They don't have the catchy melodic hooks of the old stuff though and that's essential for success. It's understandable as they're all different people now to an extent.
We barely understand it today, but ABBA is one of all time best selling band/artists in the world. I don't remember the exact place in list, but there is only huge stars as Elvis Presley, Beatles, Michael Jackson and maybe some more that are not beaten by ABBA. Up to the shift of millenium, ABBA was effort one billion USD for reunite, make one album and a world tour of 100 shows. They rejected the effort.
During their imperial phase, ABBA scored 25 Top 40 hits in the UK, including 19 Top 10s, of which nine went all the way to Number 1 - over the space of nine years.
Here in the UK they were massive from 74-82, nine number ones, many top ten hits-pretty much everything they released went top ten & a load of number one & top ten albums. The 1992 Gold compilation recently notched up a thousand weeks on the UK chart-the first to do so as it has over the last 29 years kept re-entering. Even outstripping much longer released huge albums such as Tubular Bells, Bat Out Of Hell, Thriller etc.
I remember back then when The day before you came didnt make any impact in UK that Abba or Björn were actually disappointed , dont remember if it were tv or newspapers - For me as yuong man we knew they were quitting and done adults +35 music for the last 3 years or parents
ABBA were an unusual Eurovision winner, in that they broke with tradition and sang their song in English rather than their native language. That may well have helped them win the contest and it certainly helped them storm the British pop charts. Released on March 12 in the UK, “Waterloo” entered the bestsellers on April 20. Two weeks later, on May 4, it rose to No.1, where it stayed for two weeks. Britain’s love affair with the group was underway. A truly international hit Nor was it just in the UK that ABBA stormed the charts. The song topped the bestsellers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, West Germany, Ireland, Norway, South Africa, and Switzerland. It also reached the Top 3 in Austria, France, the Netherlands, and Spain, and hit No.6 in America.
50 hit singles worldwide and 400 million records sold, ABBA has become the 3rd biggest selling group in history. Now 40 years later they have the #1 album in the world, Voyager.
The greatest pop group ever AND they just released a new album after 40 years called Voyage. With an incredible show with ABBATARS performing their songs. Check out “ I still have faith in you” You can see the ABBATARS in the end of that clip.
48 years ago today, ABBA The Swedish Supergroup began their reign on the Official Charts as Waterloo became their first UK Number 1 single. The Swedish quartet's first UK chart entry made its way to the top of the Official Singles Chart in its third week, 22 days after winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.ABBA have scored 9 No. 1 singles and 10 No. 1 albums in the UK, becoming the most successful Groups of all time on the Official Charts."SOS" has been recorded and performed in concert by several prominent artists, including John Frusciante, Peter Cetera, Chris deBurgh, Cher, Portishead, Fozzy, and Canadian rock group Headstones And Erasure Ray Davies of The Kinks said that he was taken with the song after seeing the group perform it on the BBC television show Seaside Special. Pete Townshend ( The WHO ) said the song had "a great sound". American singer-songwriter and former Czars frontman John Grant has called "SOS" "one of the greatest pieces of music ever made", adding that Agnetha Fältskog's "perfect" lyrical interpretation and emotional delivery is "a beautiful thing". British conductor and producer Charles Hazlewood called the song's "supersonic" transition from an acoustic D-minor key to an electric rock motif "absolutely genius". Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock has claimed to have been inspired to write the main riff of Pretty Vacant after hearing "SOS" on a jukebox. By The Way take å Look At This ! ABBA LIVE // Does Your Mother Know / Hole In Your Soul - ABBA: Live At Wembley Arena In London ua-cam.com/video/NfZBuCHF38s/v-deo.html and " Summer Night City " Live 1979 " - ABBA: Live At Wembley Arena ua-cam.com/video/KpzjOM6jKtw/v-deo.html And From Their Live Tour In 1976 some links from ABBA `s Prefomance in Australia ; ABBA (Live Sydney) - “Dancing Queen” ua-cam.com/video/DPTUH9dzhoM/v-deo.html - ABBA " He Is Your Brother " HD Live Australia '77 ua-cam.com/video/ASCmKtwzli4/v-deo.html - " Get On The Carousel / I'm A Marionette " [Live 1977] - ABBA: Adelaide, 8th March 1977 The Euro-Australian ABBA Tour ua-cam.com/video/rciA8HZDq00/v-deo.html "
