ABBA Gold (30th Anniversary)

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Record Industry Association of Korea:: Pop aggregated record sales in 2000". January 2001. Archived from the original on 18 March 2009 . Retrieved 5 June 2020. Album Top-100 2014" (in Danish). Hitlisten.NU. Archived from the original on 18 March 2015 . Retrieved 12 December 2018. a b "American video certifications – ABBA – Gold". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 1 May 2020. Year-End Sales Charts" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.10, no.51/52. 18 December 1993. p.15. OCLC 29800226 . Retrieved 12 December 2018– via American Radio History. With pure sales of 5.61 million copies, [2] Gold: Greatest Hits is the second-highest selling album of all time in the United Kingdom, [3] after Queen's Greatest Hits. [4] In August, 2019, Gold: Greatest Hits became the longest-running top 100 album of all time, spending 900 weeks on the UK Albums Chart. The album spent 61 (non-consecutive) weeks in the top 10 and topped the British chart 5 times, most recently for two weeks in 2008 following release of the motion picture Mamma Mia!. [5] As of July 2021, "Gold" became the first album to reach 1000 weeks on the Official Charts in United Kingdom with pure sales of 5.61 million copies sold in United Kingdom. [2] In November 2021, it was awarded 20× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting six millions album-equivalent unit in the UK. [6]

Gold: Greatest Hits has been called one of the most influential compilation albums ever released. Music critic Elisabeth Vincentelli ( New York Post; Time Out New York) credits the album for a revival of critical interest in ABBA's music after ten years of neglect following the band's 1982 break-up. [19] As the division of labor between Andersson and Ulvaeus became clearer later in the band’s discography—the former handled most of the music, the latter wrote the bulk of the lyrics—the divide between subject matter and sound became even more pronounced. The tumult of the band’s personal lives began to subtly leak into their art: “Knowing Me, Knowing You” and “The Winner Takes It All” are crushing glimpses at marriages in disrepair, sung by adults who know they can’t help but carry on with their lives. Relatively silly cuts like future booty-call anthem “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” are marked by quiet urgency: “Half-past 12/And I’m watchin’ the late show in my flat all alone/How I hate to spend the evening on my own,” Faltskog moans. Even “Dancing Queen,” the band’s most purely joyous moment, can’t fully give itself over to pleasure. It’s a celebration of impermanence. You may be young and sweet now, but you won’t be 17 forever. Top Stranih – Tjedan 3. 2010"[Top Foreign – Week 3, 2010]. Top of the Shops (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 12 January 2016 . Retrieved 4 October 2012. Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2000". Jam!. Archived from the original on August 12, 2004 . Retrieved March 24, 2022.

In the United States, the album has sold a total of 5.8 million copies and is the nineteenth biggest-selling greatest-hits album in the Nielsen Music era (which began in 1991). [7] [8] In Canada, Gold: Greatest Hits achieved Diamond status (one million units sold) in May, 2000. [9] Ottesen, Kai Roger (23 January 1993). "P'Gram Norway Tries Mail Biz" (PDF). Billboard. p.55. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved 5 May 2022.

Top 200 Albums of 2002 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on 6 September 2004 . Retrieved 23 March 2022. Cheah, Philip (21 August 1993). "Singapore" (PDF). Billboard magazine. p.SE-26 . Retrieved 22 November 2020– via World Radio History. Year End Charts – European Top 100 Albums". Billboard. 2009. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012 . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Le cifre degli album più venduti nel 2008" (in Italian). Musica e Dischi. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012 . Retrieved 29 June 2022.Entertainment.ie. "Win an ABBA GOLD 40th Anniversary Edition + The Singles CD Boxset – entertainment.ie". Archived from the original on 2018-09-27 . Retrieved 2016-04-22. The RPM Top 100 Albums of 1993". RPM. Vol.58, no.23. 18 December 1993. ISSN 0315-5994 . Retrieved 12 December 2018– via Library and Archives Canada. Cox, Jamieson (29 September 2019). "ABBA: Gold: Greatest Hits Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved 29 September 2019. Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on 12 December 2003 . Retrieved 26 March 2022. Shortly after the release of Gold: Greatest Hits, a Spanish version of the album, titled Oro: Grandes Exitos was issued, followed later by Mas Oro: Mas Grandes Exitos.

Wyróżnienia – Platynowe płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 1999 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Japanese album certifications – ABBA – Gold: Greatest Hits" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. Select 2009年2月 on the drop-down menu ABBA: Gold - Greatest Hits" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 24 October 2018. European Top 100 Albums 1999" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.17, no.1. 1 January 2000. p.11. OCLC 29800226 . Retrieved 12 December 2018– via American Radio History. Oficjalna lista sprzedaży:: OLiS - Official Retail Sales Chart". OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

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Copsey, Rob (11 December 2019). "The UK's Official Top 100 biggest albums of the decade". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 12 December 2019. From 2008 onwards, only the international editions have been released in Australia and New Zealand. Needham, Alex (27 April 2018). "Abba announce first new songs for 35 years". The Guardian. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018 . Retrieved 22 November 2020.

The 2002 re-release was not released in Australia, while in New Zealand, the international edition was issued. Offiziellecharts.de – ABBA – Gold - Greatest Hits" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 24 October 2018. The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (ABBA; 'Gold – Greatest Hits ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. A 3 CD edition that includes the original album (disc 1), the More Gold: More Hits album (disc 2) and the "Golden B-sides" (disc 3), containing 20 B-sides.

Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1999" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.