ABBA Voyage: General Discussion 2021 Sept - Dec

i liked the song on first listen and i liked the children's choir at the end. I guess people like me were what ABBA were targetting. but i wont buy the single since i already have the song on the album.

1 ABBA 28.3k
2 Taylor 27.2k
3 Little Mix 26.7k
4 Ed Sheeran 19.4K
5 Rod 15.5k
6 Wanted
7 Idles
8 Damon
9 Kylie
10 Silk Sonic

Tuesday’s midweeks

With ABBA in video, singing round the piano (like the still from the album.) ABBA transfer into their younger selves, and continue the song, even seeing them opening gifts together like a scene from The Name Of The Game video, it may just pull at enough heart strings.

Interesting - so Voyage has overtaken Swift and Little Mix since yesterday.
That's mainly because it's picking up a lot more airplay than the other two (which is what fuels album sales).
Sheeran is 9k behind. I reckon he will close the gap (due to mass airplay with 3 current top-10 songs) but probably not by enough to deny Abba a second week at the top. 
In my optimistic (or perhaps delusional!) view, the more Voyage succeeds the more likely we are to have further new material.

So Long is about to lose its status as ABBA’s worst-ever single!

I can’t argue with you there, as I don’t disagree, but I don’t really see the purpose of putting either of them onto a new studio album unless they’re there for another reason.

Does anyone still think that this really is it? No more ABBA, and that Little Things will be their last new single? I’d hope this isn’t the end. One more, brand new, epic single, announced as their last, swiftly followed by a deluxe edition of the album with a few more additional tracks. I’m not convinced these aren’t in the can already, but obviously it will be announced as a surprise. No one will be giving anything away in the meantime.

Two unfinished tracks may remain so (or not). This epic single will have been held back from the main album this time, but will be a permanent addition.

johnny,What??? Clearly somebody who likes just the uptempo ABBA songs.

I like slow songs for example My Love, My Life (1976).
My album ratings.
1.Voulez vous
2.Arrival
3.Abba
4.Super trouper
5.Waterloo
6.Album
7.Ring, ring
8.Vistors
9.Voyage.


It is true that I prefer letters in the major scale.
Electric violins in the style of the 70's, which appeared in the Silver Convention group.
I generally like American music from the 50's to the 90's.
For his ingenuity, singing and instrumental qualities.
Of course, British music is also very good, there is no doubt about that.
I like the Abba group to start a quality European disco.


Despite the fact that overall I don't rate Abba's last album well, I'm still glad that they recorded this album.
Like Agnetha's album after the breakup of Abba (Wrap Your Arms Around Me and the last abum A), Agnetha has a unique voice color. She had good-sounding high tones.

paulman2, haven’t you posted that same post already? It looks very familiar. Looks like you deleted the previous one, but it’s not great forum etiquette to repeat yourself verbatim as though it’s a new post and delete a previous one (especially if others have quoted your previous post or replied to it).

This forgotten song from Benny from 2009 has a second verse at a good level.

Little Things..

I love the diversity of thoughts.. Love, Hate ,Indifferent, its the way it should be , we don't have to like everything that they put out, there are still tracks i don't bother with...

Lets be honest , LT is surgery sweet , twee all those words, but it does work to a point.. I hoping the the video will be something of interest. I'm intrigued.

In a funny sort of way i'm more interested in that video than the track, I'm sure that will come into its own once the Christmas season starts, which is around 3rd December day of release.

At the moment with out the full package Ill say I'm indifferent.....

I'll certainly buy it even though I'm not really in to Christmas songs (I've never bought one before), not sure any other single would have potential to get in to the top 100 now. A video, if true, shown on TV, will give it a big boost, this all makes perfect sense as the song, along with a lovely video, can be televised every year, which will also not only draw people's attention to the album again (not just Voyage but also Gold), but remind people of the abbatar concerts! I've been listening to it quite a few times over the last couple of days and, yes, it is 'twee/sweet', but Frida and Agnetha sound great, which for me, saves it! I agree Alan, HNY and LT would make a great pairing every year, don't really see why they haven't done it now to be honest.

Great news on the mid week charts!

Yes, diversity of opinion is a good thing. In the case of LT I feel it is mainly negative about the song. Any positive is about a potential video.

There's quite a few "marmite" songs on Voyage 😃

I have just caught up with the news about LT being a UK single. I can't say I greet this news with a great deal of enthusiasm. I've nothing against the song for what it is, but I don't think it deserved a place on the "Voyage" album and I am horrified at the prospect of this song being ABBA's last ever single. I would have preferred to see it released as a B-side or a double-A-side with another song from "Voyage". But I dare say the decision to release LT as a single was made well before the popularity of WYDWM was realised - those two songs on one single would have been a nice Christmas package.

I dare say LT may help promote the "Voyage" album up until Christmas (but will probably also put some people off). Beyond that, I don't think it will have much impact - certainly not on the Singles chart - although, as someone pointed out, its popularity may build year-by-year and it could eventually make Christmas compilations, such as NOW Christmas (HNY is already on it - the final track).

I do hope they're not going to release it every Christmas on different coloured vinyl à la HNY and have the fans buy it over and over again. If they have any such intentions, I would prefer it to be paired with HNY on one single.

Regarding "So Long", this may have been ABBA's worst-performing single in the UK but it wasn't their worst single - not in my book. And we don't even know SL was their worst-performing. It didn't make the Top 50 but it may have bettered the No 59 position of JAN. In the mid-70s when the Top 50 was the full chart, they did publish 10 'Bubblers' - they were the ten singles just below the Top 50 (excluding those that had just left). It would be interesting to know whether SL made the Bubblers.

I should add that despite my reservations about the choice of song for this single, I will buy it, of course. HMV are offering it for £3.99 plus £2 postage. It was HMV that got all formats of "Voyage" to me on the day of release, so I've decided that they deserve my custom for this single.