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Greatest Hits Vol. 2 is a compilation album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in October 1979 to coincide with their tour of North America and Europe. It was ABBA's second chart-topping album of the year, the first being Voulez-Vous, and contained the new single "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", recorded in August 1979.

The album exclusively included material recorded between the years 1976 and 1979 (albums Arrival, The Album and Voulez-Vous plus non-album single "Summer Night City") - with one exception, "Rock Me" from 1975 album ABBA, issued as a single in Australia and New Zealand after the release of the band's first hits package Greatest Hits and also part of the setlist on the 1979 world tour.

"Angeleyes" was included primarily due to its success as a single in the UK, where it was the lead track of a double A-side with "Voulez-Vous". Elsewhere, "Voulez-Vous" had been the A-side in its own right but it was not included on the album. However, the track "I Wonder (Departure)" was not believed to have been released as a single anywhere, but was featured.

Greatest Hits Vol. 2 received massive commercial success in Japan, selling in excess of 920,000 units on the chart (it was the best-selling album by non-domestic artists at the time, until Michael Jackson's Thriller and the soundtrack of the motion picture Flashdance each sold over 1 million copies in the 1980s).

Greatest Hits Vol. 2 was released on CD in 1983, but was deleted in the early 1990s.

Track listing

All songs by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, unless otherwise noted.

Side A

  1. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" – 4:45
  2. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 4:01
  3. "Take a Chance on Me" – 4:03
  4. "Money, Money, Money" – 3:05
  5. "Rock Me" – 3:05
  6. "Eagle" – 5:53
  7. "Angeleyes" – 4:20

Side B

  1. "Dancing Queen" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 3:51
  2. "Does Your Mother Know" – 3:13
  3. "Chiquitita" – 5:26
  4. "Summer Night City" – 3:34
  5. "I Wonder (Departure)" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 4:32
  6. "The Name of the Game" (Anderson, Andersson, Ulvaeus) – 4:52
  7. "Thank You for the Music" – 3:49

Singles

  1. "Summer Night City"/"Medley" (September 1978)
  2. "Gimme Gimme Gimme"/"The King Has Lost His Crown" (October 1979)

Personnel

ABBA

Additional personnel

  • Rolf Alex - drums
  • Ola Brunkert - drums
  • Lars Carlsson - horn
  • Christer Danielson - horn
  • Andrew Eijas - horn
  • Malando Gassama - percussion
  • Rutger Gunnarsson - bass
  • Gloria Lundell - harp
  • Roger Palm - drums
  • Halldor Palsson - saxophone
  • Janne Schaffer - guitar
  • Bengt Sundberg - horn
  • Åke Sundqvist - percussion
  • Mike Watson - bass
  • Lasse Wellander - guitar
  • Gunnar Wenneborg - horn
  • Kajtek Wojciechowski - saxophone

Production

  • Producers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
  • Engineer: Michael Tretow


Chart positions

Chart (1979-81) Position Weeks
UK Albums Chart (top 100)[1] 1 63
Japanese Oricon Weekly CT Chart (top 100)[2] 1 57
Japanese Oricon Weekly LP Chart (top 100)[2] 2 51
Austrian Albums Chart (top 20)[3] 2 34
New Zealand Albums Chart (top 50)[4] 3 14
Swedish Albums Chart (top 50)[5] 20 5
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart (top 40)[6] 25 4
United States Billboard 200 [7] 46 —

References

  1. ^ "Chart Stats ABBA - Greatest Hits Vol.2". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved September 22, 2009.
  2. ^ a b a-ABBA "- Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - ABBA" (in Japanese). December 30, 2007. Retrieved September 22, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  3. ^ "ABBA - Greatest Hits Vol.2 - austriancharts.at". Retrieved September 22, 2009.
  4. ^ "charts.org.nz - ABBA - Greatest Hits Vol.2". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Retrieved September 22, 2009.
  5. ^ "swedishcharts.com ABBA - Greatest Hits Vol.2". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
  6. ^ "norwegiancharts.com ABBA - Greatest Hits Vol.2". VG-lista. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
  7. ^ "allmusic ((( Greatest Hits Vol.2 > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". allmusic.com. Retrieved September 22, 2009.
Preceded by
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 by Rod Stewart
 UK Albums Chart number one album
17 November 1979 - 1 December 1979
12 January 1980 		Succeeded by
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