Gold [VINYL]

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ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2010 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 1 May 2020. Matthew Perpetua (July 24, 2019). "Everything Hits: Spoon Releases An Old School Greatest Hits Album Into A Digital Age". NPR . Retrieved March 31, 2020. ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 100 Albums 2014". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018.

ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Albums 1992". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Offiziellecharts.de – ABBA – Gold - Greatest Hits" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 24 October 2018. Rare misses aside, hearing Faltskog and Lyngstad’s impeccable voices weave through a battalion’s worth of riffs, bells, and whistles is an indefatigable source of ecstasy. Listening to “S.O.S.” or “Dancing Queen” or “Super Trouper” for the first time can feel like hearing “ Good Vibrations” or “ Born to Run” in the same fashion: Your pleasure centers are overwhelmed until they blow up like the Grinch’s tiny heart, expanding beyond their old size and becoming something new.

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] Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2000". Jam!. Archived from the original on August 12, 2004 . Retrieved March 24, 2022. 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. Najpopularniejsze albumy i single 2019 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 28 January 2020. 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.

Copsey, Rob (11 December 2019). "The UK's Official Top 100 biggest albums of the decade". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 12 December 2019. This mix of influences helped create the band’s reputation as purveyors of unrefined schmaltz. The songs on Gold that have aged most poorly are the cuts that bear the greatest schlager influences, songs like “Chiquitita” and “Fernando” and “I Have a Dream.” Even gorgeous hooks wilt up against inelegant English lyrics, martial Germanic pomp, and faux-Italian balladry. Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on 12 December 2003 . Retrieved 26 March 2022. Certifications August 14 2005". radioscope.co.nz. Archived from the original on 1 October 2006 . Retrieved September 19, 2022.Skeptics pointed to the watch-like precision of every new ABBA hit as evidence of the band’s soullessness. In a 1993 essay in TIME after Gold’s American release, critic Richard Lacayo wrote that the band “was always easy to enjoy, if you could just put aside the unnerving sense that they were hastening the decline of pop music into commercial calculation and mindless buoyancy.” But the level of quality represented on Gold sprung from more than just studio scheming or bald ambition. By the time ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision contest with “Waterloo,” Andersson and Ulvaeus had each enjoyed a decade of domestic success as musicians, and Faltskog and Lyngstad were working solo artists in their own right. They had collectively played thousands of tour dates across Sweden, produced music for dozens of other artists, and spent untold hours working as a songwriting and performing team. Their mastery and enthusiasm for their craft was indisputable. BuzzFeed music editor Matthew Perpetua included Gold: Greatest Hits among the compilations he considered "so well curated in presenting a fertile period of a career that they are arguably an artist's definitive work". [21] Our full range of studio equipment from all the leading equipment and software brands. Guaranteed fast delivery and low prices.

Album Top-100 2014" (in Danish). Hitlisten.NU. Archived from the original on 18 March 2015 . Retrieved 12 December 2018. 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] Russian album certifications – ABBA – Gold: Greatest Hits" (in Russian). National Federation of Phonogram Producers (NFPF). While SDE would prefer to see some love given to 1982’s The Singles: The First Ten Years, you can see why the band persist with ABBA Gold. It is the second highest selling album of all time in the UK (behind Queen’s Greatest Hits) and I’m sure the longterm goal is to try and surpass Queen (there’s around a million sales between them). That isn’t going to happen if you start directing people’s attention to some-other-compilation. ABBA Gold is a big snowball and they want it to get bigger and bigger, not start a new one! ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 100 Albums 1999". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018.ARIA End of Year Albums 2018". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 10 January 2019. ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 100 Albums 2008". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018. album- és válogatáslemez-lista – chart-pozíció alapján – 2008" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ . Retrieved 12 December 2018. a b c "Hits of the World". Billboard. Vol.104, no.48. 28 November 1992. p.61. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved 31 March 2012– via Google Books.

a b c Rob Copsey (2 July 2021). "ABBA Gold becomes first album to reach 1000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart". Official Charts . Retrieved 2 July 2021. Year End Charts – European Top 100 Albums". Billboard. 2009. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012 . Retrieved 12 December 2018.Certificaciones" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Type ABBA in the box under the ARTISTA column headingand Gold / Greatest Hits in the box under the TÍTULO column heading. Year-End Sales Charts" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.9, no.51/52. 19 December 1992. p.17. OCLC 29800226 . Retrieved 12 December 2018– via American Radio History. With sales of 30 million, [1] Gold is the best-selling ABBA album, as well one of the best-selling albums worldwide. Since 1992, it has been re-released several times, most notably in 1999 as the first remastered reissue to mark the group's 25th anniversary of winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, in 2008 to coincide with the release of the film Mamma Mia! and most recently in 2014 to mark the group's 40th anniversary of winning the Eurovision Song Contest. 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. From 2008 onwards, only the international editions have been released in Australia and New Zealand.