ABBA Greatest Hits LP

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Despite the the heavy vinyl quality and quite replay experience, this remaster sounds flat and lifeless. ABBA had won the Eurovision Song Contest in April 1974 with the song " Waterloo", which went on to be a major hit across Europe and in Australia and New Zealand. Greatest Hits was released in the US and in Canada in September 1976, but sales of the record did not peak until April 1977, when the song " Dancing Queen" reached number one in both countries.

Even Rolling Stone, often one of ABBA's harshest critics in the US, declared of the album, "Anyone who could listen to this record five times and not wind up humming half the songs is an android". To counteract the possibility of import sales from these records in Scandinavia, ABBA's record label Polar Music rush-released their own version of Greatest Hits. 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.In the UK, North America and some other territories, the cover features a photograph taken by Bengt H. The 1992 audio release includes the US promo edit of "The Name Of The Game" and the 1992 edit of "Voulez-Vous" ‎‎– later releases include the full versions. The British/American version of the album sleeve appears in the popular 2015 science-fiction film The Martian, when the husband of the disco-loving ship commander Melissa Lewis reveals on a video link that he has found an original vinyl copy of the album.

The group's first two singles, " People Need Love" and " He Is Your Brother", were hits on this Tio i Topp chart. Dancing Queen" was not included on Greatest Hits, but it was the lead single from the new studio album Arrival and it had generated interest in ABBA's back catalogue. In all, ABBA had nine songs in this chart, and the six that went as high as number three are included on the album.The painting on the original Scandinavian release was by artist Hans Arnold and had originally been awarded as a prize by Swedish magazine VeckoRevyn to celebrate ABBA being voted "Artists of the Year".

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. This meant that the success of Greatest Hits was largely confined to Scandinavia and the UK, although the size of the latter market and the scale of its success there has ensured that Greatest Hits is one of ABBA's best-selling albums worldwide. 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. 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. A true rich vinyl record has to be engineered and recorded from the tapes, and could be also re-mastered from the source targeting even better audiophile experience.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. For releases that combine 'Gold (Greatest Hits)' with the follow-up ' More ABBA Gold (More ABBA Hits)' please see ' Forever Gold'. That's a trick ending most of the time with a lifeless flat record much worse than the original digitally re-mastered CD-version. 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. Waterloo", " SOS", " Mamma Mia" and (later) " Fernando" were top 10 hits in the UK and several other countries, though only the first of these was a top 10 hit in the US.