Gold [VINYL]

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With pure sales of 5.61 million copies, [2] Gold: Greatest Hits is the second-highest selling album of all time in the United Kingdom, [3] after Queen's Greatest Hits. [4] In August, 2019, Gold: Greatest Hits became the longest-running top 100 album of all time, spending 900 weeks on the UK Albums Chart. The album spent 61 (non-consecutive) weeks in the top 10 and topped the British chart 5 times, most recently for two weeks in 2008 following release of the motion picture Mamma Mia!. [5] As of July 2021, "Gold" became the first album to reach 1000 weeks on the Official Charts in United Kingdom with pure sales of 5.61 million copies sold in United Kingdom. [2] In November 2021, it was awarded 20× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, denoting six millions album-equivalent unit in the UK. [6] As the division of labor between Andersson and Ulvaeus became clearer later in the band’s discography—the former handled most of the music, the latter wrote the bulk of the lyrics—the divide between subject matter and sound became even more pronounced. The tumult of the band’s personal lives began to subtly leak into their art: “Knowing Me, Knowing You” and “The Winner Takes It All” are crushing glimpses at marriages in disrepair, sung by adults who know they can’t help but carry on with their lives. Relatively silly cuts like future booty-call anthem “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” are marked by quiet urgency: “Half-past 12/And I’m watchin’ the late show in my flat all alone/How I hate to spend the evening on my own,” Faltskog moans. Even “Dancing Queen,” the band’s most purely joyous moment, can’t fully give itself over to pleasure. It’s a celebration of impermanence. You may be young and sweet now, but you won’t be 17 forever. Rob Copsey (April 11, 2019). "The best-selling albums of all time on the Official UK Chart". Official Charts . Retrieved August 18, 2019. Austria Top 40 Jahrescharts 2018: Longplay". Ö3 Austria Top 40. Archived from the original on 2018-06-21 . Retrieved 30 December 2018.

Gold: Greatest Hits has been called one of the most influential compilation albums ever released. Music critic Elisabeth Vincentelli ( New York Post; Time Out New York) credits the album for a revival of critical interest in ABBA's music after ten years of neglect following the band's 1982 break-up. [19] Offiziellecharts.de – ABBA – Gold - Greatest Hits" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 24 October 2018.Shortly after the release of Gold: Greatest Hits, a Spanish version of the album, titled Oro: Grandes Exitos was issued, followed later by Mas Oro: Mas Grandes Exitos. Year End Charts – European Top 100 Albums". Billboard. 2009. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012 . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Bundesverband Musikindustrie: Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (ABBA)". Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 2014-04-11. Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (PDF) (in Spanish) (1sted.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. p.954. ISBN 84-8048-639-2 . Retrieved 23 August 2019. Griffiths, George (9 January 2022). "Ireland's official biggest albums of 2021". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 9 January 2022.

a b c Rob Copsey (2 July 2021). "ABBA Gold becomes first album to reach 1000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart". Official Charts . Retrieved 2 July 2021. a b "American video certifications – ABBA – Gold". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 1 May 2020. Gold: Greatest Hits was well received by the music-buying public, and went on to be one of the best-selling albums of all time. It has been re-released in various "special" or "remastered" releases: A 3 CD edition that includes the original album (disc 1), the More Gold: More Hits album (disc 2) and the "Golden B-sides" (disc 3), containing 20 B-sides. a b Keith Caulfield (April 21, 2017). "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Twenty One Pilots' 'Blurryface' Hits 100th Consecutive Week on List". Billboard . Retrieved April 21, 2017.Schweizer Hitparade: Edelmetall (ABBA)". Schweizer Hitparade. Archived from the original on 2013-12-12 . Retrieved 2014-04-11.

While SDE would prefer to see some love given to 1982’s The Singles: The First Ten Years, you can see why the band persist with ABBA Gold. It is the second highest selling album of all time in the UK (behind Queen’s Greatest Hits) and I’m sure the longterm goal is to try and surpass Queen (there’s around a million sales between them). That isn’t going to happen if you start directing people’s attention to some-other-compilation. ABBA Gold is a big snowball and they want it to get bigger and bigger, not start a new one! Year-End Sales Charts" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.9, no.51/52. 19 December 1992. p.17. OCLC 29800226 . Retrieved 12 December 2018– via American Radio History. a b c "Hits of the World". Billboard. Vol.104, no.48. 28 November 1992. p.61. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved 31 March 2012– via Google Books.

This mix of influences helped create the band’s reputation as purveyors of unrefined schmaltz. The songs on Gold that have aged most poorly are the cuts that bear the greatest schlager influences, songs like “Chiquitita” and “Fernando” and “I Have a Dream.” Even gorgeous hooks wilt up against inelegant English lyrics, martial Germanic pomp, and faux-Italian balladry.