ABBA Gold Still In Charts Around The World 2017 !

ABBA Gold - Released in 1992 - ans still charting around the world in 2017 !

iTunes album Hit Lists have ABBA Gold charting in 77 countries this week - January 2017.

Brilliant !!

Thanks to Ronnie Wielockx for this list:

Antigue & Barbuda 55
Armenia 58
Australia 71
Austria 29 + Soundtrack Mamma Mia 88
Azerbaijan 89
Barbados 45
Belarus 99
Belize 27
Bermuda 61
Bolivia 20
Botswana 94
Brazil 50
BULGARIA 6 + 40th anniversary edition 78
Burkina Faso 37
Canada 44
Cape verde 42
Cayman islands 79
Costa Rica 39
Cyprus 12
Denmark 50 + Soundtrack Mamma Mia 89
Ecuador 36
Egypt 30
El Salvador 24
Estonia 22 + 40th anniversary edition 99
Fiji 31
Finland 37
Germany 68
GREECE 8 +Soundtrack Mamma Mia 10
Guatemala 72
Honduras 66
HUNGARY 10
India 68
Ireland 67
Israel 32
Jordan 46
Kazakhstan 34
KENYA 10
Kyrgyzstan 19
Laos 55
LEBANON 5
Lithuania 25
Luxembourg 13
Malaysia 61
Malta 29
Mauritius 50
Mexico 33
Moldava 52
Mongolia 37 + 40th anniversary edition 73
Mozambique 73
Namibia 42
New Zealand 56
Nicaragua 31
Nigeria 42
Norway 27 + Soundtrack Mamma Mia 26
Panama 32
Papua New Guinea 24
Paraguay 37
Peru 16
Portugal 11 + Soundtrack Mamma Mia 20
Qatar 18
Romania 12
Singapore 58
Slovakia 28
Slovenia 18
South Africa 79
Sri Lanka 14
Sweden 33 + Soundtrack Mamma Mia 20
Switzerland 73 + 40th anniversary edition 50
Trinidad 46
Uganda 31
Ukraine 55
United Arab Emirates 43
United kingdom 95
United states of America 58
Uzbekistan 26
Venezuela 41
Vietnam 51
Zimbabwe 83

'The Best Of ABBA' Released In Australia - November 1975 - 40 Years Ago !

Wow, has it really been 40 years since this most iconic album was released ? How the time does fly.

Released in November 1975, this is the most successful ABBA album in Australia, with sales in excess of 1,250,000 copies !

When you consider that Australia's population at the time was a mere 14 million, that is quite phenomenal.

We were proud of the fact that '1 in ever 4 households in Australia owned an ABBA album' - and rest assured, this was the album that everyone had.

The Best Of ABBA was unique to Australia and New Zealand - with other countries releasing a variation of the 14 or 15 track Greatest Hits.

'The Best Of ABBA' entered the charts on 22 December 1975. The album was released in only 2 States at the time - with the rest of the country not getting the release until February 1976.
After slowly climbing the charts for 14 weeks, it hit the number 1 spot 15 weeks after the initial release and stayed at number 1 for 16 weeks in Australia and 18 weeks in New Zealand !

Overall, it stayed in the charts for an amazing 70 weeks (yes folks, that is more than a year).

At one stage RCA Records couldn’t keep up with the demand for the albums in the country's shops, and copies had to be pressed under licence by a rival record company.

A sentimental favourite for Australians, and probably the most recognisable album cover in this country.

Wonderful memories, playing this album over and over and over :)

New ABBA Collection Items - Various

Some new additions to my ABBA collection:

ABBA Jumper - Australia 1976 - Reg Grundy Productions:

ABBA Cassettes - The Hits, The Hits 2, The Hits 3 - Poland:

The Definitive Collection - Box Set:

2 x 'Weekend' magazines from the UK:

Scania Muller Model Truck - just beautiful !

Greatest Hits LP - Hong Kong:

New ABBA Collection Items - Various

I haven't added any images of my new collection items lately, so here are a few of the latest additions:

Greatest Hits LP - Red Vinyl - RCA El Salvador

Wrapping Paper - UK - makes a beautiful poster :)

ABBA Logo Letters - I already had the set from ABBAWORLD but these ones are from ABBA The Museum. Both sets are the same, only the packaging is different:

Gorgeous set of the ceramic dolls:

Large iron-on transfer from Australia - I thought I had all of these - but I didn't !

Amazing Lois t-shirt - these were worn by ABBA in the 70's during a promotional campaign by Lois. In 2012, Lois did a short run of 'Lois Legends' t-shirts, and this was one of those released:

A beautiful book from Poland - all about ABBA's visit to Poland and TV Special in 1976:

CD Box Set from Germany:

2 gorgeous posters of Agnetha & Frida in Switzerland 1978:

Another pillow case from Australia - image is the same as a previous one I have, but the logo etc is different:

Greatest Hits LP - Israel:

Just a few random items - all lovely additions to my collection.
More images will be added soon :)

ABBA Gracias Por La Musica Deluxe Edition !

Getting closer to the release date now - ABBA Gracias Por La Musica Deluxe Edition:

ABBA Gracias Por La Musica Deluxe Edition - Order Now !

The upcoming release of Gracias Por La Musica Deluxe Edition can now be pre-ordered from Amazon.

This is a Deluxe Edition of CD/DVD and the release date is 10 November 2014.

What a shame it is not in LP format.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gracias-Por-La-Musica-Abba/dp/B00NPJYCIE/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_1

Also can be ordered from Universal Music here (cheaper than Amazon):

http://store.universalmusic.com/udiscover/*/*/Gracias-Por-La-Musica-Deluxe-Edition/3HVG0000000

ABBA Live At Wembley Arena - Nearly Time !!

It's nearly time !!!

Getting very exciting now especially seeing these new images of the CD and LP sets !