ABBA ; A ( agnetha fältskogh ) B ( björn ulvaeus ) B ( benny andersson ) A ( anni - frid lyngstad ) - ABBA ABBA - ( 1972 och 1983 ) is considered to be one of the largest in music history with over 400 million records sold in (2014 ) but new satisic`s say`s that in some bananrepublics that is maybe 100 million records or more not regristrated AND ABBA`s Manager Stig "Stickan "Andersson was a buisnessman and changing record`sales to stocking`s like oil art and what ever - he`s dead and they say that he is the only one who did know the EXACT number of sales. ABBA - is one of the few artists to have achieved success across ALL the continents of the earth. In the mid -1970s, were A B B A the most successful pop group in the world in all categories. Abba has over 70 singles as No. 1 Worldwide and over 60 albums no 1 "Worldvide. In the UK they had 19 straight top 10 singles, 9 singles and nine albums as no. 1 on the British top list of which eight are in succession (1975, -76, -77, -78, -79, -80, -81, -82). In 2014, the group had sold 400 million records and is thus Sweden's most successful music export of all time. Abba became the first pop group from Continental Europe / Nordic to achieve greater success in the English-speaking world for a long time. ABBA had so MANY HIT`s so they did not " had the time " to tour the Usa more than once - ( and they did`nt want to be the Opening act for any group as their Usa management wanted so they waited for USA until they had a number one hit - And It Came With The No 1 Hit " DANCING QUEEN 1976 - But Usa had to wait until 1979 before ABBA came On Tour - A lot of Tv Commersials Worldvide and Videos make them ( and The Beatles ) pioneers in making Music VIDEO`s before MTV . ABBA music has been around over 40 years, they have released over 100 compilations and sold records in a 100 or more territories and you know that kind of thing (even in small amounts) does add up over time. ABBA is a uniquely universal group, selling or having their music stolen in every conceivable market. ABBA were popular in the heyday in even less traditional markets like Japan, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Philippines, and nowadays in places like China and Korea. We just can’t nail down a total sales numbers.. I guess will never know. - ABBA did 3 Big Live Tours - European Tour 1974-75. - 1977 Touring Europe and Australia, where the group was extremely popular, ("ABBA Mania") and was documented in the feature film ABBA - The Movie, which received a bio premiere in December 1977. During the first half of 1978, the group did a promotional tour in the United States, where the single "Take a Chance on Me" climbed to third place. ABBA has sent 20 songs onto the Hot 100 (all between 1974 and 1982), earning four top 10 s among 14 top 40 hits. ... ABBA has also landed 13 albums on the Billboard 200 (from 1974 to 2011), six of which reached the chart's top 40, led by The Album, which rose to No. 14, the act's best rank, in 1978. - No 1 Hit "Dancing Queen " in 1976 ) - In the fall of 1979 the group toured Europe, USA and Canada. In the spring of 1980, the tour continued to Japan, which would be their last concert tour before the break. In 1980, two singles were released which, before the break, became the group's last one on the UK singles list: "The Winner Takes It All" and "Super Trouper The live album" ABBA Live at Wembley Arena 1979 " ABBA World Tour 1979-80 Live Record "ABBA LIVE at WEMBLEY LONDON 1979 " (On UA-cam in HD Song`s like "Summer Night City " Does Yor Mother Know " Hole in Your Soul " Gimme Gimme Gimme " and many more ABBA: The Tour, later also labelled ABBA in Concert and ABBA: North American and European Tour 1979, was the third and final concert tour by the Swedish pop group, ABBA. Primarily visiting North America, Europe and Asia during 1979-1980, the tour supported the group's sixth studio album, Voulez-Vous. The tour opened in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on September 13, 1979, and closed in Tokyo, Japan on March 27, 1980, having performed 52 shows in 40 cities across 13 countries. As it was the group's final tour before unofficially disbanding in late 1982, it included the largest catalogue of hit songs performed on a tour. Abba was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Swedish Music Hall of Fame in 2014
You NEED to watch the MOVIE "MAMA MIA" starring Meryl Streep, and the 2nd movie (sequel) "MAMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN" THEY ARE GREAT!! If you love ABBA, you SHOULD watch both movies. By the way, both couples were married to each other, but both split, too and still continued as a group.
One song that wasnt really touchd on here and not very successful at the time was 'The Day Before You Came' and is often regarded by many of us die hard fans as one of thier best works. Check it out its great
They were quite experienced musicians with success in Sweden before they formed ABBA. Some more songs to look at... The Name of the Game Money Money Money Knowing Me Knowing You
Great Reaction. Both couples married soon after each other and divorced though stayed friends and colleagues. If you react to "The Winner Takes It All" then that is extremely touching and poignant as it was written by Bjorn about his Divorce and his Ex: Agnetha had to sing it hence her sad look deliberately all thru' the video. The 2 Boys had fantastic Worldwide success with another musical:Chess and now they are back after almost FORTY YEARS with 10 new songs and a 5 YEAR STAGE Show where they will be "Abbatars" and it's a "virtual" show with their own Theatre being built NOW in London for 2022:)
Sweden, Sweden, Sweden, what talents you create! What is it with this little country in the North? Answer: one of their treasures is / has been that they have a natural aptitude for singing and for music in general. It is in their genes. See for example "allsång på Skansen", Stockholm, where they meet and sing together once a week in the summertime. ABBA was one of the very first artists to be known outside of Scandinavia. A big hug from Norway, neighbour of Sweden.
