ABBA
won the sort of adulation previously reserved for the
likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, by the end
of 1979 their singles had spent over one hundred and
sixty weeks in the UK charts alone.
ABBA
had eighteen consecutive top ten singles and nine number one
hits in the UK.
The single Waterloo made Number
ten in the American Charts where the Eurovision song Contest
does not count for anything.
Dancing Queen was released on the
6th August 1976 and reached number one on the 4th September and
stayed there for six consecutive weeks.
Dancing Queen and Fernando spent
a total of Sixteen weeks in the charts in 1976,more than 150,000
copies were sold in Sweden alone.
Benny and Bjorn never wrote there
music down on Paper.
The first
ABBA
fan club was located in Australia.
ABBA
the Movie had an unlimited budget.
The songs Happy Hawaii and Why
did it have to be me are the same tunes except they have
different words and musical arrangements.
During the 1977 tour journalists
were speechless when 3.5 million ticket applications came in for
two concerts at the Albert Hall in London.
By August 1977 Polar Music was
described as the most profitable corporation in Sweden with a
turnover of more than twelve million dollars and an estimated
profit for 1977 of £4.000.000.
Polar Music Stockholm office
walls were decorated with original paintings from the likes of
Picasso and Miro among others and well over one hundred gold and
Platinum discs reflecting ABBA`s world wide status.
State
of the art Studio
The Polar music studios were
opened on the 18th May 1978 ,with forty eight track capability
and just about every recording sophistication ever invented, the
cream of Swedish show business and record producers attended to
be shown around by Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Ani-Frid and Michael B
Tretow, they were treated to a complete tour of the Studio which
was the most advanced in Europe.
Frida's first solo album was
produced by Phil Collins.
The Groups last official
appearance on the 18th of January 1986
