Fltskog and Ulvaeus eventually were involved in each other's recording sessions,[26] and soon even Andersson and Lyngstad added backing vocals to Fltskog's third studio album, Som jag r ("As I Am") (1970). However sadly it is not to take up the $1 billion standing offer to tour again but to celebrate a Mamma Mia-themed theatre restaurant in Sweden. They have been working together since 1972, when they were in their twenties. The campaign was also broadcast in Japan. Back in the studio again in early August, the group had changed plans for the rest of the year: they settled for a Christmas release of a double album compilation of all their past single releases to be named The Singles: The First Ten Years. ABBA fell apart after both the couples at the heart of the group filed for divorce - and the collapse of her relationship even left one of the band members, Agnetha Falkskog, "emotionally . In addition to the four members of ABBA, other musicians played on their studio recordings, live appearances and concert performances. ABBA bandmembers Bjrn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog have just confirmed a dramatic return to the music industry with a brand new album and major shows - but. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982. Here We Go Again, was released in 2018. [68] In January 1983, Fltskog started recording sessions for a solo album, as Lyngstad had successfully released her album Something's Going On some months earlier. ABBA is Sweden's biggest ever pop group and one of the most popular bands in history. The band became well known for their 70s style outrageous costumes throughout their career. She has also released hit solo albums and starred in several . Stig Anderson arranged an English translation of the lyrics by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody and they thought this would be a success. As a member of ABBA, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, in 1974 with the song "Waterloo" (6th April 1974). ABBA never officially announced the end of the group or an indefinite break, but it was long considered dissolved after their final public performance together in 1982. Although "Take a Chance on Me" did not top the American charts, it proved to be ABBA's biggest hit single there, selling more copies than "Dancing Queen". Along with praise ("ABBA turn out to be amazingly successful at reproducing their records", wrote Creem), there were complaints that "ABBA performed slicklybut with a zero personality coming across from a total of 16 people on stage" (Melody Maker). (A Man After Midnight)"; the song was a smash hit, peaking at number one in at least 50 countries. Bjrn Ulvaeus (born 25 April 1945 in Gothenburg, Sweden) also began his musical career at the age of 18 (as a singer and guitarist), when he fronted the Hootenanny Singers, a popular Swedish folkskiffle group. One of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time,[2] they became one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982, and in 2022. They have soldover 380 million albums and singles worldwide and were the first group from a non-English speaking country to have consistent success in English speaking countries. "[69] Abba. Although it topped the album charts across most of Europe, including Ireland, the UK and Germany, The Visitors was not as commercially successful as its predecessors, showing a commercial decline in previously loyal markets such as France, Australia and Japan. They have been working together since 1972, when they were in their twenties. They did, however, get three more singles to the number-one position on other Billboard US charts, including Billboard Adult Contemporary and Hot Dance Club Play). Abba Fan Club Magazine, Helga van de Kar, "Abba's Gold Medal", September 2012, p. 3. Agnetha released four solo LPs between 1968 and 1971. 22. Do the members of ABBA have children? The song is widely misunderstood as being written about Ulvaeus and Fltskog's marital tribulations; Ulvaeus wrote the lyrics, but has stated they were not about his own divorce; Fltskog has repeatedly stated she was not the loser in their divorce. After receiving little attention during the mid-to-late-1980s, ABBA's music experienced a resurgence in the early 1990s due to the UK synth-pop duo Erasure, who released Abba-esque, a four track extended play release featuring cover versions of ABBA songs which topped several European charts in 1992. In 2022, the group will go on tour, performing using holographic avatars of their younger selves. In June 1966, Bjrn Ulvaeus (born 1945) met Benny Andersson (born 1946) for the first time. Sources also indicate that sales in Poland exceeded 1 million copies and that sales demand in Russia could not be met by the supply available. By