Their videos were produced by Oscar nominated director Lasse Hallstrom. He did the choreography for at least some of those videos. He also directed Abba the Movie.
fun fact: Madonna asked Björn and Benny if she could sample the into of Gimme Gimme Gimme. and so she did in her song Hung up from 2005. and Benny Andersson had a cameo in the Mamma Mia movie. and they perfomed Dancing queen on the gala before the wedding of the swedish king Carl xvi Gustaf and queen Silvia
The now worldwide famous movie director Lasse Hallström got famous making their music videos. He invented the now iconic close-ups on the girls lips from two angles.
Those music video were famous also because ABBA didn’t tour everywhere , or make appearances in far countries like Australia and America where they had big success, so they made music videos to promote their music and singles. This was years before MTV made music videos a thing in the early 80’s, so it was kind of a big thing before it’s time. Those videos(along with the music of course ) definitely helped promote and make new ABBA fans years after they broke up, and probably are just as famous as anything that played on MTV from the 80’s till now.
Their last album, The Visitors, was referred to in that video as a minor success with only the single 'One of Us' regarded as successful. But over the years, most songs in that album have captured the admiration and attention of music lovers of a later generations. And these songs remain very much loved until today. Try react to : 1. Move On - from Abba The Album 2. Visitors - from the Visitors Album 3. Slipping Through My Fingers- from the Visitors Album 4. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room - from the Visitors Album 5. Soldiers 6. Why did it have to be me- Live Australian Tour 1977 7. He's my brother - Live Australian Tour 1977
Heya! The best docos on ABBA to watch are (and are available on youtube) "The joy of ABBA" and also the 7 news spotlight ABBA interview (more a documentary). They both go the deepest, and come from different cool angles.
an interesting thing about their videos is that back in the early 70s music videos were not that common but ABBA made them because agnetha really didn't like traveling especially as they had huge demand in Australia so they would record these videos and send them to the tv stations to play. I would love if you watched Head Over Heals, it's from their 1981 The Visitors album the video is funny. If i'm not mistaken most of their videos were directed by Lasse Hallstrom who become a video director for hollywood movies after abba.
The Winner Takes it All is my favorite , followed by Knowing Me, Knowing You, but I absolutely love each and every song they ever made, including the 3 track released so far from the new reunion album Voyage !
Hello there Tysheen🤪 Once you go down that rabbit hole with ABBA there's no going back.... They also have amazing songs on their albums that were not released as singles, check out "Arrival, ABBA the Album, Voulez- Vous, Super Trouper, and the exceptional The Visitors...and now after a 40yr hiatus their latest album that was released in 2022..... much to the delight of every true ABBA fan "Voyage" . I'm a pensioner now but in my teens I was a big ABBA fan (and still am) I had the privilege of seeing them at Wembley Arena, London in 1979,💥🥰🤪 Love your reaction videos 🤗 🇬🇧🤗❤️ Ps, hope you get to visit old Blighty (the UK) one day🤪
Their early pre ABBA careers were pretty interesting as well. Frida had quite a dramatic childhood, Benny was in Sweden's equivalent to the Beatles, and definitely check out their post ABBA songs (later though!) Here are a few songs pre Dancing Queen that you should check out. My Mama Said, Watch Out, So Long, I've been Waiting For You, SOS, Tropical Loveland, ah so many more... They didn't tour much in America which hindered their record sales back then but their songs are incredibly catchy and clever they were bound to be rediscovered again and again....(they still racked up at least a dozen top twenty singles no small feat) ohh another must listen: Lay All Your Love On Me. (Came out after dancing queen) was a US #1 club chart hit....enjoy!
If people want to know more about ABBA, not sure why they just don’t just do this , watch the many bio videos on UA-cam . I wish they would do a great bio pic about the the ABBA years from 1970 to 1983, with an ending showing their big come back decades later in 2021 with a new album and avatar concert series.
The man who made there videos, was Lasse Hallstrom. Swedish filmproducer. He made The films Gilbert Grape, Chocolat, The Ciderhouse roules etc. You should see them. The name ABBA stands for the first letter in there names. A. Agnetha, B. Björn, B. Benny, A. Anni-Frid.
Hi!! Yes both couples were married and divorced during the group's career. That they managed to still working together is one of the circumstances that makes ABBA really interesting. This is reflected in many of the songs from their last years both musically and lyrically. The Winner Takes It All, Lay All Your Love On Me, When All Is Said And Done, One of Us, Slipping Through My Fingers are gorgeous songs from their two last albums. Their final recording (until 2017) The Day Before You Came (1982) is a sad and mysterious anthem. ❣️
ABBA the movie is a full length movie that was made whilst abba were on tour in Australia. They were HUGE in Australia which flowed on to the UK. Here is a link to a FUN video.....which makes fun of ABBA who were never recognised as a great band until late in their career Abba - The Last Video - UA-cam it was often said they were not commercial enough --but ABBA remained as independent artists , not to be controlled by a record label.
