ABBA: Icon (2010) - CD

ABBA was a Swedish pop group founded in Stockholm in 1972.It is one of the most successful bands in the history of popular music.

The name of this band originated as an acronym by combining the initials of the first names of its members A * gneth, B * jörn, B * enny and A * nni-Frid. By 2010, the band had sold over 375 million records and still sells around 3 million albums a year. ABBA achieved an international breakthrough after which won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Waterloo“ in 1974 and was the first non-English speaking pop group, which conquered charts in English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
It has also achieved enormous success in South America and Mexico. ABBA also recorded a compilation album of their hits in Spanish called Gracias Por La Música from 1980, intended for Spanish-speaking countries. There was also great interest in the recordings of the quartet in the countries of the former socialist bloc. For example, in 1978, in the then USSR, demand for 40 million copies of ABBA The Album was met by the Soviet leadership of only 200,000 copies.

Playlist

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Waterloo / SOS / I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do / Mamma Mia / Fernando / Dancing Queen / Knowing Me, Knowing You / The Name of The Game / Take A Chance On Me / Chiquitita / The Winner Takes It All