous, was released in April 1979, with its title track recorded at the famous Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, with the assistance of recording engineer Tom Dowd amongst others. Following their success at the Eurovision Song Contest, ABBA spent an evening of glory partying in the appropriately named first-floor Napoleon suite of The Grand Brighton Hotel. Hans, now 58, followed his mother into the music business, and is now a songwriter and producer. Live performances continued in the middle of 1975 when ABBA embarked on a fourteen open-air date tour of Sweden and Finland. The Abba members are now all in their seventies. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. It was during 1971 that the four artists began working together more, adding vocals to the others' recordings. November the same year saw the release of ABBA's seventh album Super Trouper, which reflected a certain change in ABBA's style with more prominent use of synthesizers and increasingly personal lyrics. She also formed her own band, the Anni-Frid Four. The song came in third place, encouraging Stig Anderson, and became a hit in Sweden. After this, the duo penned the global hit Mamma Mia! at the Van Duzer", "New Abba Exhibition Launched as Abba Sells More Music than Ever", "The Official Top 20 biggest selling groups of all time revealed! Winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest on 6 April 1974 (and singing "Waterloo" in English instead of their native tongue) gave ABBA the chance to tour Europe and perform on major television shows; thus the band saw the "Waterloo" single chart in many European countries. One member of the group, Agnetha Faltskog, is a singer, songwriter, and actress that actually began her singing career back in 1968. 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"Take a Chance on Me" was a number one hit in Austria, Belgium and Mexico, made the Top 3 in the US, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, while only reaching numbers 12 and 14 in Australia and New Zealand, respectively. Other well-known stars such as Rik Mayall, Cher and Iron Maiden's Eddie also made appearances in the video. ABBA, Swedish Europop band that was among the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music. At the same time, a compilation named The Very Best of ABBA was released in Germany, becoming a number-one album there whereas the Greatest Hits compilation which followed a few months later ascended to number two in Germany, despite all similarities with The Very Best album. "[108], On 26 August 2021, a new website was launched, with the title ABBA Voyage. [136] In their early years, group member Anni-Frid Lyngstad designed and even hand sewed the outfits. "Voulez-Vous" was a Top 10 hit in the Netherlands and Switzerland, a Top 20 hit in Germany and Finland, but only peaked in the 80s in Australia, Canada and the US. She married Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss von Plauen in 1992, but he died of lymphoma in 1999 aged just 49 a year after she tragically lost her daughter Lise-Lotte in a car crash. For other uses, see, Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus in promotional photos for different musical groups, First live performance and the start of "Festfolket", First hit as Bjrn, Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid, Fashion, style, videos, advertising campaigns, Comments about this period start around time 1:10, Abba Fan Club Magazine, Helga van de Kar, "1976 Year in Review," December 2016, p. 12, Oldham, A, Calder, T & Irvin, C: "ABBA: The Name of the Game", page 201. The trip was accompanied by mass hysteria and unprecedented media attention ("Swedish ABBA stirs box-office in Down Under tourand the media coverage of the quartet rivals that set to cover the upcoming Royal tour of Australia", wrote Variety), and is captured on film in ABBA: The Movie, directed by Lasse Hallstrm. Abba on fame, divorce, ageing backwards and why they've returned to rescue 2021", "After 40 Years, Abba Takes a Chance With Its Legacy", "Abba's New Music Delayed Until Later This Year", "Bjrn Ulvaeus Confirms There Are Now Five New Abba songs", "Whatever Happened To That New ABBA Music We Were Promised? It topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, ABBA's first American number-one single on any chart. Between 1989 and 2004 she withdrew from public life. 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A second 12-track album was released in 1999, titled ABBAmania, with proceeds going to the Youth Music charity in England. A third single, "Eagle", was released in continental Europe and Down Under becoming a number one hit in Belgium and a Top 10 hit in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and South Africa, but barely charting Down Under. The same year, Thank You for the Music, a four-disc box set comprising all the group's hits and stand-out album tracks, was released with the involvement of all four members. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1995. The PS2 version features 20 ABBA songs, while 25 songs feature on the PS3 version. The name of the band ABBA was formed from all band members names, Agnetha Fltskog, Bjrn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. [68] In January 1983, Fltskog started recording sessions for a solo album, as Lyngstad had successfully released her album Something's Going On some months earlier. In July 1980, ABBA released the single "The Winner Takes It All", the group's eighth UK chart topper (and their first since 1978). Two broken marriages, a horrific road traffic accident in 1983, her mums suicide in 1994 and being targeted by stalkers caused her to step away from the limelight. 22. The concert attracted immense media attention from across Europe and Australia. Hundreds of visual effects artists then worked on the show for two years, led by the London branch of Industrial Light & Magic, a visual effects company founded by George Lucas. [42], Their official logo, distinct with the backward "B," was designed by Rune Sderqvist, who designed most of ABBA's record sleeves. In June 1992, he and Ulvaeus appeared with U2 at a Stockholm concert, singing the chorus of "Dancing Queen", and a few years later during the final performance of the B & B in Concert in Stockholm, Andersson joined the cast for an encore at the piano. Fltskog and Lyngstad performed live, singing "The Way Old Friends Do"[91] before they were joined on stage by Andersson and Ulvaeus. World exclusive: Here we go again! September 1992 saw the release of ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits, a new compilation album. [35] The single also became the first record to chart for the quartet in the United States, where it peaked at number 114 on the Cashbox singles chart and number 117 on the Record World singles chart. Bjrn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Benny Anderson, and Ani-Frid Lyngstad, who became the most popular couples during the 1970s. After Universal Music purchased PolyGram (and, thus, ABBA's label Polar Music International), control of the group's catalogue returned to Stockholm. They both went on to remarry after ABBA, Benny remarried and had a son, while Bjorn had two daughters. During the Australian tour, she performed in a skin-tight white jumpsuit, causing one Australian newspaper to use the headline "Agnetha's bottom tops dull show". Both "Dancing Queen" and "Take a Chance on Me" were certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over one million copies each.[141]. (A Man After Midnight)" with slightly altered lyrics. In 2022, the group will go on tour, performing using holographic avatars of their younger selves. In March 1976, the band released the compilation album Greatest Hits. It did better in North America than "Chiquitita", reaching number 12 in Canada and number 19 in the US, and made the Top 20 in Japan. In 1999, ABBA's music was adapted into Mamma Mia!, a stage musical that toured worldwide and, as of April 2022, is still in the top-ten longest running productions on both Broadway (closed in 2015) and the West End (still running). "Under Attack", the group's final release before disbanding, was a Top 5 hit in the Netherlands and Belgium. With sales of 30 million,[72] Gold is the best-selling ABBA album, as well as one of the best-selling albums worldwide. 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