"popular in the United Kingdom, most of Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In ""Frida – The DVD"", Lyngstad explains how she and Fältskog developed as singers, as ABBA's recordings grew more complex over the years. The band's popularity in the United States would remain on a comparatively smaller scale, and ""Dancing Queen"" became the only ""Billboard"" Hot 100 number-one single ABBA had there (they did, however, get three more singles to the number-one position on other ""Billboard"" charts, including ""Billboard"" Adult Contemporary and Hot Dance Club Play). Nevertheless, ""Arrival"" finally became a true breakthrough release for ABBA on the"
"the album peaked at number 13. ""SOS"" also became ABBA's second number-one single in Germany and their third in Australia. Success was further solidified with ""Mamma Mia"" reaching number-one in the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia. In the United States, ""SOS"" peaked at number 10 on the Record World Top 100 singles chart and number 15 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, picking up the BMI Award along the way as one of the most played songs on American radio in 1975. The success of the group in the United States had until that time been limited to single releases."
"would become ABBA's last major hit, and the last No. 1 single of their career. It topped the charts in Belgium, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands, and was also ABBA's 13th and final No. 1 on the Eurochart. ""One of Us"" proved a successful hit in Austria, France, Norway, South Africa, Spain and Switzerland, reaching the Top 10 in all of these countries. In the United Kingdom, ""One of Us"" debuted at No. 11 on the singles chart on 12 December 1981 and peaked at No. 3 the following week, where it stayed for three weeks; it remained in the"
"One of Us (ABBA song) ""One of Us"" (""En av oss"" in Swedish) is the first single from Swedish pop group ABBA's final studio album ""The Visitors"", their eighth for Polar, and their seventh for Epic and Atlantic. It was released in December 1981. The song is also included on the compilation albums """" and ""Number Ones"". ""One of Us""—which had the working titles ""Number 1"" and ""Mio Amore""—was one of the last songs recorded for ABBA's 1981 album ""The Visitors"", and features a lead vocal by Agnetha Fältskog. It was one of a number of tracks that explored the"
"the chance to tour Europe and perform on major television shows; thus the band saw the ""Waterloo"" single chart in many European countries. ""Waterloo"" was ABBA's first number-one single in big markets such as the UK and West Germany. 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. Albeit a short promotional visit, it included their first performance on American television, ""The Mike Douglas Show"". The album ""Waterloo"" only peaked at number 145 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart, but"
"chart for 10 weeks. Upon exiting the Top 10 of the chart on 16 January 1982, ""One of Us"" would become ABBA's final appearance in the UK Top 10 to date. ""One of Us"" was not released as a single in the United States until February 1983, and proved to be ABBA's worst-ever performing charting song in that territory, reaching a high of No. 107, though it should be pointed out this came more than a year after its release elsewhere and ABBA had disbanded by that time. In November 1981, a music video for ""One of Us"" was filmed,"
"album, showed a songwriting maturity and depth of feeling distinctly lacking from their earlier recordings but still placing the band squarely in the pop genre, with catchy tunes and harmonies. Although not revealed at the time of its release, the album's title track, according to Ulvaeus, refers to the secret meetings held against the approval of totalitarian governments in Soviet-dominated states, while other tracks address topics like failed relationships, the threat of war, ageing, and loss of innocence. The album's only major single release, ""One of Us"", proved to be the last of ABBA's nine number-one singles in Germany, this"
"a wise move as it would become ABBA's final No. 1 single of their career. The decision to release ""One of Us"" as a single was made so late that it did not become available in Swedish shops until after ""The Visitors"" had been released. In the United Kingdom, ""One of Us"" was issued in a different sleeve. Whereas the sleeve used in most countries repeated the album cover photo, Epic Records wanted a different image for the British release, and used separate photos of the group members together with a large ABBA logo. Agnetha and Frida appeared on the"
