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How ABBA's 'Mamma Mia' almost became a hit for another group

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ABBA Charts A New Global Hit With One Of The Band’s Most Beloved Songs

ABBA's “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” debuts on a Billboard chart more than 40 years after its release. Picture taken in 1974 in Stockholm shows the Swedish pop group Abba with its ...
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ABBA Charts A New Hit Album As Several Huge Singles Debut

ABBA charts three albums and four singles on multiple U.K. rankings, with ABBA – The Singles debuting on several tallies thanks to a special re-release. COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Pop group Abba pose for a ...
The Cheat Sheet

‘Mamma Mia’ Wasn’t the ABBA Hit That Inspired the Musical ‘Mamma Mia!’

Part of what made ABBA so compelling is they were so eclectic. They gave the world everything from disco songs to pop ballads to a war-themed sea shanty. Some of their music was pretty theatrical for ...
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How ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus Turned Their 'Difficult' Divorce into a Chart-Topping Hit

'ABBA: AGAINST THE ODDS' premiered Saturday on CW at 8 p.m. ET/PT Leif Skoogfors/Getty To most ABBA fans, "The Winner Takes It All" is the perfect breakup song. What some don't know is that the ...
The Cheat Sheet

Did ABBA Have a Number-One Hit?

ABBA is one of the most significant pop groups of the 1970s. They also deserve recognition for being one of the few Swedish acts to garner a major international fan base. The band’s music reliably has ...