Hi Wonderful Lady,,,,ABBA are back n LONDON this week,,,with the first Three,D rendition of an entire concert ,,,, this is the first time they have been together for YEARS , THEY HAVE QUITE A FEW CHILDREN TOGETHER,,,, PLUS THEY Are Multimillionaires ,,,in SWEDEN,THE ATTITUDE TO DIVORCE IS ALL VERY CIVILISED,,,, AND PEOPLE HAVE A MUCH MORE MATURE WAY OF APPROACHING THIS KIND OF THING
Thanks for reacting. Yeah and about 100 great songs between the big hits. They really did take at least one shot of every genre, even country. And by the end they were way beyond pop. A really good docudrama is "ABBA: When all is said and done PART 1" ----> ua-cam.com/video/IZuBPdpejmE/v-deo.html This link is to a playlist that breaks it down to YT friendly segments. It focus's more on the girls side of it and what they went through. I really like reactors who do what your doing with this. There is a ton on YT about ABBA but the one I linked to jumps in the deepest. Thanks again.
The more ABBA you bring to your channel,the better it gets...both couples were married,both divorced though..I guess the strain of career together became too much. ABBA is my number one band,there is nothing even close to them...they are in a leage of their own...unbeatable quality...
After: Björn and Benny wrote the musical Chess With Tim Rice. Notable songs: Anthem, One night in Bangkok, I know him so well. Their other musical was Kristina based on the books by the Swedish author Wilhelm Moberg. It's about the emigration from Sweden and immigration to the US in the 1850:s. Notable song: You have to be there and The gold turned to sand.
So many more songs from them to discover. Maybe you should react to their "signature breakup songs" Agnetha and Bjorn's The Winner Takes It All and Frida and Benny's When All Is Said And Done.
It’s interesting that when emotions within the band bubble up in lyrics, the joy and heartbreak of the relationship often comes across strongly on the final vinyl. Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ (English spelling since they were predominantly an English band) is another great example.
Yes Agneta and Bjorn were married as were Benny and Ana-Frid. Both couples divorced by the end of the 70s. Listen to the song The Winner Takes it All. That was Bjorn's writing a song about he and Agnetha's divorce. It's a sad song but as beautiful as ever heari g them sing it.
Just seeing this now. Interesting. ABBA was a mega hit group. Only the BEATLES have more hits. Yes they were two couples. Agnetha is the blonde, Ani-Frid (Frida) is the brunette. Benny is the pianist, Bjorn is the guitarist. Interesting fact, Frida's mother was Norwegian during Nazi occupied times and her father a German soldier. The Nazis were trying to creat a master race called the ariyan race. Frida was a product of that program. Her grandmother snuck into Sweden with her to prevent the Germans from taking her and children of German soldiers were treated terribly after they left. So she grew up in Sweden
Growing up in the early to mid seventies,I followed Queen,Led Zeppelin,Sex Pistols,......and ABBA. But with ABBA,you never openly admitted you listened to their music:)) it was very un - cool to like them.
As a Swede I love ABBA, and as you probably know they realest two new songs just a little while ago. In my opinion none of them were good tho, which made me kinda sad :( But still, gotta love ABBA 💛 Great video!
They have way more hits than this really highlighted (around the world they caught on a lot more, but this was more US focussed), as well as great/magical songs that didn't end up as hits as back then you could only choose a few songs from an album as singles to sell for a potential hit. But truly most of their last 5/6 albums were amazing, with their first two of their 8 albums being fun and still having some great songs in there. No bad songs which is crazy for the 100 songs or so released! I reccomend Move on, or a live one: Does your mother know and Hole in your soul live at wembley: ua-cam.com/video/NfZBuCHF38s/v-deo.html
Your smile when you recognise a song is what the abba effect is
Girrrrrrrl. You don’t know how much ABBA influenced music now days. They set the tone for everything you hear now.
I agree
and now we have two new songs, 40 years after their last releases... Class never dies
They don't have the catchy melodic hooks of the old stuff though and that's essential for success. It's understandable as they're all different people now to an extent.
If someone says they don't like ABBA, they are lying.
Lovely Tysheen. ABBA are just fantastic. The best thing is they aren’t celebrity obsessed and just live humble Scandinavian lives.
Amazing how professional they were to keep the band together and to perform while their was so much emotional drama behind the scenes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
We barely understand it today, but ABBA is one of all time best selling band/artists in the world. I don't remember the exact place in list, but there is only huge stars as Elvis Presley, Beatles, Michael Jackson and maybe some more that are not beaten by ABBA. Up to the shift of millenium, ABBA was effort one billion USD for reunite, make one album and a world tour of 100 shows. They rejected the effort.
During their imperial phase, ABBA scored 25 Top 40 hits in the UK, including 19 Top 10s, of which nine went all the way to Number 1 - over the space of nine years.
Here in the UK they were massive from 74-82, nine number ones, many top ten hits-pretty much everything they released went top ten & a load of number one & top ten albums. The 1992 Gold compilation recently notched up a thousand weeks on the UK chart-the first to do so as it has over the last 29 years kept re-entering. Even outstripping much longer released huge albums such as Tubular Bells, Bat Out Of Hell, Thriller etc.
