ABBA News - USA Honours ABBA
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- ABBA’s album "Arrival" was inducted into America’s National Recording Registry. What that means, and how it continues ABBA’s string of honours in the United States, in this video.
0:00 Intro
0:23 "Arrival" Honoured
1:20 National Recording Registry
2:00 USA Honours ABBA
3:07 Outro
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Most noteworthy is how they could have just chosen the song "Dancing Queen", but instead realized the entire "Arrival" album is a masterpiece and one of the best albums ever created by anyone.
Agreed. While DQ is an amazing song, ARRIVAL represents the moment when the ABBA sound solidified. It is pretty much pop perfection from start to finish - lyrics to DDD notwithstanding. 😉
ARRIVAL is Abba's earcandy masterful pop purity plus part of the treasure that mainstream pop music owns in recorded discography of the previous century.
Did I see a fiddle in that album? Apart it is a great album and worthy of many acclaims.
This shows how little Americans understand from music as compared to Europeans!
@@Qumak13 I would say instead, that this occasion adds to a segue of events that signal a convergence between North Americans, Europeans and the rest of the World in terms of ABBA appreciation.
USA ABBA fan here!!! (Since Summer 1974) Very proud and happy this happened🎉❤
I thank God that Agnetha Bjorn Benny and Annifrid are still very much with us and still active and a part of the celebrations of their lives and achievements. The love and adoration we ALL hold in our hearts and minds for them are self evident throughout the world and even the USA has lately felt the waves of emotion and cannot resist the tsunami of ABBA.
As a 50+ years old American, I can say I have been a lifelong fan of ABBA. My mom and I would listen and dance to their music all the time. I particularly love Agnetha’s songs, however Frida blends in that special sound that only she can give. Turning a good song into a masterpiece. ❤🎶🎵❤️
Me to😊
As someone who grew up in the US and loved ABBA since Waterloo, it is WONDERFUL to see them rightfully get the recognition they have always deserved! Thank you for this video!😊
Congrats to Abba from this Canadian fan..Awesome news!..Thanks so much..
I live in the USA, never could understand why America didn’t celebrate ABBA more than they did. Yes this is a recognition but they deserve more! I hoping that we give them The Lifetime Achievement award soon. Jag älskar dig!
at the time disco was dying because of a movement and abba went there after releasing a disco album and there were more rock bands on the rise that people were into but they did underappreciate abba also was snobbery but all the documentaries act like abba never made any impact in america they sold out radio music hall plus others
So excited and happy for this honoured. ABBA deserves all. Thank you Bobby's brother. Big hug from San Luis Argentina
ABBA mérite tous les honneurs et la reconnaissance de tout le monde🎉❤🎉❤🎉
In America this is indeed a big honour... and an achievement for a European/Swedish act
Another USA ABBA Fan here. It's about time ABBA got some recognition in the US!
There is no honour or award that is too great for this fabulous band. It's good to hear that the US is giving ABBA the recognition they deserve.🤩 Thanks for this update BB.
Congratulations Abba you truly deserve this special honour ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A long overdue honour. Perhaps this will lead to an announcement about an ABBA Voyage venue opening in the US.
😊I can still remember receiving ABBA's Arrival album, as a gift from my cousin, at Christmas 1976. Even though, "The Album" is my favorite ABBA album............I consider "Arrival", ABBA's most "classic" album, which upon release, solidified their position in pop superstardom.
well, hello from Canada. HUGE ABBA Fan here as well, was born in 1971 so I didn't here about them until 1985, well after they separated, my loss for sure but still feel happy to enjoy their music. Still listen to them today. Keep up the great news!
They toured Canada in 1979, Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton
@@michaelrochester48 Don't tell me this, even though I'm thrilled they came to Canada, but I was also 8 so it wasn't in the cards. Thanks @michaelrochester48 🤩
Yes ! Congrats ABBA !
As an American, I’m glad that ABBA is getting much deserved credit and above all critical recognition. As someone who was a young kid in 1975 when I got hooked on ABBA after hearing SOS, I only wish it would have happened at the time they were exploding throughout the rest of the world, 70s and 80s. But, I guess it’s better late than never and I’m happy that their genius is being highlighted in the U.S. finally. Thanks Bobby’s Brother for highlighting this honor and also recognizing your American subscribers as well.
