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Music > Albums > ABBA - Greatest Hits 30th Anniversary (2006) Retail CD
added on February 26, 2007, at 15:53 by bki

ABBA's Greatest Hits is an album that has many interesting anegdotes about it. It took 30 years to see it become available on CD, because there was no need to do so with Gold, More Gold and tons of other (better) compilations available. It was a really odd decision to release it only 2-3 years into ABBA's shaky career (they were barely 2 years famous when this album hit European markets), but it was a great move. After its first release in Sweden (November 1975), it was re-released in Europe in spring of 1976 (different cover, Fernando added to the tracklisting). In UK alone, it became one of the biggest 70s album, spent 130 weeks on chart, many weeks on #1 (actually, it was their first major album success), still it only contained 6 UK hit singles(!), 3 of them reaching #1 with ease. Only 2 years of international career and just half a dozen hits on a greatest hits smash album. It could only mean ABBA. And things really became easy for them from then on. One could speculate that Greatest Hits Volume 2 (1979) and The Singles-the First Ten Years (1982) should also become available on CD, and I have to agree, although I wouldn't reccomend spending money on it unless you are true ABBA freak. It would be far wiser to make your own copy (you know you have all the tracks on numerous CDs) and print the covers when they become available. However, there are 4 ABBA #1 greatest hits packages out there, and only two are now available on CD. Any #1 album, in my opinion, qualifies for a CD release. I hope you'll enjoy the weirdest official ABBA cover, some largely unknown tracks such as Another Town, Nina, He Is Your Brother (released as a single only in Sweden) under the everpopular Greatest Hits tag.

cd 989 x 980 px

back 2033 x 1562 px

front 1051 x 1059 px