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Abba - The Major Compilation Albums 1982 -2000

 

The Singles- The First Ten Years

Release Date

Date Album entered UK Album Chart

Highest Position Reached

Number of weeks at number one

Total Number of weeks in chart

8th November 1982

20Th November 1982

1

1 (27th November 1982)

22

CD 1

1) Ring Ring
2) Waterloo
3) So Long
4) I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
5) S.O.S
6) Mamma Mia
7) Fernando
8) Dancing Queen
9) Money, Money, Money
10) Knowing Me Knowing You
11) The Name Of The Game
12) Take A Chance On Me
13) Summer Night City

CD 2

1) Chiquitita
2) Does Your Mother Know
3) Voulez-Vous
4) Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
(A Man After Midnight)
5) I Have A Dream
6) The Winner Takes It All
7) Super Trouper
8) One Of Us
9) The Day Before You Came
10) Under Attack

 

ABBA Live

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Release Date

Date Album entered UK Album Chart

Highest Position Reached

Number of weeks at number one

Total Number of weeks in chart

18th June 1986

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1. Dancing Queen
2. Take A Chance On Me
3. I Have A Dream
4. Does Your Mother Know
5. Chiquitita
6. Thank You For The Music
7. Two For The Price Of One
8. Fernando
9. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
10. Super Trouper
11. Waterloo
12. Money, Money, Money
13. The Name Of The Game/Eagle
14. On And On And On

 

 

ABBA GOLD

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Release Date

Date Album entered UK Album Chart

Highest Position Reached

Number of weeks at number one

Total Number of weeks in chart

21st September 1992

3rd October 1992

1

1 (3rd October 1992- straight in at number 1)

206
 

30th January 1999 (re-issue)

1

 17th April 1999 for 1 week
1st May 1999 for 2 weeks
29th May 1999 for 2 weeks

49

1. Dancing Queen
2. Knowing Me Knowing You
3. Take A Chance On Me
4. Mamma Mia
5. Lay All Your Love On Me
6. Super Trouper
7. I Have A Dream
8. The Winner Takes It All
9. Money, Money, Money
10. S.O.S
11. Chiquitita
12. Fernando
13. Voulez-Vous
14. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
15. Does Your Mother Know
16. One Of Us
17. The Name Of The Game
18. Thank You For The Music
19. Waterloo

 

More ABBA Gold

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Release Date

Date Album entered UK Album Chart

Highest Position Reached

Number of weeks at number one

 Total Number of weeks in chart

24th May 1993

5th June 1993

7th August 1999

14

13

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14

9

1. Summer Night City
2. Angeleyes
3. The Day Before You Came
4. Eagle
5. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
6. So Long
7. Honey Honey
8. The Visitors
9. Our Last Summer
10. On And On And On
11. Ring Ring
12. I Wonder (Departure)
13. Love Light
14. Head Over Heels
15. When I Kissed The Teacher
16. I Am The City
17. Cassandra
18. Under Attack
19. When All Is Said And Done
20. The Way Old Friends Do

 

 

 

Thank You For The Music (Boxed Set)

Release Date

Date Album entered UK Album Chart

Highest Position Reached

Number of weeks at number one

Total Number of weeks in chart

31st October 1994

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Disc 1
AGNETHA FALTSKOG

1) People Need Love
2) Another Town Another Train
3) He Is Your Bother
4) Love Isn't Easy
5) Ring Ring
6) Waterloo
7) Hasta Manana
8) Honey Honey
9) Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)
10) So Long
11) I've Been Waiting For You
12) I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
13) S.O.S
14) Mamma Mia
15) Fernando
16) Dancing Queen
17) That's Me
18) When I Kissed The Teacher
19) Money, Money, Money
20) Crazy World
21) My Love My Life

DISC 2
BJORN ULVEAUS

1) Knowing Me Knowing You
2) Happy Hawaii
3) The Name Of The Game
4) I Wonder (Departure) -Live Version
5) Eagle
6) Take A Chance On Me
7) Thank You For The Music
8) Summer Night City
9) Chiquitita
10) Lovelight
11) Does Your Mother Know
12) Voulez - Vous
13) Angeleyes
14) Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
15) I Have A Dream

DISC 3
BENNY ANDERSSON

1) The Winner Takes It All
2) Elaine
3) Super Trouper
4) Lay All Your Love On Me
5) On and On and On
6) Our Last Summer
7) The Way Old Friends Do
8) The Visitors
9) One Of Us
10) Should I Laugh Or Cry
11) Head Over Heels
12) When All is Said And Done
13) Like An Angel Passing Throuhg My Room
14) The Day Before You Came
15) Cassandra
16) Under attack

