ABBA

   
Artist: ABBA

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Other
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   R&B: Soul
   

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Discography:


   
 Number Ones

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 19


   
 The Complete Studio Recordings

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 19


   
 The Best Of Abba

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 20


   
 La Nostra Storia

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 20


   
 18 Hits

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 18


   
 Todo Abba - Sus Grandes Exitos

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 19


   
 Story

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 20


   
 ABBA Story

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 20


   
 Super Trouper

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Rarities

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12


   
 Complete Singles Collection (Disc 2)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 15


   
 Complete Singles Collection (Disc 1)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 18


   
 Complete Singles Collection

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 33


   
 Mamma Mia

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 24


   
 The Album

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 ABBA Live

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 14


   
 More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 20


   
 Thank You for the Music (Disc 4)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 14


   
 Thank You for the Music (Disc 3)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 16


   
 Thank You for the Music (Disc 2)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 15


   
 Thank You for the Music (Disc 1)

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 21


   
 Gold Ballads

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 16


   
 Gold: Greatest Hits

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 19


   
 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 19


   
 Gemini - Geminism

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 10


   
 Live

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 15


   
 The Visitors

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 14


   
 Voulez-Vous

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 12


   
 Arrival

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 11


   
 Abba

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 13


   
 Waterloo

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 11


   
 Ring Ring

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 12


   
 Single Hits

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 20


   
 Lycka

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 12


   
 Just Like That CDS (Mix)

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Collection

   Year:    
Tracks: 20

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The nigh commercially successful pop radical of the seventies, the origins of the Swedish superstars ABBA dated back to 1966, when keyboardist and vocalizer Benny Andersson, a quondam member of the popular beat rig the Hep Stars, first teamed with guitarist and vocalist Bjorn Ulvaeus, the drawing card of the folk-rock unit the Hootenanny Singers. The two performers began composing songs unitedly and treatment academic session and output work for Polar Music/Union Songs, a publishing party owned by Stig Anderson, himself a fertile songster end-to-end the fifties and sixties. At the same time, both Andersson and Ulvaeus worked on projects with their respective girlfriends: Ulvaeus had suit involved with vocalist Agnetha Faltskog, a performing artist with a late telephone number one Swedish hit, "I Was So in Love," under her belt, piece Andersson began beholding Anni-Frid Lyngstad, a quondam jazz singer wHO rose to celebrity by winning a national endowment contest.


In 1971, Faltskog ventured into theatrical work, accepting the persona of Mary Magdalene in a product of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Christ Christ Superstar; her deal of the musical's "Don't Know How to Love Him" became a significant stumble. The following class, the duo of Andersson and Ulvaeus scored a massive external hit with "People Need Love," which featured Faltskog and Lyngstad on championship vocals. The record's success earned them an invitation to enter the Swedish leg of the 1973 Eurovision song contest, where, under the unwieldy describe of Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida, they submitted "Ring Ring," which proved extremely democratic with audiences but located only if one-third in the judges' ballots.


The succeeding year, rechristened ABBA (a suggestion from Stig Anderson and an acronym of the members' first name calling), the quaternion submitted the single "Waterloo," and became the number one Swedish play to come through the Eurovision contention. The record proved to be the get-go of many international hits, although the group hit a sink after their initial success as subsequent singles failed to graph. In 1975, however, ABBA issued "S.O.S.," a break not only in America and Britain but also in non-English speaking countries such as Spain, Germany and the Benelux nations, where the group's success was fairly unprecedented. A string of hits followed, including "Mammary gland Mia," "Fernando," and "Terpsichore Queen" (ABBA's sole U.S. chart-topper), further honing their lush, buoyant sound; by the spring of 1976, they were already in place to issue their showtime Greatest Hits collection.


ABBA's popularity continued in 1977, when both "Wise Me, Knowing You" and "The Name of the Game" dominated airwaves. The group also asterisked in the feature film ABBA -- The Movie, which was released in 1978. That year Andersson and Lyngstad married, as had Ulvaeus and Faltskog in 1971, although the latter couple separated a few months after; in fact, romantic suffering was the national of many songs on the quartet's future LP, 1979's Voulez-Vous. Shortly after the release of eighties Super Trouper, Andersson and Lyngstad divorced as well, farther twisting the group active; The Visitors, issued the following class, was the final LP of new ABBA material, and the four officially disbanded after the December 1982 acquittance of their individual "Under Attack."


Although all of the group's members soon embarked on new projects -- both Lyngstad and Faltskog issued solo LPs, spell Andersson and Ulvaeus collaborated with Tim Rice on the musical Chess -- none proved as successful as the group's originally ferment, mostly because end-to-end very much of the worldly concern, specially Europe and Australia, the ABBA phenomenon never went forth. Repackaged hits compilations and springy collections continued striking the charts long after the group's dying, and new artists regularly pointed to the quartet's divine guidance: patch the British terpsichore duet Erasure released a covers collection, ABBA-esque, an Australian group called Bjorn Again found achiever as ABBA impersonators. In 1993, "Terpsichore Queen" became a raw material of U2's "Zoo TV" tour -- Andersson and Ulvaeus even coupled the Irish superstars onstage in Stockholm -- spell the 1995 feature Muriel's Wedding, which south Korean won applaud for its limning of a lonesome Australian girl wHO seeks refuge in ABBA's medicine, helped wreak the group's work to the attention of a modern generation of moviegoers and music fans.





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