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Waterloo is the second studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, and the first released internationally. It was originally released on 4 March 1974 in Sweden through Polar Music . The album's title track won ABBA the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and became a global hit, launching the group's career.
At the end of April the album, titled Voulez-Vous, was finally ready for release and to emphasize the shift towards a disco sound, the album cover shot was taken at Alexandra's night club in Stockholm. [3] The album was released on 23 April 1979, and in the following months of its launch, ABBA released a number of other singles from it.
The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form several times: in 1997 as part of "The ABBA Remasters" series with two bonus tracks, [9] in 2001 with updated cover artwork incorporating their ambigram, first used for their next album Arrival, [10] in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set, and most recently in 2012 as a ...
Voyage is the ninth and final studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, released on 5 November 2021.With ten songs written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, it is the group's first album of new material in forty years, following The Visitors (1981).
Recording began on what was to become ABBA's eighth studio album on March 16, 1981. [10] By this time, tensions in ABBA had heightened. Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog had divorced in July 1980, while the band's other couple, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, announced their divorce in February 1981, adding strain to the musical partnership.
The Singles: The First Ten Years (re-released in 2024 as The Singles: The First Fifty Years) is a double compilation album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released on November 8, 1982. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Issued as a double album of their most famous single A-sides , the collection included two new tracks: " The Day Before You Came " and " Under Attack ". [ 7 ]
Ring Ring is the debut studio album by the Swedish group ABBA, initially credited as Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida.It was released in Scandinavia on 26 March 1973, and later in a limited number of other territories, including West Germany, Australia, South Africa and Mexico, through Polar Music. [9]
A soft vocal cover version of the song can be found on the 2004 ABBA tribute album Funky ABBA by Swedish musician Nils Landgren. This version features Benny Andersson on piano and vocals by Swedish jazz singer Viktoria Tolstoy. In 2006, Swedish opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter covered the song on her ABBA tribute album I Let the Music Speak.