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| Riverwide | Mar 18 2013, 01:37 PM Post #41 |
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Oooh, sounds good! |
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| johnnox | Mar 18 2013, 03:10 PM Post #42 |
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I only heard two verses and a chorus but immediately thought it would be a better single than the one chosen. |
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| Riverwide | May 18 2013, 11:56 PM Post #43 |
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ABBA overtake The Beatles as Gold becomes the UK’s second biggest selling album of all-time ABBA's Gold: Greatest Hits becomes the UK's second biggest selling album of all-time, knocking The Beatles’ iconic album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band into third place. ABBA’s Gold: Greatest Hits has overtaken sales of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to become the UK’s second biggest selling album of all time, according to the Official Charts Company’s sales data. While both albums have now sold over 5.1 million copies in the UK, the Swedish band’s 1992 Best Of collection has nudged ahead of The Beatles’ iconic 1967 album by nearly 15,000 copies. An estimated one in five British households owns a copy of either Gold or Sgt Pepper’s. The announcement coincides with this year’s Eurovision Song Contest being held in the group’s homeland; ABBA famously won Eurovision in 1974 with Waterloo, which became their first ever Number 1 single on the UK’s Official Singles Chart. ABBA founder / songwriter Björn Ulvaeus told OfficialCharts.com "It’s feels unreal - outselling the greatest record of all time!" Official Charts Company Managing Director, Martin Talbot, adds “The British people took Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-frid to their hearts from the night that they won the Eurovision Song Contest on British soil, in Brighton, 39 years ago. So it is perhaps apt that their huge Gold hits album has reached such heady heights, all these years later.” Gold features all nine of the Swedish band’s Official Singles Chart Number 1s – including Waterloo, Mamma Mia, Fernando, Dancing Queen, Knowing Me Knowing You, The Name Of The Game, Take A Chance On Me, The Winner Takes It All and Super Trouper – and has spent a total of eight weeks at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart. In related news, it’s a double celebration for ABBA star Agnetha Faltskog who also looks set to score her highest charting solo album of her career later this evening (Sunday). According to Wednesday’s Official Chart Update figures, her new offering, A, could go Top 10 when the new Official Albums Chart Top 100 is announced at 7pm tonight here. Agnetha‘s previous UK best was 2004’s My Colouring Book, which peaked at Number 12. Queen’s 1981 Greatest Hits album remains the UK’s biggest selling album of all-time with 5.9 million sales. Adele’s landmark 2011 album, 21, and Oasis’ 1995 second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, complete the Top 5. The Official Top 5 Biggest Selling Albums Of All-Time are as follows*: ALBUM TITLEARTISTYEAR OF RELEASESALES TO DATE 1GREATEST HITSQUEEN19815.9 MILLION 2GOLD - GREATEST HITSABBA19925.1 MILLION 3SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BANDBEATLES19675.1 MILLION 421ADELE20114.6 MILLION 5(WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY?OASIS19954.6 MILLION © 2013 theOfficial Charts Company. All rights reserved. * - Sales rounded to the nearest 100k. |
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| FuckBuddy | May 19 2013, 03:52 AM Post #44 |
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well deserved for such a timeless iconic act that's been defining the pop sound up to our times |
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| Riverwide | Jul 22 2014, 11:51 PM Post #45 |
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ABBA will release the complete Live At Wembley Arena concert for the first time in October. Abba performed at Wembley Arena on November 10, 1979. Portions of the show were included on the 1986 live album ABBA Live but until now the complete Wembley show has never been available. ABBA Live At Wembley Arena will be released in 2CD and 3LP editions. The album will be released in October. Track List: Gammal fäbodpsalm Voulez-Vous If It Wasn’t For The Nights As Good As New Knowing Me, Knowing You Rock Me Chiquitita Money, Money, Money I Have A Dream Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) SOS Fernando The Name Of The Game Eagle Thank You For The Music Why Did It Have To Be Me Intermezzo No 1 I’m Still Alive Summer Night City Take A Chance On Me Does Your Mother Know Hole In Your Soul The Way Old Friends Do Dancing Queen Waterloo
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| Riverwide | Apr 27 2018, 04:57 PM Post #46 |