I remember back then when The day before you came didnt make any impact in UK that Abba or Björn were actually disappointed , dont remember if it were tv or newspapers - For me as yuong man we knew they were quitting and done adults +35 music for the last 3 years or parents
ABBA were an unusual Eurovision winner, in that they broke with tradition and sang their song in English rather than their native language. That may well have helped them win the contest and it certainly helped them storm the British pop charts. Released on March 12 in the UK, “Waterloo” entered the bestsellers on April 20. Two weeks later, on May 4, it rose to No.1, where it stayed for two weeks. Britain’s love affair with the group was underway.
A truly international hit
Nor was it just in the UK that ABBA stormed the charts. The song topped the bestsellers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, West Germany, Ireland, Norway, South Africa, and Switzerland. It also reached the Top 3 in Austria, France, the Netherlands, and Spain, and hit No.6 in America.
50 hit singles worldwide and 400 million records sold, ABBA has become the 3rd biggest selling group in history. Now 40 years later they have the #1 album in the world, Voyager.
The greatest pop group ever AND they just released a new album after 40 years called Voyage. With an incredible show with ABBATARS performing their songs.
Check out “ I still have faith in you”
You can see the ABBATARS in the end of that clip.
48 years ago today, ABBA The Swedish Supergroup began their reign on the Official Charts as Waterloo became their first UK Number 1 single. The Swedish quartet's first UK chart entry made its way to the top of the Official Singles Chart in its third week, 22 days after winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.ABBA have scored 9 No. 1 singles and 10 No. 1 albums in the UK, becoming the most successful Groups of all time on the Official Charts."SOS" has been recorded and performed in concert by several prominent artists, including John Frusciante, Peter Cetera, Chris deBurgh, Cher, Portishead, Fozzy, and Canadian rock group Headstones And Erasure
Ray Davies of The Kinks said that he was taken with the song after seeing the group perform it on the BBC television show Seaside Special. Pete Townshend ( The WHO ) said the song had "a great sound".
American singer-songwriter and former Czars frontman John Grant has called "SOS" "one of the greatest pieces of music ever made", adding that Agnetha Fältskog's "perfect" lyrical interpretation and emotional delivery is "a beautiful thing". British conductor and producer Charles Hazlewood called the song's "supersonic" transition from an acoustic D-minor key to an electric rock motif "absolutely genius".
Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock has claimed to have been inspired to write the main riff of Pretty Vacant after hearing "SOS" on a jukebox. By The Way take å Look At This ! ABBA LIVE // Does Your Mother Know / Hole In Your Soul - ABBA: Live At Wembley Arena In London ua-cam.com/video/NfZBuCHF38s/v-deo.html and " Summer Night City " Live 1979 " - ABBA: Live At Wembley Arena ua-cam.com/video/KpzjOM6jKtw/v-deo.html And From Their Live Tour In 1976 some links from ABBA `s Prefomance in Australia ; ABBA (Live Sydney) - “Dancing Queen” ua-cam.com/video/DPTUH9dzhoM/v-deo.html - ABBA " He Is Your Brother " HD Live Australia '77 ua-cam.com/video/ASCmKtwzli4/v-deo.html - " Get On The Carousel / I'm A Marionette " [Live 1977] - ABBA: Adelaide, 8th March 1977 The Euro-Australian ABBA Tour ua-cam.com/video/rciA8HZDq00/v-deo.html "
ABBA ; A ( agnetha fältskogh ) B ( björn ulvaeus ) B ( benny andersson ) A ( anni - frid lyngstad ) - ABBA
ABBA - ( 1972 och 1983 ) is considered to be one of the largest in music history with over 400 million records sold in (2014 ) but new satisic`s say`s that in some bananrepublics that is maybe 100 million records or more not regristrated AND ABBA`s Manager Stig "Stickan "Andersson was a buisnessman and changing record`sales to stocking`s like oil art and what ever - he`s dead and they say that he is the only one who did know the EXACT number of sales.
ABBA - is one of the few artists to have achieved success across ALL the continents of the earth.
In the mid -1970s, were A B B A the most successful pop group in the world in all categories.
Abba has over 70 singles as No. 1 Worldwide and over 60 albums no 1 "Worldvide. In the UK they had 19 straight top 10 singles, 9 singles and nine albums as no. 1 on the British top list of which eight are in succession (1975, -76, -77, -78, -79, -80, -81, -82). In 2014, the group had sold 400 million records and is thus Sweden's most successful music export of all time.
Abba became the first pop group from Continental Europe / Nordic to achieve greater success in the English-speaking world for a long time. ABBA had so MANY HIT`s so they did not " had the time " to tour the Usa more than once - ( and they did`nt want to be the Opening act for any group as their Usa management wanted so they waited for USA until they had a number one hit - And It Came With The No 1 Hit " DANCING QUEEN 1976 - But Usa had to wait until 1979 before ABBA came On Tour - A lot of Tv Commersials Worldvide and Videos make them ( and The Beatles ) pioneers in making Music VIDEO`s before MTV .