Félicitations à ABBA pour cette nomination aux Etats Unis. Merci Bobby's pour le partage de cette merveilleuse nouvelle ❤❤❤❤❤
AMAZING and TIMELY for cosmically legendary GOLDEN COUPLES of music to receive THEIR rightfully earned musically crowns 💕💞💖💗💓 Lifelong ABBA fan 💓
Greetings BB! Coming from one of the American ABBA "slumberers" it is really a great honor to have the four members of the group ABBA in our Hall of Fames. They certainly tried to capture the American audience, but a lot of European music has missed American radio and concert halls. Considering so many of us who live here are of European descent, it is sort of sad that this music hasn't been embraced tighter.
Good to see even the U.S finally appreciating ABBA 👍
ABBA always did well in the United States, they just were not a phenomenon like elsewhere. They were the first country in the world to chart an ABBA song with people need love in 1972 went to number six on billboard with Waterloo and we don’t know or even care about Eurovision, ABBA has always been hampered by the fact that Americans appreciate artist who tour and you could see on stage and ABBA did not do any tours until 1979 which hampered a lot of their success
@@michaelrochester48 Plus the US rock media's weren't always really that friendly and refered to Abba's music ironically as oompah sounds/Euro pap/muzak for elevators etc nothing serious really to their estimation.Mainly different culture to the Europeans Aussies and the rest.They also had their own continental music acts.As they finally said (Bennny must have said that i think) no matter if they didn't make it that big there they were mega stars and solid sellers almost in the rest of the world.
I always felt the whole touring thing was a but overstated. Never felt this was a really good reason for their lack of major success in the U.S.
❤ Greetings from coastal Mississippi. I have all my ABBA albums.....been listening for 50 years....only the greatest group ever 🎉
USA fan here since 1977. I am so glad and so proud that they chose Arrival. This was my first ABBA album in 1977. That album cover was the very first time I ever set eyes on what ABBA looked like. Arrival has a very lighthearted pop kind of sound which is the style I love ABBA the most with. They made an excellent choice in choosing this album to induct.
I’m a friend of Carl Magnus Palm, and I have asked him if research into the 1979 tour would add to legacy of ABBA. At this point, it is a desire of mine, and if more time opens up, I would consider it an honor to take this on. I have always felt that ABBA’s impact here far exceeds the general perception. William. State of Georgia.
I have his new book and it is fantastic. I’m listed as a contributor.
@@michaelrochester48 I'm about to first time order this.I've heard there's a new section on Voyage era,is it truely a dish?
hi why do u believe in america there impact far exceeds the general perception
I am reading some of the comments here, and I have to say as an American many of the international crowd do not understand at all about ABBA and the United States. The USA was the first place where an ABBA song even charted, in 1972 with “people need love.” “Waterloo” went top 10 in the United States in 1974 without Eurovision…most Americans don’t even know what Eurovision is and it got into the top 10 simply because it was a great song. They went top 20 with “i do I do I do I do,” “SOS”, “knowing me, knowing you”, “the name of the game”, and “does your mother know;” they went top five with “take a chance on me” and “the winner takes it all”. Top 30 with “Mama Mia” and “Chiquitita.”So they did quite well, but they would’ve been the phenomenon they were everywhere else if they just did a couple of tours here to get the audience excited. Americans appreciate touring bands and not touring hurt them in the United States.
Yet i'm still gladly surprised that IDO,I DO was a top 15 hit!A rather clearly European kinda 'retro" sound for the US market.This single barely scratched the UK top 40 back then.
I do×5 has a very American sound, not European. It sounds like a song you would have heard on American radio in the 50s, very retro for the 70s.
@@meropale why did it have to be me is another example of an ABBA song with 50s Roots.
@@meropale It also sounds quite Euro-Schlager to me.But it does also have a retro '50s flavour.Still it was great that made it there in the 'modern" 1975 US Bilboard charts that was mainly a rock n soul oriented field.
Song was mainly inspired by the '50s European schlager music but yes also the saxophone sounds of '50s Bil Vaughn that fronted American orchestras.But It strongly strikes more European to my ears since i grew up here plus it's retro too.My uncle had plenty of Schlager old vynils he had bought in W.Germany where he travelled a lot and he played them for us.For Abba it seemed ,pretty unusual for a 'new" pop-glam rock music band to try this at the time.Abba payed a homage to that kind of influences and expiremented a lot they were pretty diverse and daring esp in the early '70s still fine in what they did.
