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Revision as of 20:22, 16 November 2009

ABBA discography
ABBA at the 2008 premiere of Mamma Mia!
Studio albums8
Live albums1
Compilation albums7
Video albums4
Music videos33
Singles73
Additional compilations20
Spanish compilations2
Box set3
DVD6

The discography of Swedish pop music group ABBA consists of eight studio albums, one live album, seven compilation albums, three box sets, four video albums, seventy-three singles, and thirty-three music videos. This list does not include solo material performed by individual members.

ABBA's biggest hit singles worldwide are "Dancing Queen" and "Fernando", with Arrival being their biggest hit studio album.

In April 2006, Universal Music Group announced that the group's recordings have sold an estimated 370 million units worldwide. [1] [2] The compilation album ABBA Gold (1992) has become one of the most popular albums worldwide, with sales of over 28 million copies.[3]

ABBA consists of lead singers Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (better known as Frida) and songwriting/producing backing singers and instrumentalists Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.

Albums

Studio albums

Date Album Peak chart positions
SWE UK AUS NOR JPN NL US AT DE
March 26, 1973 Ring Ring 2 — 10 10 — — — — —
March 4, 1974 Waterloo 1 28 18 1 — — 145 — 6
April 21, 1975 ABBA 1 13 1 1 — 3 174 — 31
October 11, 1976 Arrival 1 1 1 1 3 1 20 12 1
December 12, 1977 The Album 1 1 4 1 9 1 14 2 2
April 23, 1979 Voulez-Vous 1 1 5 1 1 2 19 2 1
November 3, 1980 Super Trouper 1 1 5 1 8 1 17 3 1
November 30, 1981 The Visitors 1 1 22 1 12 1 29 3 1

Live albums

Date Album
August 18, 1986 ABBA Live

Compilation albums

Date Album Peak chart positions
UK US NL DE FR AU NZ JP NO SE AT
November 17, 1975 Greatest Hits 1 48 — 2 9 — — — 1 1 —
October 29, 1979 Greatest Hits Vol. 2 1 46 4 6 5 20 3 2 25 20 2
November 8, 1982 The Singles: The First Ten Years 1 62 4 5 6 18 5 — 33 19 —
September 21, 1992 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits 1 63 2 1 1 1 3 12 1 1 1
May 24, 1993 More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits 13 — 10 9 10 38 — — 16 3 7
November 2, 2001 The Definitive Collection 17 186 39 14 12 10 9 — 8 26 38
November 20, 2006 Number Ones 15 — 47 24 — 36 1 — 25 20 22

Spanish compilations

Date Album
June 23, 1980 Gracias Por La Música
September 24, 1993 ABBA Oro: Grandes Éxitos

Box sets

Date Album
October 31, 1994 Thank You for the Music
November 7, 2005 The Complete Studio Recordings
November 11, 2008 The Albums

Additional compilations

Year Album Peak chart positions
UK US NL DE FR AU NZ JP NO SE AT
1976 The Best of ABBA (Australian and New Zealand release) 1 1
The Best of ABBA (European release) 1 1 14 1
ABBA Greatest Hits 24 (Japanese release) 4
The Very Best of ABBA (German release) 11 2
1978 All About ABBA (Japanese release) 68
1980 The Magic of ABBA 42
1981 A Wie ABBA/A Van ABBA (German/Dutch release) 1 1
Very Best of ABBA (Japanese release) 44
1983 I Love ABBA 208 10 12 5
Thank You for the Music (UK release) 17
1988 Absolute ABBA 70
1996 The Music Still Goes On (Australian release) —
1998 Love Stories 51 82 3 24 30 15
1999 25 Jaar Na Waterloo 1
25 Jaar Na Waterloo - Deel 2 7
The Complete Singles Collection 10 11
2001 SOS: The Best of ABBA (Japanese release) 3
2004 The ABBA Story 31 21
2005 18 Hits 15 58 32
2008 The Albums (same as and see also Box sets above) 89 37 61 57 7 4