ABBA music has been around over 40 years, they have released over 100 compilations and sold records in a 100 or more territories and you know that kind of thing (even in small amounts) does add up over time. ABBA is a uniquely universal group, selling or having their music stolen in every conceivable market. ABBA were popular in the heyday in even less traditional markets like Japan, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Philippines, and nowadays in places like China and Korea. We just can’t nail down a total sales numbers.. I guess will never know.
- ABBA did 3 Big Live Tours - European Tour 1974-75. - 1977 Touring Europe and Australia, where the group was extremely popular, ("ABBA Mania") and was documented in the feature film ABBA - The Movie, which received a bio premiere in December 1977. During the first half of 1978, the group did a promotional tour in the United States, where the single "Take a Chance on Me" climbed to third place.
ABBA has sent 20 songs onto the Hot 100 (all between 1974 and 1982), earning four top 10 s among 14 top 40 hits. ... ABBA has also landed 13 albums on the Billboard 200 (from 1974 to 2011), six of which reached the chart's top 40, led by The Album, which rose to No. 14, the act's best rank, in 1978. - No 1 Hit "Dancing Queen " in 1976 ) -
In the fall of 1979 the group toured Europe, USA and Canada. In the spring of 1980, the tour continued to Japan, which would be their last concert tour before the break. In 1980, two singles were released which, before the break, became the group's last one on the UK singles list: "The Winner Takes It All" and "Super Trouper The live album" ABBA Live at Wembley Arena 1979 "
ABBA World Tour 1979-80 Live Record "ABBA LIVE at WEMBLEY LONDON 1979 " (On UA-cam in HD Song`s like "Summer Night City " Does Yor Mother Know " Hole in Your Soul " Gimme Gimme Gimme " and many more
ABBA: The Tour, later also labelled ABBA in Concert and ABBA: North American and European Tour 1979, was the third and final concert tour by the Swedish pop group, ABBA. Primarily visiting North America, Europe and Asia during 1979-1980, the tour supported the group's sixth studio album, Voulez-Vous.
The tour opened in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on September 13, 1979, and closed in Tokyo, Japan on March 27, 1980, having performed 52 shows in 40 cities across 13 countries. As it was the group's final tour before unofficially disbanding in late 1982, it included the largest catalogue of hit songs performed on a tour.
Abba was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Swedish Music Hall of Fame in 2014
You NEED to watch the MOVIE "MAMA MIA" starring Meryl Streep, and the 2nd movie (sequel) "MAMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN" THEY ARE GREAT!! If you love ABBA, you SHOULD watch both movies. By the way, both couples were married to each other, but both split, too and still continued as a group.
and now they have returned
what a time
incredible
Their new album Will go straight to number one,thats a no brainer.......
One song that wasnt really touchd on here and not very successful at the time was 'The Day Before You Came' and is often regarded by many of us die hard fans as one of thier best works. Check it out its great
I also love ;Slipping through my fingers
That one song is my absolute favorite from ABBA. So atmospheric.
They were quite experienced musicians with success in Sweden before they formed ABBA. Some more songs to look at...
The Name of the Game
Money Money Money
Knowing Me Knowing You
Great Reaction. Both couples married soon after each other and divorced though stayed friends and colleagues. If you react to "The Winner Takes It All" then that is extremely touching and poignant as it was written by Bjorn about his Divorce and his Ex: Agnetha had to sing it hence her sad look deliberately all thru' the video. The 2 Boys had fantastic Worldwide success with another musical:Chess and now they are back after almost FORTY YEARS with 10 new songs and a 5 YEAR STAGE Show where they will be "Abbatars" and it's a "virtual" show with their own Theatre being built NOW in London for 2022:)
Sweden, Sweden, Sweden, what talents you create! What is it with this little country in the North? Answer: one of their treasures is / has been that they have a natural aptitude for singing and for music in general. It is in their genes. See for example "allsång på Skansen", Stockholm, where they meet and sing together once a week in the summertime. ABBA was one of the very first artists to be known outside of Scandinavia. A big hug from Norway, neighbour of Sweden.
Their videos were produced by Oscar nominated director Lasse Hallstrom. He did the choreography for at least some of those videos. He also directed Abba the Movie.
fun fact: Madonna asked Björn and Benny if she could sample the into of Gimme Gimme Gimme. and so she did in her song Hung up from 2005. and Benny Andersson had a cameo in the Mamma Mia movie. and they perfomed Dancing queen on the gala before the wedding of the swedish king Carl xvi Gustaf and queen Silvia
The now worldwide famous movie director Lasse Hallström got famous making their music videos. He invented the now iconic close-ups on the girls lips from two angles.
Wow.