There are 3 0r 4 times when I can remember where I was when I first heard a song played. Dancing Queen was one of them. I was in a parking lo,t late for a very important business meeting. That song came on and made me even later. I could not get out of the car until it was over. Most Americans loved the song,, knew ABBA sang it, but that was it. Over the years we and certainly I didn't hear much from ABBA. Then the Pandemic came and I rediscovered them, along with one hundred plus other ABBA songs that I love. They are by far the greatest band I have ever heard and I almost missed out on the rest of their work.
Abba hat es sich wirklich verdient. Die Musik, die Lyrik und die wunderschönen Stimmen von Agnetha und Annifrid sind ein Garant für Erfolg. Danke Bobby für die Zusammenfassung. ❤
Recognition of their genius work.
Great! Thank you 👍
Felicitaciones ABBA. Muy merecido!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Congratulations ABBA!! Interesting that this album was singled out - perhaps also because it was their breakthrough album release in America with 3 songs that are among their most memorable, brilliantly recorded and produced. Thanks Bobby's B ❤
Ooooh yes, please... a documentary on Classic Albums ❤👑 It's the top selling ABBA studio album in New Zealand, and the 37th best selling album of all time here. The Best of ABBA (1975) and ABBA Gold (1992) are #1 and #7. I love Arrival so much.
❤❤ABBA❤❤
Outstanding! The 'Arrival' album along with 'Fernando' (single) is the era which put ABBA into orbit!!!! 'Arrival' made them in icons.
The big songs of this era,:
1. Fernando **
2. Dancing Queen
3. Money Money Money
4. Knowing Me, Knowing You
Congrats to Polar Music/ABBA team:
Stikkan Anderson (RIP)
Gorel Hanser
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Benny Andersson
Bjorn Ulvares
Agnetha Falkskog
Rutger Gunnarsson (RIP)
Michael B Tretow
&
Polar Music/ABBA's top tier session and touring musicians.
** Single. Incorporated into 'Arrival' era and promo. ABBA's longest hold on #1 on a major chart -- 14 consecutive weeks in Australia. This song is also technically a cover of the original 'Fernando' Swedish version from 1975's multiple platinum 'Frida Ensam' (Frida Alone) album..A huge #1
radio hit.
There is also a vocal demo "Tango" version of 'Fernando'.
Wow👏😍🎉finally! Congratulations, the best group ever!!! Thanks BB for the video. Greetings from México 🇲🇽
it’s amazing that their album, ‘Gold-greatest hits’ has sold 11/12 million in the US alone.
According to infos i've read in an Abba chartforum it's estimated sales are way over 13 millions if all formats and club sales got combined.Of course Universal hasn't uploaded the certifications since 2002!As usual....too lousy.
Thank you BB. I never miss new posts from your channel. ABBA deserves all the awards possible from USA especially after the obvious snubs from the Shammys the last couple of years. My apologies to ABBA and lovers of good music everywhere.
I’ll never understand what took so long, but all I can say is that it’s about time!!! Ty, BB!
This was my first ABBA album. I just didn't have the money in the earlier 70s, and that album is still with me. All I need is a turntable :)
All ways love your post always ❤️ ♥️ 💕 💖 💛 💗 ❤️ ♥️
Thank you for your kind gesture, and for watching!
Growing up in the 70s, I remember that Dancing Queen is THE song that put ABBA on the American map. I guess we were a little late to the fan club as a nation, but after Dancing Queen every person in the country had heard of ABBA.
PS, as @michaelrochester48 has already noted, I was one of those ABBA fans trying to explain to others that Dancing Queen didn't even BEGIN to represent the greatness of ABBA! It just intersected nicely with the 5 minutes of disco fame, and true ABBA fans were frustrated that it got dismissed along with disco.
Hi Bobby's Brother,
Yet again you know about ABBA inside and out and I am still learning. I like to add, I fully agree with garlen8 of what was said.
Anthony UK.
