Abba Gold: Greatest Hits

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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. Austrian album certifications – ABBA – Gold (40th Anniversary Edition)" (in German). IFPI Austria . Retrieved 16 June 2020. Italian album certifications – ABBA – ABBA Gold Their Greatest Hits" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 5 August 2020. Select "2020" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "ABBA Gold Their Greatest Hits" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione". Najpopularniejsze albumy i single 2019 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 28 January 2020. With sales of 30 million, [1] Gold is the best-selling ABBA album, as well one of the best-selling albums worldwide. Since 1992, it has been re-released several times, most notably in 1999 as the first remastered reissue to mark the group's 25th anniversary of winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, in 2008 to coincide with the release of the film Mamma Mia! and most recently in 2014 to mark the group's 40th anniversary of winning the Eurovision Song Contest.

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The 2002 re-release was not released in Australia, while in New Zealand, the international edition was issued. Rare misses aside, hearing Faltskog and Lyngstad’s impeccable voices weave through a battalion’s worth of riffs, bells, and whistles is an indefatigable source of ecstasy. Listening to “S.O.S.” or “Dancing Queen” or “Super Trouper” for the first time can feel like hearing “ Good Vibrations” or “ Born to Run” in the same fashion: Your pleasure centers are overwhelmed until they blow up like the Grinch’s tiny heart, expanding beyond their old size and becoming something new. 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.” Bundesverband Musikindustrie: Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (ABBA)". Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 2014-04-11. BuzzFeed music editor Matthew Perpetua included Gold: Greatest Hits among the compilations he considered "so well curated in presenting a fertile period of a career that they are arguably an artist's definitive work". [21]

Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts – 1993" (in German). Offizielle Deutsche Charts . Retrieved 12 December 2018. ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 100 Albums 2008". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (PDF) (in Spanish) (1sted.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. p.954. ISBN 84-8048-639-2 . Retrieved 23 August 2019.As the division of labor between Andersson and Ulvaeus became clearer later in the band’s discography—the former handled most of the music, the latter wrote the bulk of the lyrics—the divide between subject matter and sound became even more pronounced. The tumult of the band’s personal lives began to subtly leak into their art: “Knowing Me, Knowing You” and “The Winner Takes It All” are crushing glimpses at marriages in disrepair, sung by adults who know they can’t help but carry on with their lives. Relatively silly cuts like future booty-call anthem “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” are marked by quiet urgency: “Half-past 12/And I’m watchin’ the late show in my flat all alone/How I hate to spend the evening on my own,” Faltskog moans. Even “Dancing Queen,” the band’s most purely joyous moment, can’t fully give itself over to pleasure. It’s a celebration of impermanence. You may be young and sweet now, but you won’t be 17 forever. Le cifre degli album più venduti nel 2008" (in Italian). Musica e Dischi. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012 . Retrieved 29 June 2022. ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 100 Albums 1999". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018.

Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (ABBA; 'Gold - Greatest Hits ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 16 June 2020. The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (ABBA; 'Gold – Greatest Hits ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Albums 1995". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Both the concert and album have been mooted for some time. The avatar concept – or “Abbatars” as Ulvaeus has called them – was announced in 2016 by music manager Simon Fuller (who is not involved with the 2022 iteration). In 2017, Andersson elaborated on the project, saying: “It will take a bit of time, it takes time to digitalise a face. It’s fun that it’s so technologically advanced.” In 2018, a TV show featuring the avatars was announced, co-produced by the BBC and NBC, which has not yet been aired. Around the same time a limited edition Waterloo seven-inch vinyl picture disc will be issued and as previously reported a deluxe edition of the Waterloo album will also be released.