Those music video were famous also because ABBA didn’t tour everywhere , or make appearances in far countries like Australia and America where they had big success, so they made music videos to promote their music and singles. This was years before MTV made music videos a thing in the early 80’s, so it was kind of a big thing before it’s time. Those videos(along with the music of course ) definitely helped promote and make new ABBA fans years after they broke up, and probably are just as famous as anything that played on MTV from the 80’s till now.
Their last album, The Visitors, was referred to in that video as a minor success with only the single 'One of Us' regarded as successful.
But over the years, most songs in that album have captured the admiration and attention of music lovers of a later generations. And these songs remain very much loved until today.
Try react to :
1. Move On - from Abba The Album
2. Visitors - from the Visitors Album
3. Slipping Through My Fingers- from the Visitors Album
4. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room - from the Visitors Album
5. Soldiers
6. Why did it have to be me- Live Australian Tour 1977
7. He's my brother - Live Australian Tour 1977
about the third in your list:
"Slipping through my fingers"
She did it before
live in 'Dick Cavett meet ABBA'
So true. The Visitors is a masterpiece.
Heya! The best docos on ABBA to watch are (and are available on youtube) "The joy of ABBA" and also the 7 news spotlight ABBA interview (more a documentary). They both go the deepest, and come from different cool angles.
an interesting thing about their videos is that back in the early 70s music videos were not that common but ABBA made them because agnetha really didn't like traveling especially as they had huge demand in Australia so they would record these videos and send them to the tv stations to play. I would love if you watched Head Over Heals, it's from their 1981 The Visitors album the video is funny. If i'm not mistaken most of their videos were directed by Lasse Hallstrom who become a video director for hollywood movies after abba.
ABBA reunited to record a new album Voyage and I believe are going on tour this year
To me, ABBA is greater than the Beatles.
ABBA is great but I wouldn't go that far. lol
@@randyventresca4152 I would. The Beatles are not as popular as ABBA especially outside the anglosphere
The Winner Takes it All is my favorite , followed by Knowing Me, Knowing You, but I absolutely love each and every song they ever made, including the 3 track released so far from the new reunion album Voyage !
Hello there Tysheen🤪
Once you go down that rabbit hole with ABBA there's no going back....
They also have amazing songs on their albums that were not released as singles, check out "Arrival, ABBA the Album, Voulez- Vous, Super Trouper, and the exceptional The Visitors...and now after a 40yr hiatus their latest album that was released in 2022..... much to the delight of every true ABBA fan "Voyage" .
I'm a pensioner now but in my teens I was a big ABBA fan (and still am) I had the privilege of seeing them at Wembley Arena, London in 1979,💥🥰🤪
Love your reaction videos 🤗
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Ps, hope you get to visit old Blighty (the UK) one day🤪
Theres an indepth BBC documentary that tells the complete story on the tube,check it out,fortunately I've live through it all from the beginning.....
Their early pre ABBA careers were pretty interesting as well. Frida had quite a dramatic childhood, Benny was in Sweden's equivalent to the Beatles, and definitely check out their post ABBA songs (later though!) Here are a few songs pre Dancing Queen that you should check out. My Mama Said, Watch Out, So Long, I've been Waiting For You, SOS, Tropical Loveland, ah so many more... They didn't tour much in America which hindered their record sales back then but their songs are incredibly catchy and clever they were bound to be rediscovered again and again....(they still racked up at least a dozen top twenty singles no small feat) ohh another must listen: Lay All Your Love On Me. (Came out after dancing queen) was a US #1 club chart hit....enjoy!
**** BE SURE TO check out ABBA's new releases. I Still Have Faith in You //and// Don't Shut Me Down!
If people want to know more about ABBA, not sure why they just don’t just do this , watch the many bio videos on UA-cam . I wish they would do a great bio pic about the the ABBA years from 1970 to 1983, with an ending showing their big come back decades later in 2021 with a new album and avatar concert series.
The man who made there videos, was Lasse Hallstrom. Swedish filmproducer. He made The films Gilbert Grape, Chocolat, The Ciderhouse roules etc. You should see them.
The name ABBA stands for the first letter in there names. A. Agnetha, B. Björn, B. Benny, A. Anni-Frid.
Hi!! Yes both couples were married and divorced during the group's career. That they managed to still working together is one of the circumstances that makes ABBA really interesting. This is reflected in many of the songs from their last years both musically and lyrically. The Winner Takes It All, Lay All Your Love On Me, When All Is Said And Done, One of Us, Slipping Through My Fingers are gorgeous songs from their two last albums. Their final recording (until 2017) The Day Before You Came (1982) is a sad and mysterious anthem. ❣️
ABBA the movie is a full length movie that was made whilst abba were on tour in Australia. They were HUGE in Australia which flowed on to the UK. Here is a link to a FUN video.....which makes fun of ABBA who were never recognised as a great band until late in their career
Abba - The Last Video - UA-cam it was often said they were not commercial enough --but ABBA remained as independent artists , not to be controlled by a record label.