Thank you BB❤ ABBA is EVERYTHING ❤❤❤
Congratulation ABBA! MERECIDISIMO RECONOCIMIENTO! GRACIAS BOBBY una vez más por tu excelente informe. Saludos desde América del Sur (.Buenos Aires, ♥ ♥ Clau Vivian
Hey B'sb i might not remember well but have ever done a video on Abba's 'Gracias por La Musica" album?This one was almost never talked in Abba docus.Abba were big in Latin American countries mainly since 1979.'Chiquitita" was no1 in Mexico for 32 weeks!
That's true...my brothers ex wife was from Costa Rica and would tell me that ABBA was quite popular there.
Super Trouper is next! Although, in reality, Voulez Vous is my favorite ABBA album.
Abba' s Arrival is the best ever.x
Beyond words!!!
I do wonder if ABBA are more recognised now that they ever were in their 10 year heyday. As for Arrival, I also wonder how much this has to do with all things Mamma Mia, with six of the albums original songs being prominantly featured in the musical and both films. I'm very pleased to four ABBA members are still around to witness the entire world finally accepting what they created has been monumental to so many peoples lives all over the world. A lot of the so called music experts and critics were downright hostile toward the group back in the 70's and 80's, I hope a few of them are still around to witness how wrong they were!
AAHHHH you DID make a video for it! THANK YOU!!!! and a wonderful video it is!!
Je souhaite un très bon anniversaire à Biorn . I love Bjorn ❤❤❤❤❤
Very nice news piece!
All up, I see Arrival as their seminal work above all others.
Hope they'll listen to Soldiers and The Piper
Thank you🎉Liebe Grüße aus Österreich😊 I remember Mike Oldfield take Arrival for a Cover! Who do remember this?!
So good.
A R R IV A L
Bobby's Brother ,this is great news.... Could you look into the story of Richie Blackmor of Deep Purple and Rainbow going to Stockholm in the late 1970s and,atempting to get Agnetha to record one record with his group and then being turned down ?
Richie Blackmore was a huge fan of ABBA
@@michaelrochester48 The entire Rainbow band loved A B B A .,along with about every big name group in the 1970s. Everyone kept that Hus Hush.since it didnt look god for Heavey Metal bands
I've got this album.
I can't believe they have still never won a Grammy
Look I love ABBA and I am happy for that designation. However, “dancing queen” is the “don’t stop believing”” of ABBA songs. For the ignorant non-ABBA fans that is the only song they ever recorded and frustrates me when they have wonderful songs like SOS, Waterloo, and knowing me, knowing you, they always say, oh yeah ABBA, dancing Queen. It pisses me off.
ABBA are honoured with the recognition of the entire “Arrival” album.
@@bobbysbrother137
My favorite song on the album is actually tiger
@@michaelrochester48 I love the live performance even more.My fave deep cut,'That's Me".Splendid video too.
KMKY is on Arrival!
Btw has anyone watched this newly uploaded multiviewed video by an 'old" US utuber who calls himself ''Profesor of rock" that's titled 'Abba i can't stand them/i loath" smth?That's the opposite side,kind of a rather judgemental if not even prejudiced if not k 'limited" US old rocker who can't get Abba the way we do.Even if i understand thits,it's sad to read such raw thumbnail titles. Pretty reminiscent of the '70s uncool era for Abba back then.It pulled some strings of some older bitter times.
This commentators voice resembles my favourite Benny!
Yet Abba never won a Grammy. Dancing Queen and the Winner takes it all should have Grammies. Just shows how unappreciated Abba was in the USA.
Grammy's have little to do with substance in music. They are irrelevant.
Why do you feel a Grammy is something of value? It's not based on music as some still believe.
I have made a lengthy post where I said that Abba had actually several top 40 hits many of which made the top 20 and top 10. They had appreciation, but the lack of touring of the group in the United States because we value touring and seeing a group live than other countries do.
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I don’t see Madonna’s name in this year’s list.
America will never choose Abba as a winner. They didn’t at the Grammy’s and will not do so now.
There’s factually no winner or loser here. ABBA is inducted onto the list like everyone else, and stays there.
@@bobbysbrother137 Well, at least some good news😉
50 years ago
Waterloo (ᗅᗺᗷᗅ) won ESC
April 6 1974 also same day
Hooked on a Feeling
First #1 on Billboard from Sweden
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Frida looked at Веnny so mystacally.