"being in December 1981; and the swansong of their sixteen Top 5 singles on the South African chart. ""One of Us"" was also ABBA's final Top 3 hit in the UK, reaching No. 1 on some charts (such as Record Mirror). Although it topped the album charts across most of Europe, including Ireland, the UK and Germany, ""The Visitors"" was not as commercially successful as its predecessors, showing a commercial decline in previously loyal markets such as France, Australia and Japan. A track from the album, ""When All Is Said and Done"", was released as a single in North America,"
"was the only song from the group's first album which was performed during the group's 1977 tour of Europe and Australia. It was performed by artists (along with ABBA), during the Music for UNICEF Concert in January 1979. Due to its limited release, and the fact that ABBA had not achieved a great following outside of their native Sweden at the time, the song only charted in Scandinavian countries. In Sweden, it did not reach the Swedish sales chart but was a big radio hit reaching #1 on the Tio i topp singles chart. The single was also released in"
"Here We Go Again Tour she went into empty arena and sang ""One of Us"", claiming that it was ""not ready...but it was pretty good"" and that she was ""working on it"". One of Us (ABBA song) ""One of Us"" (""En av oss"" in Swedish) is the first single from Swedish pop group ABBA's final studio album ""The Visitors"", their eighth for Polar, and their seventh for Epic and Atlantic. It was released in December 1981. The song is also included on the compilation albums """" and ""Number Ones"". ""One of Us""—which had the working titles ""Number 1"" and ""Mio"
"2.6 million. ""Greatest Hits"" was released in the US and in Canada in September 1976, but sales of the record did not peak until April 1977, when the song ""Dancing Queen"" reached number one in both countries. ""Dancing Queen"" was not included on ""Greatest Hits"", but it was the lead single from the new studio album ""Arrival"" and it had generated interest in ABBA's back catalogue. ""Greatest Hits"" has been certified platinum in the US and quintuple platinum in Canada. The album was issued with two different gatefold covers, depending upon the territory. The painting on the original Scandinavian release"
"in Switzerland, Belgium, Costa Rica and France, where it stayed at No. 1 for five weeks. The song also reached the top five in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and Australia amongst others. In the United States, the single reached No. 13 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 (and No. 9 on Radio & Records) in March 1983, and was the 20th biggest selling single in the US that year. The song and its video were heavily promoted and played on MTV. The album itself received good reviews, with ""Billboard"" writing: ""ABBA's auburn-haired songstress makes a bold solo project"
"Number Ones (ABBA album) Number Ones is a compilation album of recordings by Swedish pop group ABBA, released by Polar Music in 2006. Whereas """" pulls together 19 of the group's biggest hits and most familiar songs, ""Number Ones"" is a variation on this concept, collecting 18 tracks that were #1 hits in many of the countries where ABBA were successful. In the end, only three tracks from ""ABBA Gold"" do not make the cut: ""Does Your Mother Know"", ""Lay All Your Love on Me"", and ""Thank You for the Music"". In the UK, the track list includes the full"
"Dancing Queen ""Dancing Queen"" is a Europop song by the Swedish group ABBA, and the lead single from their fourth studio album, ""Arrival"". It was written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson. Andersson and Ulvaeus also produced the song. ""Dancing Queen"" was released as a single in Sweden on 15 August 1976, followed by a UK release and the rest of Europe a few days later. It was a worldwide hit. It became ABBA's only number one hit in the United States, and topped the charts in Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa,"
"of the combined Swedish singles and albums chart, and ""People Need Love"" reached No. 3 on the Swedish radio chart show ""Tio i topp"" (The Top Ten). It was the foursome's first charting record in the United States where it peaked at No. 114 on the Cashbox singles chart and No. 117 on Record World singles chart - impressive for unknown Swedish artists in America at the time. The Playboy Records U.S. release was credited to ""Bjorn & Benny (with Svenska Flicka)"" and according to ABBA's manager Stig Anderson, the single could have been a much bigger American hit if"
"ABBA album had re-charted due to the success of the ""Mamma Mia!"" musical featuring the band's songs. But by midweek, the Catatonia album was 15,000 sales ahead and it went on to secure the top place in the chart. At the time, all three Catatonia studio albums were in the top 40. ""Equally Cursed and Blessed"" went on to be certificated platinum by the British Phonographic Industry showing at least 300,000 copies sold. The American release of the album saw two tracks from ""International Velvet"" added, including ""Road Rage"". The album spawned one Top 10 single, ""Dead from the Waist"