early 1976, the group already had four Top 30 singles on the US charts, but the album market proved to be tough to crack. They were actually two married couples (Benny and Frieda, Bjorn and Agnetha) whose letters of their first names formed the acronym ABBA (Frida being short for Annfrida). Agnetha, Bjorn , Benny and Anni-Frid - Names that put a smile on people's faces all over the world. Best celeb sites: Mr Skin Leaked celeb photos The Swedish group ABBA, was made up of two married couples. Guitarist Alex Lifeson became the band's longest-running and most consistent member. Having sold nearly 400 million albums . "One day the pair of you will write a song that becomes a worldwide hit," he predicted. Agnetha and Bjorn were married from 1971-1980 and Anni-Frid and Benny were married from 1978-1982. [106], On 22 September 2020, all four ABBA members reunited at Ealing Studios in London to continue working on the avatar project and filming for the tour. But what have the members been up to in the time in between? "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. She currently lives in Switzerland with her British partner, Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph following the premiere, Ulvaeus and Andersson said that there was nothing that could entice them back on stage again. Lyngstad also played in several revues and cabaret shows in Stockholm between 1969 and 1973. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the . Initials of Brigitte Bardot? Due to a lack of demand, they were even forced to cancel a few shows, including a sole concert scheduled in Switzerland. They also worked together on the film evening making a cameo appearance- Benny as a piano-playing fisherman in the Dancing Queen scene, and Bjrn as a Greek god playing the lyre during the closing credits. A competition to find a suitable name for the group was held in a Gothenburg newspaper and it was officially announced in the summer that the group were to be known as "ABBA." OLLE LINDEBORG/AFP via Getty Images ABBA, one of the most successful pop groups in history, is reuniting after 40 years. Fltskog's blonde good looks had long made her the band's "pin-up girl", a role she disdained. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged as a palindrome. Boublil previously also wrote the French lyric for Mireille Mathieu's version of "The Winner Takes It All". But in the 1980s, ABBA went on an indefinite hiatus, which ended up turning into the dissolution of the band. Ten ABBA albums have made their way into the top half of the Billboard 200 album chart, with eight reaching the Top 50, five reaching the Top 20 and one reaching the Top 10. Last Updated: January 2023. She had met Ulvaeus briefly in 1963 during a talent contest, and Fltskog during a TV show in early 1968. [89][90] On 6 June 2016, the quartet appeared together at a private party at Berns Salonger in Stockholm, which was held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Andersson and Ulvaeus's first meeting. Greatest Hits Vol. [84][85], "Mamma Mia" was released as one of the first few non-premium song selections for the online RPG game Bandmaster. Bennys the richest of the group - reportedly worth 100million. How old are ABBA members? The iconic group, which was formed in 1972 by Agnetha Fltskog, Bjrn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, are one of the most popular bands in history. [86][87] In January 2012, Universal Music announced the re-release of ABBA's final album The Visitors, featuring a previously unheard track "From a Twinkling Star to a Passing Angel".[88]. New songwriting and recording sessions took place,[63] and during October and December, they released the singles "The Day Before You Came"/"Cassandra" and "Under Attack"/"You Owe Me One", the A-sides of which were included on the compilation album. [130], In May 2022, after the premiere of ABBA Voyage, Andersson stated in an interview with Variety that "nothing is going to happen after this", confirming the residency as ABBA's final group collaboration. ", "Making Sweet Music: 15 Groups With Famous Relationships", "thank abba for the music | full Official Chart History", Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough), Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest, World Music Award for Best Selling Scandinavian Artist, Mamma Mia! "The voices of the band, Agnetha's high sauciness combined with round, rich lower tones of Anni-Frid, were excellentTechnically perfect, melodically correct and always in perfect pitchThe soft lower voice of Anni-Frid and the high, edgy vocals of Agnetha were stunning", raved Edmonton Journal. "Under Attack", the group's final release before disbanding, was a Top 5 hit in the Netherlands and Belgium. "Lay All Your Love on Me" was