Hi Wonderful Lady,,,,ABBA are back n LONDON this week,,,with the first Three,D rendition of an entire concert ,,,, this is the first time they have been together for YEARS ,
THEY HAVE QUITE A FEW CHILDREN TOGETHER,,,, PLUS THEY Are Multimillionaires ,,,in SWEDEN,THE ATTITUDE TO DIVORCE IS ALL VERY CIVILISED,,,, AND PEOPLE HAVE A MUCH MORE MATURE WAY OF APPROACHING THIS KIND OF THING
Thanks for reacting. Yeah and about 100 great songs between the big hits. They really did take at least one shot of every genre, even country. And by the end they were way beyond pop. A really good docudrama is "ABBA: When all is said and done PART 1" ----> ua-cam.com/video/IZuBPdpejmE/v-deo.html This link is to a playlist that breaks it down to YT friendly segments. It focus's more on the girls side of it and what they went through. I really like reactors who do what your doing with this. There is a ton on YT about ABBA but the one I linked to jumps in the deepest. Thanks again.
The more ABBA you bring to your channel,the better it gets...both couples were married,both divorced though..I guess the strain of career together became too much. ABBA is my number one band,there is nothing even close to them...they are in a leage of their own...unbeatable quality...
My personal favourites: Take a Chance on Me, The Winner Takes It All, Chiquitita, S.O.S. and Under Attack.
After: Björn and Benny wrote the musical Chess With Tim Rice. Notable songs: Anthem, One night in Bangkok, I know him so well. Their other musical was Kristina based on the books by the Swedish author Wilhelm Moberg. It's about the emigration from Sweden and immigration to the US in the 1850:s. Notable song: You have to be there and The gold turned to sand.
ABBA pretty much invented the music clip.
So many more songs from them to discover. Maybe you should react to their "signature breakup songs" Agnetha and Bjorn's The Winner Takes It All and Frida and Benny's When All Is Said And Done.
It’s interesting that when emotions within the band bubble up in lyrics, the joy and heartbreak of the relationship often comes across strongly on the final vinyl. Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ (English spelling since they were predominantly an English band) is another great example.
Yes Agneta and Bjorn were married as were Benny and Ana-Frid. Both couples divorced by the end of the 70s. Listen to the song The Winner Takes it All. That was Bjorn's writing a song about he and Agnetha's divorce. It's a sad song but as beautiful as ever heari g them sing it.
Dancing Queen with ABBA, was Queen Elisabeth II favorite song.
Just seeing this now. Interesting. ABBA was a mega hit group. Only the BEATLES have more hits. Yes they were two couples. Agnetha is the blonde, Ani-Frid (Frida) is the brunette. Benny is the pianist, Bjorn is the guitarist. Interesting fact, Frida's mother was Norwegian during Nazi occupied times and her father a German soldier. The Nazis were trying to creat a master race called the ariyan race. Frida was a product of that program. Her grandmother snuck into Sweden with her to prevent the Germans from taking her and children of German soldiers were treated terribly after they left. So she grew up in Sweden
Growing up in the early to mid seventies,I followed Queen,Led Zeppelin,Sex Pistols,......and ABBA.
But with ABBA,you never openly admitted you listened to their music:)) it was very un - cool to like them.
They are back 2021
Do a react to "if it wasn't for the night" by abba
Try: Lay All Your Love On Me, The Winner Takes It All, The Name Of The Game, Eagle, Angele Eyes
i had to pause the video several times to make sure my laptop wasn't burning up
gimme gimme gimme ( a man after midnight ) live
Love it 😍
As a Swede I love ABBA, and as you probably know they realest two new songs just a little while ago. In my opinion none of them were good tho, which made me kinda sad :( But still, gotta love ABBA 💛
Great video!
How can you say that,,,people are crying because The songs are MASTERPICES specially Dont shut me down and I still have faith in you,,,?????
Please - Move that Fan! I doesn't need no microphone to be heard over the Music.
They have way more hits than this really highlighted (around the world they caught on a lot more, but this was more US focussed), as well as great/magical songs that didn't end up as hits as back then you could only choose a few songs from an album as singles to sell for a potential hit. But truly most of their last 5/6 albums were amazing, with their first two of their 8 albums being fun and still having some great songs in there. No bad songs which is crazy for the 100 songs or so released!
I reccomend Move on, or a live one: Does your mother know and Hole in your soul live at wembley: ua-cam.com/video/NfZBuCHF38s/v-deo.html
Frida and Benny also married the same year agnetha and Bjorn divorced and then divorced 3 years later
If wanting to see about child hood watch story of abba
Check out Donny Osmond - Who (Official Video)
They were two married couples and they split up.
React to ABBAs new songs
Agnetha faltskog had good solo career look up solo work when young
Think watchMojo miss the 5th member...The sound technician Mikael B Tretow, without him they wouldn't sound as they do...
their last... until earlier this month...
What they have a history . Should they even have one
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That is a very basic history - so much more to the ABBA story than they show here of course.
Chiquitita
Am I the first 😀