Abba Date - 18th February 1978

In America "Abba - The Album" entered the Billboard chart on the 18th February 1978 where it stayed for 41 weeks peaking at number 14. This was the highest chart position of any Abba album in the US with only three other albums "Arrival", "Voulez-Vous" and "Super Trouper" reaching the Top 20.

Abba Date - 18th February 1978

On the 18th February 1978 ABBA's latest single in the UK "Take A Chance On Me" hit the number one spot in the singles chart replacing "Figaro" by the Brotherhood Of Man. The single stayed at the top of the chart until 11th March when it was replaced by Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights".

The single also went to number one in Austria, Ireland and Mexico - in the UK the single was the 9th biggest selling of 1978 and also gave ABBA the most number 1s of any other artist in the UK during the 70s.

Q Magazine

The current issue of Q Magazine in the UK includes a brief mention of Abba...

Abba Compilation

This Abba compilation album with the catchy title "The Best Collection Of World Popular Music, Pops And Vocal-13" was released on vinyl in South Korea in 1988 and included the following tracks -

Side 1

• Super Trouper
• Knowing Me, Knowing You
• Waterloo
• Take A Chance On Me
• Mamma Mia
• I Have A Dream
• Name Of The Game
• Fernando

Side 2

• The Winner Takes It All
• Dancing Queen
• S.O.S
• Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
• I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
• Summer Night City
• Chiquitita

Record Mart

Abba were featured on the cover of the May 1999 issue of Record Mart magazine in the UK. The article inside the magazine, titled "Pathways", covered the group's recording history over six pages and also included an interview with Michael Tretow.

Abba Date - 16th February 1978

On the 16th February 1978 Abba appeared on the TV show Blue Peter prior to the UK premier of "Abba The Movie" later the same day ; during the interview a clip of the group performing "So Long" from the film was shown together with the video for their single "Take A Chance On Me"...

Film Special

The pictures below are from a magazine from my collection called "ABBA Film Special" which includes images from "ABBA The Movie" including a couple I have never seen before...