ABBA Greatest Hits LP

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The Swedish Radio hit parade was based on votes, not single sales. The group's first two singles, " People Need Love" and " He Is Your Brother", were hits on this Tio i Topp chart. In all, ABBA had nine songs in this chart, and the six that went as high as number three are included on the album. Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally released in Scandinavia on 17 November 1975 [4] and in other parts of the world in 1976, notably the UK on 10 April, and on 18 September in the US and Canada. The 1976 version of the album included the band's most recent single " Fernando". Top Albums 1977" (PDF). Music Week. 24 December 1977. p.14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2021 . Retrieved 30 November 2021– via worldradiohistory.com. Glen Baker (8 November 1979). "ABBA The World - Taiwan". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved 6 November 2020. Malta - a small market with large potential" (PDF). Music Week. 16 July 1977. p.14 . Retrieved 15 February 2022.

Svensktoppen was a vote-based radio chart show for Swedish-language songs. ABBA had three number ones in this chart ("Ring Ring", "Waterloo", "Honey Honey") and a number 6 ("Åh, Vilka Tider"). Polar issued 'official' Swedish versions of " Bang-A-Boomerang" and "Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)" by Svenne & Lotta, both reached number 2 in this chart. Svenne & Lotta had hits with these songs in several markets. Other acts, including both Agnetha and Frida as solo performers, made Swedish-language versions of other ABBA songs; only "So Long" had not been a hit on the Svensktoppen chart, though "So Long" had been a hit on the Danish equivalent Dansktoppen. Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally released in Scandinavia on 17 November 1975 and in other parts of the world in 1976, notably the UK on 10 April, and on 18 September in the US and Canada. The 1976 version of the album contained the brand new single "Fernando". a b Murrells, Joseph. Million selling records from the 1900s to the 1980s: an illustrated directory. Arco Pub. p.393. ISBN 0668064595. Global sales were well over 6,000,000 ... Australian sales of this albums were over 900,000

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From the Music Capitols of the World – Athens" (PDF). Billboard. 18 November 1978. p.73 . Retrieved 25 January 2022– via World Radio History. Israeli Awards". Billboard. 18 August 1982. p. 58 . Retrieved 12 December 2019. israel gold 20,000 billboard. a b Myers, Justin (12 July 2016). "The greatest of the greatest: the UK's official Top 10 biggest hits collections revealed". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 25 July 2016. a b "ABBA fenomen ili fenomenalna ABBA". Džuboks. No.33. April 1977. p.5 . Retrieved 6 November 2020– via Popboks. a b c Palm, Carl Magnus (2006). Greatest Hits (30th Anniversary Edition) (booklet). ABBA. Polar Music. 987 715-6.

a b "American album certifications – Abba – Greatest Hits". Recording Industry Association of America. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Conciseed.). United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. p.31. ISBN 978-1-84609-856-7. Polar's version of Greatest Hits reached number one in Sweden and in Norway, [6] [7] but lost out in sales over much of the rest of Europe and in Australia and New Zealand to the already released rival compilations. However, it had no competition in the UK and in North America, and the UK version of the album was released in April 1976. In the five-month period between the releases of the Scandinavian and UK versions of Greatest Hits, ABBA had achieved their second consecutive (and third overall) UK number-one single with "Fernando", and this song was added to the UK version of the album, as well as to a reissued version in Norway and Denmark. The release of Greatest Hits coincided with the start of ABBA's huge popularity in the UK during the latter half of the 1970s, becoming the first of eight consecutive number-one albums for the group. It spent eleven non-consecutive weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart and went on to become the best-selling album of 1976 [8] and the second best-selling album of the 1970s. [9] As of July 2016 it is the 46th best-selling album of all time in the UK, [10] with sales of over 2.6 million. [11] In my opinion, ABBA is the best Swedish pop band of all time and their songs are some of the best from the 70s pop era. This particular album collects their best songs from 1970-75 and is an overall amazing album. The amount of great hits on this album alone makes it worth the cost of buying it, my personal favourites are "Honey, Honey", "Waterloo" and "SOS". The reason I don't give this album a 9 is because of the film Mamma Mia, even though it bought the band more fame than they already had, it also makes it so that when you play a song by ABBA, it is more often than not someone will say "oh, thats the song from Mamma Mia" and won't actually know the band. Other than this, this album's music evokes a sense of nostalgia for many people as a lot of people's parent's listened to it or you may remember it from your childhood. And this is the reason that this album is the best ABBA album to get if you are just getting started, it represents the best of ABBA's early years and is a must for any record collection.Palm, Carl Magnus (2014). Abba: Bright Lights, Dark Shadows (3rded.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-78305-359-9. A few more songs had been issued as singles somewhere in the world, with I've Been Waiting For You reaching #49 in Australia and Love Isn't Easy (But it Sure Is Hard Enough) charting at #21 in Denmark. [ citation needed] Copsey, Rob (4 July 2016). "The UK's 60 official biggest selling albums of all time revealed". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 25 July 2016. a b "Top 50 Albums of 1976" (PDF). Music Week. 25 December 1976. p.14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2021 . Retrieved 30 November 2021– via worldradiohistory.com.