ABBA ‘Gold’ Is First Album to Log 1,000 Weeks on U.Okay. Chart

The profession-retrospective sits at the again of correct kind one title on the U.Okay.’s all-time bestsellers list, Queen’s Supreme Hits (Virgin) from 1981.

“To beget racked up 1,000 weeks on the Legit Albums Chart, a grand 20 years of chart presence, is somewhat outstanding,” comments Martin Talbot, CEO of the Legit Charts Company. “It now no longer simplest highlights their exceptional fame, nonetheless correct kind how carefully they’ve linked with a succession of new generations.”

The two albums trailing ABBA Gold on the longevity list aren’t a ways at the again of. Bob Marley & The Wailers’ series Yarn (Tuff Gong) is at No. 2, with 984 weeks, while Queen’s Supreme Hits is on 952 weeks. For the memoir, ABBA Gold (by method of Polydor) lifts 23-17 on the most up-to-the-minute weekly chart.

ABBA’s profession went supernova following the community’s unforgettable examine the 1974 Eurovision Tune Contest, which they won with “Waterloo”.

Following a string of hits, and greater than 100 million albums sold, fans mentioned thank-you for the song in 1982, when the bandmates — Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad — went their separate ways.

In 2016, ABBA launched a reunion of types, in the abolish of a digital tour with “ABBAtars,” as successfully as a television particular. And in 2018, the Swedes launched a handful of new songs. The all-star tribute is coming to NBC and the BBC, the tour is claimed to be in the works, and the brand new song is aloof beneath lock and key.