ABBA's fourth number-one single on a Billboard chart, topping the Hot Dance Club Play chart. Despite a number of requests from fans, Ulvaeus and Andersson are still refusing to release ABBA's version of "Just Like That" in its entirety, even though the complete version has surfaced on bootlegs. Bjorn lives in Sweden with Lena, his wife of 35 years, and is believed to be worth at least 90million. It set a record for the most pre-orders ever received for a UK album after one million copies were ordered before release. [60] Nonetheless, the media continued to confront them with this in interviews. [124] "Don't Shut Me Down" became the first ABBA release since October 1978 to top the singles chart in Sweden. The Color Committee will be appointed by the ABBA President and will serve for the full show year. Lyngstad, who had recently moved to Paris, participated in the French version, and recorded a single, "Belle", a duet with French singer Daniel Balavoine. In the 1970s it dominated the European charts with its catchy pop songs. [48] Bjrn Ulvaeus later said that "If you look at the singles we released straight after Waterloo, we were trying to be more like The Sweet, a semi-glam rock group, which was stupid because we were always a pop group."[49]. The second single from the album, "Super Trouper", also hit number-one in the UK, becoming the group's ninth and final UK chart-topper. [83] On 27 January 2010, ABBAWORLD, a 25-room touring exhibition featuring interactive and audiovisual activities, debuted at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London. The group's first album, The ABBA Generation, consisting solely of ABBA covers reimagined as 1990s pop songs, was a worldwide success and so were subsequent albums. The Beginning. Before her ABBA days, Lyngstad married Ragnar Fredriksson in April 1964, before they divorced in 1970. ABBA wasn't as huge in America because they were Europop and Americans usually don't like that. On 15 November 2011, Ubisoft released a dancing game called ABBA: You Can Dance for the Wii. Their first two albums -- 1977's Foreigner and 1978's Double Vision -- were a double shot of exceedingly catchy songs and slick production . [42], Their official logo, distinct with the backward "B," was designed by Rune Sderqvist, who designed most of ABBA's record sleeves. grossing some $2billion since its debut. The PS2 version features 20 ABBA songs, while 25 songs feature on the PS3 version. Also released in the United States was the title track of The Visitors, which hit the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Also in 1976, the group received its first international prize, with "Fernando" being chosen as the "Best Studio Recording of 1975". In 1973, Stig Anderson, tired of unwieldy names, started to refer to the group privately and publicly as ABBA (a palindrome). Young, exuberant, full of energy and ambition. After this, the duo penned the global hit Mamma Mia! "Chiquitita", which was featured in the Music for UNICEF Concert after which ABBA decided to donate half of the royalties from the song to UNICEF, topped the singles charts in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Mexico, South Africa, Rhodesia and New Zealand, rose to number two in Sweden, and made the Top 5 in Germany, Austria, Norway and Australia, although it only reached number 29 in the US. However, on 3 January 2011, Fltskog, long considered to be the most reclusive member of the group and a major obstacle to any reunion, raised the possibility of reuniting for a one-off engagement. Lyngstad toured and performed regularly in the folkpark circuit and made appearances on radio and TV. The success of the group in the United States had until that time been limited to single releases. Ulvaeus stated that he wanted the band to be remembered as they were during the peak years of their success.[80]. This single has become a sought-after collectable. [21] The Hep Stars were known as "the Swedish Beatles". Abba's Agnetha 'not a recluse'. Trupa este format din muzicienii Benny Andersson i Bjrn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad i Agnetha Fltskog. [27], An attempt at combining their talents occurred in April 1970 when the two couples went on holiday together to the island of Cyprus. In 1977, Arrival was nominated for the inaugural BRIT Award in the category "Best International Album of the Year". In Frida The DVD, Lyngstad explains how she and Fltskog developed as singers, as ABBA's recordings grew more complex over the years. He has been with the band since its creation in 1968. In 2005, all four members of ABBA appeared at the Stockholm premiere of the musical Mamma Mia!. I remember Robert Plant saying Led Zeppelin were a cover band now because they cover all their own stuff. Stig Anderson was the manager of the Hootenanny Singers and founder of the Polar Music label. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were. . In Canada, the three songs rose to number 12, nine and 18, respectively. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. During the band's heyday, the highest album chart position they had ever achieved in America was number 14. Having met during their twenties the band soon became. Andersson has on several occasions performed ABBA songs. But after just under 10 years of world-dominating hits, ABBA called it a day in 1983, a couple of years after both couples had split. This tour was the last "on the road" adventure of their career. The ABBA story began in Sweden, more than five decades ago. Andersson frequently adds an ABBA song to the playlist when he performs with his BAO band. After Universal Music purchased PolyGram (and, thus, ABBA's label Polar Music International), control of the group's catalogue returned to Stockholm. These include Rutger Gunnarsson (19721982) bass guitar and string arrangements, Ola Brunkert (19721981) drums, Mike Watson (19721980) bass guitar, Janne Schaffer (19721982) lead electric guitar, Roger Palm (19721979) drums, Malando Gassama (19731979) percussion, Lasse Wellander (19742021) lead electric guitar, Anders Eljas (1977) keyboards and all the band's orchestration,[146] and Per Lindvall (19802021) drums. On 13 September 1979, ABBA began ABBA: The Tour at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Canada, with a full house of 14,000. The Visitors, ABBA's eighth studio album, showed a songwriting maturity and depth of feeling distinctly lacking from their earlier recordings but still placing the band squarely in the pop genre, with catchy tunes and harmonies. [98][99] In January 2019, it was revealed that neither song would be released before the summer. The tour ended with a show in Toronto, Canada at Maple Leaf Gardens before a capacity crowd of 18,000. Fltskog and Ulvaeus, now married, started performing together with Andersson on a regular basis at the Swedish folkparks in the middle of 1971. Two broken marriages, a horrific road traffic accident in 1983, her mums suicide in 1994 and being targeted by stalkers caused her to step away from the limelight. She married Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss von Plauen in 1992, but he died of lymphoma in 1999 aged just 49 a year after she tragically lost her daughter Lise-Lotte in a car crash. Along with her own compositions, she recorded covers of foreign hits and performed them on tours in Swedish folkparks. Per AllMusic, Benny Andersson was a member of the Hep Stars, the "Beatles" of mid- to late-1960s Sweden with 20 Top 20 hits and nine chart-toppers.Benny met Bjrn Ulvaeus when the Hep Stars played a party with Bjrn's band, the Hootenanny Singers, and the two men started writing songs. The four members of ABBA Benny Andersson, Anni . "Hej, gamle man", a song about an old Salvation Army soldier, became the quartet's first hit. Together, the awesome foursome have a net worth of more than $1 billion, with each member's fortune estimated at between $200 million and $300 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. When Benny Andersson started to produce her recordings in 1971, she had her first number-one single, "Min egen stad" ("My Own Town"), written by Benny and featuring all the future ABBA members on backing vocals. Stig Anderson released it as a single, credited to Bjrn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. They have been working together since 1972, when they were in their twenties. Between 1989 and 2004 she withdrew from public life. [45], "Waterloo" was ABBA's first major hit in numerous countries, becoming their first number-one single in nine western and northern European countries, including the big markets of the UK and West Germany, and in South Africa. Both records debuted on the UK chart within one week of each other. With sales of 30 million,[72] Gold is the best-selling ABBA album, as well as one of the best-selling albums worldwide. ABBA is a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fltskog, Bjrn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. Later, as their success grew, they used professional theatrical clothes designer Owe Sandstrm together with tailor Lars Wigenius with Lyngstad continuing to suggest ideas whilst co-ordinating the outfits with concert set designs. [54] The drop in sales in Australia was felt to be inevitable by industry observers as an "Abba-Fever" that had existed there for almost three years could only last so long as adolescents would naturally begin to move away from a group so deified by both their parents and grandparents.