"women were simply guesting on the new ""Björn & Benny"" single. However, the very positive audience reaction was unexpected. ""People Need Love"" made the Top 20 of the combined Swedish singles and albums chart, and reached No. 3 on the popular Swedish radio chart show, ""Tio i topp"" (The Top Ten). It was the foursome's first charting record in the United States, where it peaked at No. 114 on the Cashbox singles chart and No. 117 on Record World singles chart. The Playboy Records U.S. release was credited to ""Bjorn & Benny (with Svenska Flicka)"", and according to ABBA's manager"
"hits ""Eagle"" and ""Thank You for the Music"". The album includes three songs from ABBA's 1977 tour mini-musical ""The Girl with the Golden Hair"". These songs are ""Thank You for the Music"", ""I Wonder (Departure)"" and ""I'm a Marionette"". Altogether the album contained just nine songs. ""ABBA: The Album"" reached No. 1 in many territories. In the UK it debuted at the top and remained there for seven weeks, ending up as the third biggest selling album of the year (behind the movie soundtrack LPs of ""Saturday Night Fever"" and ""Grease""). In the US it became their highest charting album,"
"The album and its three singles ""I Found Love"", ""Every Shade of Blue"" and ""Take Me to Your Heart"" were only released in some European countries, North America, Japan and Australia, but not in Britain. In 1998, Dallin and Woodward asked Fahey to join them to record the track ""Waterloo"" (a cover of the classic ABBA song) for the Eurovision celebration ""A Song for Eurotrash"" on Channel 4. However, Fahey made it clear that this was a one-off and that she was not formally rejoining the group. In 1999, Dallin, Woodward and Fahey were interviewed together for an episode of"
"sold an estimated 370 million units worldwide, ABBA became the best-selling band of the 1970s. In 1977, ""Dancing Queen"" became ABBA's only number one hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ABBA and Led Zeppelin are the only acts to have had 8 consecutive UK #1 albums. Shortly after the release of their seventh album ""Super Trouper"" (1980), Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA decided to end their marriage, just as Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog had done two years prior. This event did not stop the foursome from working together. ABBA's eighth album ""The Visitors"" was released in November"
"ABBA recording to be composed by Fältskog. It also makes it one of just two ABBA tracks during their whole career not to be composed by the Andersson/Anderson/Ulvaeus team, the other being a medley of American folk songs, issued as the B-side of 1978 single ""Summer Night City"". """"Elva kvinnor i ett hus"""" includes one of Agnetha's most successful Swedish solo hits, namely her Swedish version of ABBA's ""S.O.S."". Upon its release at the end of 1975, it entered the Swedish singles chart and eventually peaked at number 4 in January 1976, becoming only her third single to reach that"
"as the group's popularity was declining, and became ABBA's worst selling single since ""I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"", seven years earlier. It only managed to chart as high as #25 in the UK, breaking a run of 18 consecutive Top 10 hits (from ""SOS"" in October 1975 to ""One of Us"" in December 1981). This 18-hit run had equaled that of The Beatles, who had consecutive Top 10 hits from 1964 (with ""A Hard Day's Night"") to 1976 (with ""Yesterday""), broken by ""Back in the U.S.S.R."". Although ""Head Over Heels"" did experience Top 10 success"
"ABBA costumes for their tours and TV performances. Since the members of ABBA went their separate ways, Lyngstad has been the only one who openly regrets there has never been a reunion to date. Her next solo album, in Swedish, was ""Frida ensam"" (""Frida Alone""), released in 1975 during the ABBA years, and produced by Benny Andersson. This album includes her successful Swedish version of ""Fernando"", which stayed at the No. 1 spot in the Svensktoppen radio charts for 9 weeks, but was never released as a single. The album was recorded between sessions of the ABBA albums ""Waterloo"" and"
"from Sweden. It is the fourth and final single from their first album, ""The ABBA Generation"". When the single came out in the spring of 2000, it peaked at number one in Mexico, becoming their first number one hit in that country. The song was also a smash hit in South America peaking at number three in Argentina, number five in Chile, number six in Colombia and number fifteen in Brazil. This was the main single for the United States promotion, when the album was released in March 2000. ""Dancing Queen"" reached ninety-five on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, thirty-six on"