Singles

Year Single Album Peak chart positions
SWE ARG AUS AT BEL CAN FRA DEU IRL JPN MEX NLD NOR ZAF[4] ESP UK U.S.
Hot 100 AC
1972 "En Karusell" Ring Ring —
"People Need Love" / "Merry-Go-Round" 17 — — —
"He Is Your Brother" 1
1973 "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)" 1
"Ring Ring"1 1 — 92 2 1 82 — — — 5 2 3 — 32
"Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)"
"Nina, Pretty Ballerina" 8 — —
"Rock'n Roll Band" — —
"Another Town, Another Train" — —
1974 "Waterloo" (Swedish version) Waterloo 2
"Waterloo" 3 — 4 2 7 3 1 1 — — 1 1 1 1 1 6
"Honey, Honey" 30 4 12 18 2 — 17 16 27 27
"Hasta Mañana" 16 — 2
"So Long" ABBA 7 — 3 9 64 11 — — — —
1975 "I've Been Waiting for You" 49
"Ring Ring" (re-release) Ring Ring 7
"I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" ABBA 1 4 2 12 14 6 — — 3 2 1 — 38 15 8
"SOS" 1 2 1 9 1 4 — 1 2 2 1 6 15 19
"Bang-A-Boomerang" — 59
"Mamma Mia" — 1 3 1 18 1 1 — 12 2 5 — 1 32 12
1976 "Fernando" Greatest Hits/
Arrival (re-issue) 		2 — 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 — 1 1 2 1 3 1 13 1
"Rock Me" ABBA 4
"Dancing Queen" Arrival 1 — 1 4 1 2 5 1 1 19 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
"Money, Money, Money" — 1 3 1 47 1 1 2 1 1 2 — 3 56 38
"Dum Dum Diddle" — — —
1977 "That's Me" 75
"Knowing Me, Knowing You" 9 2 2 2 9 1 1 1 3 6 1 17 1 14 7
"King Kong Song" Waterloo 4 94
"The Name of the Game" The Album 2 6 12 2 14 12 7 2 — 10 2 3 3 — 1 12 9
1978 "Take a Chance on Me" 12 1 1 3 10 3 1 67 1 2 8 6 — 1 3 9
"One Man, One Woman"
"Eagle"2 82 17 1 36 6 62 7 —
"Thank You for the Music" — 2
"Summer Night City" Greatest Hits Vol. 2 1 13 18 34 6 1 24 10 10 5
1979 "Chiquitita" Voulez-Vous 2 7 4 6 1 17 13 3 1 19 1 1 4 1 1 2 29 15
"Chiquitita" (Spanish version) 1 — — 1 — 5
"Does Your Mother Know" 7 13 1 8 26 10 3 17 3 12 4 19 41
"Estoy Soñando" Gracias Por La Música 4 — 3 15
"Voulez-Vous"3 Voulez-Vous 79 1 43 9 14 3 18 3 9 80 40
"Angeleyes" 39 3 64 37
"As Good as New" 1
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" Greatest Hits Vol. 2 8 2 1 1 3 1 17 2 2 16 — 3
"I Have a Dream" Voulez-Vous 64 1 1 42 4 2 1 3 3 2
Year Single Album Peak chart positions
SWE ARG AUS AT BEL CAN FRA DEU IRL JPN MEX NLD NOR ZAF ESP UK U.S.
Hot 100 AC
1980 "Gracias Por La Música" Gracias Por La Música 4 15
"¡Dame! ¡Dame! ¡Dame!"
"The Winner Takes It All" Super Trouper 2 — 7 3 1 10 5 4 1 33 5 1 3 1 10 1 8 1
"On and On and On" 9 18 52 90
"Andante, Andante"
"The Piper"
"Super Trouper" 11 77 3 1 32 4 1 1 93 3 1 2 8 1 45 14
"Felicidad" 5
"Happy New Year" — —
1981 "Lay All Your Love on Me"4 13 18 26 8 — 7
"One of Us" The Visitors 2 48 3 1 8 1 1 — 1 6 4 7 3 107 33
1982 "When All Is Said and Done" 81 — 27 10
"No Hay A Quien Culpar" —
"Head Over Heels" 8 2 10 19 14 — 45 1 — — 25 —
"The Visitors" 63
"Se Me Está Escapando"
"The Day Before You Came" The Singles 3 48 16 3 38 5 12 — 19 3 5 — — 32 —
1983 "Under Attack" 96 — 2 43 6 11 — — 7 — 26
"Cassandra" — — —
"Thank You for the Music" The Album — 58 17 23 33
1992 "Dancing Queen"5 ABBA Gold 15 28 16 22 24 5 16
"Voulez-Vous"5 64
1994 "Dream World" Thank You for the Music 17
1996 "Put On Your White Sombrero"
1999 "Happy New Year" The Complete Singles Collection 27 — 78 15 20
2001 "SOS"6 SOS: The Best of ABBA — — — 15
2004 "Waterloo"7 Waterloo: 30th Anniversary Collection 33 20
2008 "Happy New Year"8 4[5] 11[6] 77
"Mamma Mia"9 48 56
"Dancing Queen"9 58 82
"Honey, Honey"9 16
Number-one hits 4 1 6 3 16 3 9 11 8 10 2 8 3 9 1 2
Top twenty hits 22 5 19 25 22 8 16 24 23 5 13 26 19 16 12 21 10 12
SWE ARG AUS AT BEL CAN FRA DEU IRL JPN MEX NLD NOR ZAF ESP UK Hot 100 AC
  • — (dash) indicates the song did not chart.
  • a blank box indicates that the song was not released.
  • 1"Ring Ring" was originally credited to "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida" in the Netherlands. Its UK chart entry was the 1974 remix (released following "Waterloo"'s Eurovision and UK chart success), not the 1973 original.
  • 2"Eagle" was released as a double A-side in the Netherlands with "Thank You for the Music".
  • 3"Voulez-Vous" was released as a double A-side in the UK with "Angeleyes". In the United States, "Voulez-Vous" and "Angeleyes" were released on the same single but charted separately.
  • 4"Lay All Your Love on Me" was issued as a 12" single in the U.S., UK and Germany.
  • 5"Dancing Queen" and "Voulez-Vous" were reissues of the original songs to promote the 1992 compilation ABBA Gold.
  • 6"SOS" was reissued as a double A-side single with "Chiquitita" to promote the Japan-only compilation SOS: The Best of ABBA. The song has sold more than 130,000 copies and became the best-selling single of 2001 performed by a Western artist in Japan.
  • 7"Waterloo" was a reissue of the original song to promote the 2004 reissue of Waterloo as a 30th Anniversary Edition.
  • Although it was never a very familiar ABBA track, ABBA's love song "Our Last Summer" from the Super Trouper album became a number-one hit single for 12 weeks in Greece in 1980, with "Me and I" as its B-side.
  • "I Have a Dream" was ABBA's only number-one in Cyprus. The single was massive, and the B-side to the "I Have a Dream" single in Cyprus was "If It Wasn't for the Nights". In 1985, "If It Wasn't for the Nights" was released as a single in Cyprus, but it only reached number 46 on the charts.
  • 8"Happy New Year" peaked at number 25 on the Danish singles chart upon its reissue in 2008.[7]
  • 9"Mamma Mia", "Dancing Queen" and "Honey, Honey" were reissued due to the popuarity of Mamma Mia! The Movie.