[55]. Their reunion tour was highly anticipated and will run from May 27 to December 4, 2022. On 19 November 1982, ABBA appeared for the last time in Sweden on the TV programme Njesmaskinen, and on 11 December 1982, they made their last performance ever, transmitted to the UK on Noel Edmonds' The Late, Late Breakfast Show,[65] through a live link from a TV studio in Stockholm. "People Need Love" was released in June 1972, featuring guest vocals by the women, who were now given much greater prominence. In September, he stated in an interview that there were now five new ABBA songs[101] to be released in 2020. The couple had two children - Hans and Ann Lise-Lotte. When Agnetha Fltskog gave birth to her daughter Linda in 1973,[21] she was replaced for a short period by Inger Brundin on a trip to West Germany. "[129] The fourth single from the album, "Little Things", was released on 3 December. [126][127] However, in an interview with BBC Radio 2 on 11 November, Lyngstad stated "don't be too sure" that Voyage is the final ABBA album. In Adelaide, the group performed one concert at Football Park in front of 20,000 people, with another 10,000 listening outside. married women, A Level students, males over the age of 40 who enjoy playing golf. Gimme! Net Worth in 2023: $220 million. Hans, now 58, followed his mother into the music business, and is now a songwriter and producer. The Party in Stockholm. ABBA first got together in 1972, and the lineup has always consisted of Bjrn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fltskog, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The album topped the charts across Europe and in Japan and Mexico, hit the Top 10 in Canada and Australia and the Top 20 in the US. In May 1984, Lyngstad performed "I Have a Dream" with a children's choir at the United Nations Organisation Gala, in Geneva, Switzerland. "The Name of the Game" was a number two hit in the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden while also making the Top 5 in Finland, Norway, New Zealand and Australia, while only peaking at numbers 10, 12 and 15 in Mexico, the US and Canada. In January 1981, Ulvaeus married Lena Kllersj, and manager Stig Anderson celebrated his 50th birthday with a party. While Andersson and Ulvaeus were working on the musical, a further co-operation among the three of them came with the musical Abbacadabra that was produced in France for television. - In an ideal world, a study would include all members of a target population as this would provide the most accurate results. In June 1992, he and Ulvaeus appeared with U2 at a Stockholm concert, singing the chorus of "Dancing Queen", and a few years later during the final performance of the B & B in Concert in Stockholm, Andersson joined the cast for an encore at the piano. The album's only major single release, "One of Us", proved to be the last of ABBA's nine number-one singles in Germany, this being in December 1981; and the swansong of their sixteen Top 5 singles on the South African chart. movie on 4 July 2008. It should . Recording sessions for the single "Summer Night City" were an uphill struggle,[57] but upon release the song became another hit for the group. ABBA is undoubtedly one of the greatest music groups of all time. A track from the album, "When All Is Said and Done", was released as a single in North America, Australia and New Zealand, and fittingly became ABBA's final Top 40 hit in the US (debuting on the US charts on 31 December 1981), while also reaching the US Adult Contemporary Top 10, and number-four on the RPM Adult Contemporary chart in Canada. ABBA (/b/ AB-, Swedish:[ba], formerly named Bjrn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Bjrn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fltskog, Bjrn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. ABBA was a very popular Swedish performing group during the 1970s and the early 1980s. Gimme!" They won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with their smash hit Waterloo before going on to enjoy worldwide success. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. After the pictures were made, Heilemann found out that Benny Andersson reversed his letter "B;" this prompted discussions about the mirrored "B," and the members of ABBA agreed on the mirrored letter. At the time of their engagement, Ulvaeus was working with a songwriter named Benny Andersson. [120][121] Fltskog stated that the Voyage album and tour are likely to be their last. Hanser was a long-time friend of all four, and also former secretary of Stig Anderson. [73] More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits, a follow-up to Gold, was released in 1993. It topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, ABBA's first American number-one single on any chart. ABBA Oro: Grandes xitos, the Spanish