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To prevent the sale of any of these imported records, ABBA's record label, Polar Music, rush-released their own version of Greatest Hits. [4] The album's songs were taken from ABBA's first three studio albums: Ring Ring, Waterloo and ABBA. With the exception of "Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)", they had all been released as singles.
The compilation album Gold: Greatest Hits (1992) is the second best-selling album of all time in the UK [2] and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. [ 4 ] The members of ABBA are Agnetha Fältskog , Anni-Frid Lyngstad (better known as Frida), Benny Andersson , and Björn Ulvaeus .
With sales of 30 million, [79] Gold is the best-selling ABBA album, as well as one of the best-selling albums worldwide. With sales of 5.5 million copies it is the second-highest selling album of all time in the UK, after Queen's Greatest Hits. [80] More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits, a follow-up to Gold, was released in 1993.
[1] [2] Despite not being released in Norway, imports led the album to chart. After import copies were being sold in Scandinavia, ABBA's Greatest Hits was rush-released there in November 1975. The album topped the charts in Australia, Austria and New Zealand, and went on to be certified 24× Platinum in New Zealand and 22× Platinum in Australia.
Including their releases under their former name "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid" or "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida", ABBA have released songs for nine studio albums, a Spanish language album, a series of compilations and two live albums. A number of unreleased songs recorded by ABBA have not appeared on any of these releases.
Record World called the song "a classic!" [13] "Fernando" was the fourth-biggest single of 1976 in the UK. [14] It spent 10 weeks in the UK Top 10 (more than any other ABBA single), [15] and was also the second of three consecutive UK No. 1 singles for ABBA, after "Mamma Mia" and before "Dancing Queen". [16]