DISC 4
ANNIFRID LYNSTAD

1) Put On Your White Sombrero
2) Dream World
3) Thank You For The Music (Doris Day Mix)
4) Hej Gamle Man
5) Merry - Go - Round
6) Santa Rosa
7) She's My Kind Of Girl
8) Medley - Pick a Bale Of Cotton,
On Top Of Old Smokey,
Midnight Special
9) You Owe Me One
10) Slipping Through My Fingers/MeAnd I
11) ABBA Undeleted (see below)
12) Waterloo (French/Swedish)
13) Ring Ring (Swedish/French/German)
14) Honey Honey (Swedish)

ABBA Undeleted (23.30 mins)

The section entitled undeleted consists of the following rarities:

Compiled and edited by Michael B. Tretow in 1994.

ABBA undeleted was first released on the 4 CD box set Thank You For The Music on 31 October 1994.

* excerpt first released as part of ABBA undeleted

Song Lead Vocalist Working Title Recording Commenced

Recording Time (mins)

 Details
Scaramouche Instrumental. Antonio från Borneo. 1 June 1977.

0.50 *

  
Summernight City Björn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida.   October 1978.

0.22 *

 Re-recording of original version during studio session. Incorporates brief excerpt of Money, Money, Money,
Take A Chance On Me Instrumental Working title: Billy Boy

Later rerecorded.

 3 August 1977.

2.00

First released as part of ABBA undeleted
Baby Agnetha. Working title:
Didn't I.

Working title of Rock Me.

 18 October 1974.

1.04 *

  
Just A Notion Agnetha & Frida. Ich Hab Angst. 17 August 1978.

1.38 *

 Full length version later recorded by Arrival.
Ricky Rock ‘N’ Roller Agnetha & Frida.   15 September 1974.

2.07 *

 Later recorded by Jerry Williams.
Burning My Bridges Björn   3 June 1980.

1.26 *

 Part of chorus originally used in Hamlet III.

Part of chorus later used in Lotties Schottis.
Fernando Frida.   5 August 1975 as Tango.

1.12 *

 Originally planned as a solo recording by Frida.

Early version of Fernando (Swedish version).
Here Comes Rubie Jamie   Working title: Dixie.

Working title of Terra del Fuego.

 16 September 1974.    
Hamlet III Parts 1 & 2 Instrumental (Part 1);
Agnetha & Frida (Part 2)		 Dr. Claus von Hamlet (Part 1), Hamlet III (Part 2). 13 March 1978 (Part 1),
31 August 1978 (Part 2).		   .
Free as a Bumble Bee Björn & Benny. Svantes Inferno. 29 May 1978.

1.39 *

 Chorus later used in I Know Him So Well.
Rubber Ball Man Agnetha & Frida   8 August 1979.

1.30 *

 Simultaneously performed in rehearsal for 1979 tour as Under My Sun.
Part of verse later used in Under Attack.
Crying Over You Björn   16 September 1978

1.20 *

  
Just Like That Agnetha   2 June 1982.

2.02 *

 Edited from original version.
Givin’ A Little Bit More Björn   25 May 1981.

1.57 *

  

 

 

 

 

Love Stories

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Release Date

Date Album entered UK Album Chart

Highest Position Reached

Number of weeks at number one

Total Number of weeks in chart
 

7th November 1998

51

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2

1. Fernando
2. The Name Of the Game
3. Chiquitita
4. The Winner Takes It All
5. I Have A Dream
6. The Day Before You Came
7. One Of Us
8. Andante, Andante
9. One man One Woman
10. Eagle
11. Slipping Through my Fingers
12. My Love My Life
13. Our Last Summer
14. Like An Angel Passing Through my Room
15. I Wonder (Departure)
16. I Let The Music Speak
17. The Way old Friends Do

 

 

The Music Still Goes On

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Release Date

Date Album entered UK Album Chart

Highest Position Reached

Number of weeks at number one

Total Number of weeks in chart

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1. Does Your Mother Know
2. Ring Ring
3. On and On and On
4. When I Kissed The Teacher
5. If It Wasn't For The Nights
6. As Good As New
7. Eagle
8. Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)
9. The Visitors
10. When All Is Said And Done
11. So Long
12. Bang-A-Boomerang
13. Me And I
14. Move On
15. Gonna Sing You My Love Song
16. Arrival

 

 

Last Updated 01/06/2008