equivalent of ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits, was released in 1999. The pair won an Ivor Novello Award in 2008. REUNITED Swedish pop sensation ABBA are heading on tour this month - or at least their holographic younger selves are. [9] The project would feature the members in their "life-like" avatar form, called ABBAtars, based on their late 1970s tour and would be set to launch by the spring of 2019. #616 He began studying guitar at the age of 10, voice at the age of 14 and piano at the age . The members of ABBA were married as follows: Agnetha Fltskog and Bjrn Ulvaeus from 1971 to 1979: Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad from 1978 to 1981. [145] For their subsequent marriages, see their articles. Their final public performance together as ABBA before their 2016 reunion was on the British TV programme The Late, Late Breakfast Show (live from Stockholm) on 11 December 1982. It was only the second time all of them had appeared together in public since 1986. On 22 January 2009, Fltskog and Lyngstad appeared together on stage to receive the Swedish music award "Rockbjrnen" (for "lifetime achievement"). Here's all you need to know. Between 1967 and 1975, Fltskog released five studio albums. They certainly do not need the money, so Swedish pop group Abba 's comeback may actually be all about the music. A second 12-track album was released in 1999, titled ABBAmania, with proceeds going to the Youth Music charity in England. The relationship changes were reflected in the group's music, with later compositions featuring darker and more introspective lyrics. On 17 May 2011, "Gimme! Playing six nights a week, it will feature digital versions of Abba's band members, accompanied by a 10 . In June 2017, a blue plaque outside Brighton Dome was set to commemorate their 1974 Eurovision win. They both went on to remarry after ABBA, Benny remarried and had a son, while Bjorn had two daughters. [21] He saw potential in the collaboration, and encouraged them to write more. Bjrn was a member of the Hootenanny Singers, a very popular folk music group, while Benny played keyboards in Sweden's biggest pop group of the 1960s, The Hep Stars. [125] In October 2021, the third single "Just a Notion" was released, and it was announced that ABBA would split for good after the release of Voyage. With her he has Linda. The Australian tour and its subsequent ABBA: The Movie produced some ABBA lore, as well. By Lia Beck August 4, 2022 Jorgen Angel/Redferns via Getty Images It's been 50 years, and ABBA is still at it. Having met during their twenties the band soon became. On 20 January 2016, all four members of ABBA made a public appearance at Mamma Mia! Except for a TV appearance in 1986, the foursome did not come together publicly again until they were reunited at the Swedish premiere of the Mamma Mia! The musical "Mamma Mia" and later in "Mamma Mia! 2 went to number one in the UK, Belgium, Canada and Japan while making the Top 5 in several other countries, but only reaching number 20 in Australia and number 46 in the US. The outfits for the show, which their "Abbatars" will wear, have been designed by Dolce & Gabbana. Lyngstad released several schlager style singles on EMI with mixed success. The group performed eleven concerts to full houses, including six shows at Tokyo's Budokan. [105] In July 2020, Ulvaeus revealed that the release of the new ABBA recordings had been delayed until 2021. He also played the piano during new recordings of the ABBA songs "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room" with opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter, and "When All Is Said and Done" with Swede Viktoria Tolstoy. Agnetha. She is best known as a member of the pop group ABBA, which sold more than 400 million copies of music albums and singles worldwide. Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad (born 15 November 1945 in Bjrksen in Ballangen, Norway) sang from the age of 13 with various dance bands, and worked mainly in a jazz-oriented cabaret style. Their partners were often present in the recording studio, and sometimes added backing vocals; Fltskog even co-wrote a song with the two. Gimme! Hundreds of visual effects artists then worked on the show for two years, led by the London branch of Industrial Light & Magic, a visual effects company founded by George Lucas. Kerry Katona seen with bright pink hair as she runs errands in 200,000 Lamborghini in Cheshire, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). The record was credited to Bjrn & Benny and reached number five on the sales charts and number one on Svensktoppen, staying on the latter chart (which was not a chart linked to sales or airplay) for 15 weeks. 2. 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