ABBA Gold (30th Anniversary)

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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. Entertainment.ie. "Win an ABBA GOLD 40th Anniversary Edition + The Singles CD Boxset – entertainment.ie". Archived from the original on 2018-09-27 . Retrieved 2016-04-22. ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Albums 1992". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Matthew Perpetua (July 24, 2019). "Everything Hits: Spoon Releases An Old School Greatest Hits Album Into A Digital Age". NPR . Retrieved March 31, 2020. Wyróżnienia – Złote płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2019 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 1 May 2020.In the United States, the album has sold a total of 5.8 million copies and is the nineteenth biggest-selling greatest-hits album in the Nielsen Music era (which began in 1991). [7] [8] In Canada, Gold: Greatest Hits achieved Diamond status (one million units sold) in May, 2000. [9]

a b "British album certifications – ABBA – Gold: Greatest Hits". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 5 June 2023. Discos de oro y platino" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011 . Retrieved 15 August 2012. a b "American video certifications – ABBA – Gold". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 1 May 2020.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. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2010 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 1 May 2020. Griffiths, George (4 January 2022). "The Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2021". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 4 January 2022.

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. Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts – 2014" (in German). Offizielle Deutsche Charts . Retrieved 12 December 2018. European Top 100 Albums 1999" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.17, no.1. 1 January 2000. p.11. OCLC 29800226 . Retrieved 12 December 2018– via American Radio History. Oficjalna lista sprzedaży:: OLiS - Official Retail Sales Chart". OLiS. Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 14 March 2019. Cox, Jamieson (29 September 2019). "ABBA: Gold: Greatest Hits Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved 29 September 2019.Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on 12 December 2003 . Retrieved 26 March 2022.