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Abba have announced that they have written and recorded their first new songs since they split in 1983. The Swedish four-piece, who had nine No 1 hits in the UK between 1974 and 1980, and who have sold hundreds of millions of records worldwide, announced on Instagram that they had recorded two new songs for a project in which avatars of the band will perform. The band said in a statement: “The decision to go ahead with the exciting Abba avatar tour project had an unexpected consequence. We all felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio. So we did. And it was like time had stood still and we had only been away on a short holiday. An extremely joyful experience!” One of the two new songs that resulted, called I Still Have Faith in You, will feature in a TV special to air in December. The statement concluded: “We may have come of age, but the song is new. And it feels good.” Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus revealed details of the band’s forthcoming project in Brussels earlier this week. The centrepiece is the two-hour TV show co-produced by NBC and the BBC, which will see the band perform as computer-generated avatars. Ulvaeus said the band had been digitally scanned and “de-aged” to look like they did in 1979, when they performed their third and final tour. The avatars are then set to tour the world from next year. Abba formed in Stockholm in 1972. They comprised two couples: Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog; and Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, all of whom had enjoyed musical careers in Sweden. The group burst on to the international stage after winning the Eurovision song contest in Brighton in 1974 with their song Waterloo. From the mid-70s until they split, Abba built up a formidable arsenal of global hits including Knowing Me, Knowing You, Take a Chance on Me, Dancing Queen and The Name of the Game – all of which reached No 1 in the UK. Fältskog and Lyngstad were the lead singers; Andersson and Ulvaeus composed the songs. Never less than impeccably produced and performed, Abba’s records were critically disdained at the time, but their popularity has endured. Their 1992 compilation Abba Gold has sold 30m copies – more than 5m of those in the Britain – and . Their jukebox musical Mamma Mia! debuted in the West End in 1999 and is still running both in London and worldwide; its website claims that it has been seen by 60 million people in 440 cities. The stage show was adapted into a film in 2008, which grossed $615m (£447m) worldwide. A sequel, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, will be released in June. The actor Lily James – who is set to appear alongside the cast of the first film including Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried and Colin Firth – : “There’s lot of songs in there, lots of new ones. Lots of ones, actually, that weren’t in my repertoire of Abba and I think they’re going to be huge hits again, and reawaken the love of Abba.” Abba’s split in 1983 followed the divorces of both couples. Ulvaeus and Andersson went on to write two musicals, including Chess – a revival by the English National Opera opens on Friday in London – before largely devoting themselves to Abba’s legacy. Fältskog and Lyngstad have kept much lower profiles, though Fältskog – long claimed to be a recluse – returned to pop music with an album, A, which was released in 2013. The group have long held out against lucrative offers to reform – they were reported to have been offered $1bn to play a concert in 2000. In 2014, Ulvaeus told Billboard: “you will never see us on stage again … we don’t need the money, for one thing.” Peter Robinson, editor of Popjustice, described the announcement as “the biggest pop news of the 21st century. Most fans grudgingly admired Abba’s refusal to record new music, but I think we all sometimes daydreamed about the band possibly, maybe, one day having a rethink at the right time, on the right terms and for the right reasons, which seems to be what’s happened here.” He added: “It’s a pop miracle.” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/27/abba-announce-first-new-songs-for-35-years
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| FuckBuddy | Apr 27 2018, 11:18 PM Post #47 |
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If a Pop Bible was written, such news would form the chapter of The Second Coming. According to it, ABBA would comeback with a killer surefire Number One of a song only to eventually land outside the top 20 due to lack of streaming. Then God would punish us all by deleting the charts and exploding the planet. Edited by FuckBuddy, Apr 27 2018, 11:18 PM.
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| Riverwide | Apr 28 2018, 11:22 PM Post #48 |
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| Fembot 1 | Apr 29 2018, 12:58 PM Post #49 |
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| johnnox | Apr 30 2018, 08:04 AM Post #50 |
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Riv - is that an outtake of Frida in the Head Over Heels video?
Edited by johnnox, Apr 30 2018, 08:05 AM.
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| FuckBuddy | May 1 2018, 10:33 PM Post #51 |
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Ain't it amazing ABBA fans have discovered the joy of water sports. |
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