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But despite the lack of concert tours ABBA managed to achieve a US number one single with 'Dancing Queen' in April 1977.

ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits

With sales of 30 million, Gold is the best-selling ABBA album, as well one of the best-selling albums worldwide.

As the month of December arrived, the very last ABBA single, 'Under Attack' / 'You Owe Me One', was released (curiously, in ABBA's native Sweden the single was not released until the following February).

TikTok's latest trend is to bond over nostalgic childhood memories with a sped-up version of the song “Angeleyes” by ABBA. The trend applies to any element of a Gen Z's childhood: places that have closed down, old TV shows, famous people, or other aspects of their personal lives (family, friends, or pets).Jun 22, 2022

"Voulez-Vous" (pronounced [vule vu] voo-lay-voo; French for "Do you want?") is a 1979 song by the Swedish group ABBA, written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.

• Take a Chance on Me. " Take a Chance on Me " is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released in January 1978 as the second single from their fifth studio album ABBA: The Album. The song has been featured on a number of ABBA compilations such as Gold: Greatest Hits .

• Amy Linden from Entertainment Weekly said that Erasure "reverently tarts up "Take a Chance on Me", as keyboard whiz Vince Clarke pumps the '70s gems full of '92 club aggression." She also stated that the duo "digs that ABBA were Euro pop gods, and they pay respect with a frothy testimonial that has its tongue in the right place."

• The working title of "Take a Chance on Me" was "Billy Boy". Written and recorded in 1977 by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the song was one of ABBA's first singles in which their manager Stig Anderson assist with writing the lyrics, confirming Andersson and Ulvaeus as a songwriting partnership.

• Take a-take a chance-chance, take a chance, take a chance, take a chance. Take a chance, take a-take a chance-chance, take a chance, take a chance. If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown. Take a-take a chance-chance, take a chance, take a chance.