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- ABBA’s 1977 release, Arrival, reached the United States at the height of the disco craze, and it provided the group with its sole American number one single—the catchy and undeniably club-friendly “ Dancing Queen.”
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- "Dancing Queen" This song was essentially the band selling the disco sound back to the U.S., but it worked: "Dancing Queen" became the band's only American number-one single (and number one in 14 other countries) a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee and probably their defining song around the world.
- "Take a Chance on Me" The band's last top-five single in America, the 1978 hit reached number three. One of the first Abba hits written without the help of their manager, it was inspired by Bjorn's love of running—he would use a "tck-a-ch" rhythm to pace himself.
- "Waterloo" The 1974 song was an international smash hit for the band after it won the Eurovision Song Contest. The undeniably catchy nature of the song, however, helped the song to chart in places where Eurovision meant nothing—like the U.S., where the song hit number six.
- "The Winner Takes It All" The ultimate Abba divorce anthem, the 1980 song was their last U.S. top 10 after it hit number eight. Not bad for a song that Bjorn says he wrote the lyrics for in an hour while drunk.
It was a worldwide hit. It became ABBA's only number one hit in the United States, and topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, West Germany and the Soviet Union. "Dancing Queen" also reached the top ...
ABBA's biggest hit singles worldwide are "Dancing Queen" and "Fernando", with Arrival being their biggest hit studio album. The compilation album Gold: Greatest Hits (1992) is the second best-selling album of all time in the UK and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
"Take a Chance on Me" was a number one hit in Austria, Belgium and Mexico, made the Top 3 in the US, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, while only reaching numbers 12 and 14 in Australia and New Zealand, respectively. Both songs were Top 10 hits in countries as far afield as Rhodesia and South Africa, as well as in France.
But despite the lack of concert tours ABBA managed to achieve a US number one single with ‘Dancing Queen’ in April 1977. As Jerry Greenberg recalled, it provided a window of opportunity for the group that they could have capitalised on, had they been so inclined.
May 17, 2024 · While ABBA produced an impressive number of hit singles, some of their most notable chart-topping songs are “Dancing Queen” (1976), “Super Trouper” (1980), and “Knowing Me, Knowing You” (1977). “Dancing Queen” stands apart for its induction into the Recording Academy’s Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.
Mar 24, 2020 · The only ABBA number-one hit. The answer is yes. They had a single number-one hit in America. “Dancing Queen” was the only song which hit number-one. This is pretty astounding.