"biggest hit being 1970's ""Om tårar vore guld"" (No. 1, 15 weeks). Fältskog also recorded the Swedish Christmas album ""Nu tändas tusen juleljus"" with daughter Linda Ulvaeus which peaked at No. 6 on the Swedish album chart in December 1981. Chartwise Fältskog was the most successful solo artist of the four ABBA members, both before and during the band's international career. Fältskog participated in Melodifestivalen again, albeit only as a composer. In 1981, she wrote the ballad ""Men Natten Är Vår"" (""But the Night Is Ours"") with lyrics by Ingela Forsman, but instead of performing the song in the contest"
"Svensktoppen (24 March – 2 June 1974), including 7 weeks at No. 1. Unlike other Eurovision-winning tunes, the song's appeal transcended Europe: ""Waterloo"" also reached the Top 10 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Rhodesia and the United States (peaking at No. 6, their third highest-charting U.S. hit after No. 1 ""Dancing Queen"" and No. 3 ""Take a Chance on Me""). The ""Waterloo"" album performed similarly well in Europe, although in the US it failed to match the success of the single. ABBA had originally cited the song ""See My Baby Jive"", by English glam rock band Wizzard, as a major"
"By early 1976, the group already had four Top 30 singles on the US charts, but the album market proved to be tough to crack. The eponymous ""ABBA "" album generated three American hits, but it only peaked at number 165 on the ""Cashbox"" album chart and number 174 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart. Opinions were voiced, by ""Creem"" in particular, that in the US ABBA had endured ""a very sloppy promotional campaign"". Nevertheless, the group enjoyed warm reviews from the American press. ""Cashbox"" went as far as saying that ""there is a recurrent thread of taste and artistry inherent"
"which was stupid because we were always a pop group."" In late 1974, ""So Long"" was released as a single in the United Kingdom but it received no airplay from Radio 1 and failed to chart. In the middle of 1975, ABBA released ""I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"", which again received little airplay on Radio 1 but managed to climb the charts, to number 38. Later that year, the release of their self-titled third studio album ""ABBA"" and single ""SOS"" brought back their chart presence in the UK, where the single hit number six and"
"Piper""; in Argentina and Canada it was ""Our Last Summer"", and in the US it was ""Lay All Your Love on Me"" -- all of which were also taken from the ""Super Trouper"" album. ""On and On and On"" peaked at No. 9 in Australia, making it the 15th (and final) ABBA single to reach the Top 10 in that country. Although the song only managed to reach No. 90 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, its inclusion on a 12-inch single with the songs ""Super Trouper"" and ""Lay All Your Love on Me"" merits all three songs as"
"Frida (later ABBA) to record their debut single ""People Need Love"" and later the album ""Ring Ring"". Lyngstad briefly continued her solo career by recording her acclaimed solo album ""Frida ensam"" and her accompanying single ""Fernando"" in Swedish. Due to her commitment to ABBA, she did not release solo albums and singles until in 1982 and 1984, with ""Something's Going On"" and ""Shine"", produced by Genesis drummer Phil Collins and record producer Steve Lillywhite respectively. Her single ""I Know There's Something Going On"" from her 1982 album peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States."
"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. The group also had 12 Top 20 singles on the ""Billboard"" Adult Contemporary chart with two of them, ""Fernando"" and ""The Winner Takes It All"", reaching number-one. ""Lay All Your Love on Me"" was ABBA's fourth number-one single on a ""Billboard"" chart, topping the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Nine ABBA albums made their way into the top half of the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart, with seven of them reaching the Top 50 and four"
"herself, she chose new talent Kicki Moberg. The song placed 9th out of 10. The single, which Fältskog produced in the Polar Studios with the same musicians as on contemporary ABBA recordings, was backed with the Swedish version of ""I'm Still Alive"", entitled ""Här Är Mitt Liv"" (""Here Is My Life""), a song which she herself had performed in its English version (lyrics by ex-husband Björn Ulvaeus) during ABBA's 1979 world tour. Moberg's recording of the song remains the only version to have been officially released to date. Fältskog sang solo parts in the following ABBA songs: ""Disillusion"" (the only"