Gold [VINYL]

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Austria Top40 Longplay 2020". Ö3 Austria Top 40. 8 November 2019. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020 . Retrieved 31 December 2020. a b Keith Caulfield (April 21, 2017). "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Twenty One Pilots' 'Blurryface' Hits 100th Consecutive Week on List". Billboard . Retrieved April 21, 2017.

A 3 CD edition that includes the original album (disc 1), the More Gold: More Hits album (disc 2) and the "Golden B-sides" (disc 3), containing 20 B-sides. Shortly after the release of Gold: Greatest Hits, a Spanish version of the album, titled Oro: Grandes Exitos was issued, followed later by Mas Oro: Mas Grandes Exitos. Le cifre degli album più venduti nel 2008" (in Italian). Musica e Dischi. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012 . Retrieved 29 June 2022. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2010 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 1 May 2020. ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Albums 1992". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018.Gold: Greatest Hits was well received by the music-buying public, and went on to be one of the best-selling albums of all time. It has been re-released in various "special" or "remastered" releases: Goofy cover bands like Australian outfit Björn Again built on this enthusiasm for ABBA’s music and became genuine sensations at clubs around the world, dialing up the kitsch with even more outlandish attire and between-song banter delivered in Swedish accents. And if the commercial potential of ABBA’s music wasn’t already evident, it became impossible to ignore in mid-1992 when Erasure’s cover EP Abba-esque topped the charts across the UK and continental Europe. With pure sales of 5.61 million copies, [2] Gold: Greatest Hits is the second-highest selling album of all time in the United Kingdom, [3] after Queen's Greatest Hits. [4] In August, 2019, Gold: Greatest Hits became the longest-running top 100 album of all time, spending 900 weeks on the UK Albums Chart. The album spent 61 (non-consecutive) weeks in the top 10 and topped the British chart 5 times, most recently for two weeks in 2008 following release of the motion picture Mamma Mia!. [5] As of July 2021, "Gold" became the first album to reach 1000 weeks on the Official Charts in United Kingdom with pure sales of 5.61 million copies sold in United Kingdom. [2] In November 2021, it was awarded 20× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting six millions album-equivalent unit in the UK. [6]

Little more than a decade separated Gold’s release from the unceremonious end of the band’s recording career. After a delirious rise to global superstardom in the second half of the ’70s, ABBA was finally starting to lose steam. Its two constituent couples—Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog, and Benny Andersson and Frida Lyngstad—were either separated or divorced by the release of their final album, The Visitors, in 1981. And while all four members continued working together with an impressive level of professionalism, the fact remained that Ulvaeus and Andersson were writing music and lyrics, including post-breakup ballads and wounded domestic dramas, for their ex-wives to sing. album- és válogatáslemez-lista – chart-pozíció alapján – 2008" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Top Stranih – Tjedan 3. 2010"[Top Foreign – Week 3, 2010]. Top of the Shops (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 12 January 2016 . Retrieved 4 October 2012. Year-End Sales Charts" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.9, no.51/52. 19 December 1992. p.17. OCLC 29800226 . Retrieved 12 December 2018– via American Radio History. Ainsley, Helen (19 November 2021). "Taylor Swift secures eighth UK Number 1 album with Red (Taylor's Version)". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 20 November 2021.Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on 12 December 2003 . Retrieved 26 March 2022. Griffiths, George (4 January 2022). "The Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2021". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Najpopularniejsze albumy i single 2019 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 28 January 2020.

Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts – 1992" (in German). Offizielle Deutsche Charts . Retrieved 12 December 2018.

In 2002, Gold: Greatest Hits was released in mainland Europe (though not in the UK) with a bonus second disc. As the division of labor between Andersson and Ulvaeus became clearer later in the band’s discography—the former handled most of the music, the latter wrote the bulk of the lyrics—the divide between subject matter and sound became even more pronounced. The tumult of the band’s personal lives began to subtly leak into their art: “Knowing Me, Knowing You” and “The Winner Takes It All” are crushing glimpses at marriages in disrepair, sung by adults who know they can’t help but carry on with their lives. Relatively silly cuts like future booty-call anthem “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” are marked by quiet urgency: “Half-past 12/And I’m watchin’ the late show in my flat all alone/How I hate to spend the evening on my own,” Faltskog moans. Even “Dancing Queen,” the band’s most purely joyous moment, can’t fully give itself over to pleasure. It’s a celebration of impermanence. You may be young and sweet now, but you won’t be 17 forever. Certificaciones" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Type ABBA in the box under the ARTISTA column headingand Gold / Greatest Hits in the box under the TÍTULO column heading.

Rare misses aside, hearing Faltskog and Lyngstad’s impeccable voices weave through a battalion’s worth of riffs, bells, and whistles is an indefatigable source of ecstasy. Listening to “S.O.S.” or “Dancing Queen” or “Super Trouper” for the first time can feel like hearing “ Good Vibrations” or “ Born to Run” in the same fashion: Your pleasure centers are overwhelmed until they blow up like the Grinch’s tiny heart, expanding beyond their old size and becoming something new.Schweizer Hitparade: Edelmetall (ABBA)". Schweizer Hitparade. Archived from the original on 2013-12-12 . Retrieved 2014-04-11. Bundesverband Musikindustrie: Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (ABBA)". Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 2014-04-11.