Videography

Video albums

Year Title Format
2002 ABBA The Definitive Collection DVD
2003 ABBA Gold DVD
2006 ABBA 16 Hits DVD
2006 ABBA Number Ones DVD

Music videos

Year Title Director
1974 "Waterloo" Lasse Hallström
"Ring Ring"
1975 "Mamma Mia"
"SOS"
"Bang-A-Boomerang"
"I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"
1976 "Fernando"
"Dancing Queen"
"Money, Money, Money"
1977 "Knowing Me, Knowing You"
"That's Me"
"When I Kissed the Teacher" Per Falkman (SVT crew)
"The Name of the Game" Lasse Hallström
1978 "Take a Chance on Me"
"Eagle"
"One Man, One Woman"
"Thank You for the Music"
"Summer Night City"
1979 "Chiquitita" BBC crew
"Does Your Mother Know" Lasse Hallström
"Voulez-Vous"
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
"I Have a Dream" Urban Larsson
1980 "On and On and On" photo montage
"The Winner Takes It All" Lasse Hallström
"Super Trouper"
"Happy New Year"
1981 "Lay All Your Love on Me" video collage
"When All Is Said and Done" Lasse Hallström
"One of Us"
1982 "Head Over Heels"
"The Day Before You Came" Kjell Sundvall and Kjell-Åke Andersson
"Under Attack"

DVDs

Year Title
1999 ABBA The Winner Takes It All
2004 ABBA in Concert
ABBA: The Last Video
ABBA Super Troupers
2005 ABBA The Movie
2009 ABBA in Japan

See also

References

  • "ABBA - The Worldwide Chart Lists". Worldwide chart positions. Retrieved May 23, 2009.
  • "ABBA for the Record". Comprehensive worldwide discography. Retrieved June 8, 2006.
  • "ABBA: The Site". Ring Ring: ABBA Hits Go Mobile for First Time (contains worldwide sales information). Retrieved June 8, 2006.
  • "ABBA Singles.net". Worldwide chart positions. Retrieved June 8, 2006.
  • "ABBA GDL.com". Mexican Chart Positions. Retrieved June 8, 2006.

Notes

  1. ^ [1] ABBA The Book
  2. ^ [2] Times Online
  3. ^ [3] Carl Magnus Palm - biographer
  4. ^ South Africa Singles Chart
  5. ^ Sweden Top 60 - 07 January 2008
  6. ^ Norway Top 20 - 09 January 2008
  7. ^ Denmark Top 40 Singles
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