ABBA Voyage: General Discussion 2022 May - Aug

  Bennybjorn -- ABBA actually have 8 Albums in the UK's Monday Mid Week Top 100 Chart!

  'Gold' is at No.11 in the UK's Monday Mid Week's. The Studio Albums Box Set has yet to reach the UK Top 100. But - surprisingly
- the individual ABBA Albums are each in the Mid Week Top 100! It does not mean that they will still be in the Top 100 in Friday's
Weekly Chart. We will see. 'Voulez-Vous' is in at No.37, 'Arrival' in at No.58, 'Super Trouper' in at No.59, 'The Visitors' in at No.71,
'Voyage' down from No.68 to No.72, 'Waterloo' in at No.93, and 'Ring Ring' in at No.97. So ABBA have 8 Albums in the Top 100,
with only 'ABBA' and 'The Album' missing.

NOTE  --  I'm now told that those ABBA Albums have re-entered the UK Top 100, due to their Picture Disks becoming available.
That 'ABBA' and 'The Album' have failed to re-enter because their Picture Disks have been delayed.

Link -- Below -- Today's UK Monday Mid Week Top 100 Albums...

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If and a big If, Ring Ring is still in the top 100 come Friday, it will actually be its first week ( probably last.) in the UK album charts.......
Probably only 3 will last the week, Gold (of course) Voulez Vous and Voyage, any more will be a bonus, depends if their sales are forward loaded and diminish as the week goes by...

Yes, down mainly to the picture discs. But an element of streaming too. Voulez Vous has a lot of hits on it and probably explains why it leads the pack on the older albums.


Foreverfan, it would be nice if Ring Ring could stay in the chart and have its first and only week in the chart. Production delays for ABBA and The Album.

Off topic again.. well probably..

Voulez Vous “ success “ along with being heavy in Voyage, picture disc, there’s Tik Tok and Angeleyes, apparently being played a lot, have all accumulated in it being so high , it’s jumped over 100 places this week to be at its mid week’s position...

Which version is VV , deluxe ?

Well spotted! That's quite a haul!
Interesting to see that Voyage has only slipped a little.

Backs up my theory that exposure of the two Voyage songs in the live show could keep the album just about in the top 100 going forward.

Anyone know how Gold was doing before the shows started?

Was it in the 20s and now in/around the top 10?

I was very sniffy about VV for a very long time. I was so disappointed in it, especially coming after The Album, which was and still is my favourite ABBA album. I hated KOF and TKHLHC. Now I love KOS, and even quite like TKHLHC. The Voulez Vous album is probably my third favourite now, esoecially with SNC and GGG added,with The Visitors at #2. I play it more now than I did back in the day.

If you mean the UK chart then no. Kate Bush had 11 albums in the chart in 2014 at the time of her Before The Dawn shows. In one week, all 11 were placed between numbers 6 and 49. I think David Bowie has done similar, certainly after his death but also at other points in his career. ABBA won’t be breaking any records.

The maximum they could hope for would be 8 as 2 of the picture discs have been delayed. Realistically most will have dropped out by Friday.

Indeed not, but it would need a song to be heard by the masses.

The Voyage campaign showed that the large majority of UK radio stations were simply not willing to play new Abba songs, regardless of their quality.

I think Catherine Bush's song features in a Netflix series (or similar). Abba would need to do likewise, or have a song in a successful and popular film.   

The alleged delay is a bit puzzling... Yes, ABBA The Album and ABBA both have the release date 1st July in the official store. Yet I received the full bundle today.


daronjulian, the reverse side of the picture discs feature the same pictures as the reverse side of the respective album sleeves but no text except for the name of the group and the album. The Voyage picture disc is the already released one. All of them look very nice, my favourites are Super Trouper and The Visitors.

I guess it doesn't need to be a single to be used in a TV show or movie and then shoot to the top of the charts. It could be an album track, such as "If It Wasn't For The Nights" or "The Visitors", or even a B-side, or a solo song such as "I Know There's Something Going On".

I have always said that 'Voulez Vous' is ABBA's best album its just fantastic my favourite songs from the 'Voulez Vous' album are 'As Good As New', 'Angeleyes', 'The King Has Lost His Crown', 'Kisses of Fire' & 'If It Wasn't For The Nights'.

I like the " Voyage " concert set list. I think it is quite impressive with the exception of " Does Your Mother Know " which I would replace with either " If It Wasn't For The Nights " or " Angeleyes ". Also, " Waterloo " and " Mamma Mia " could be substituted with " Take A Chance On Me " and " Super Trouper " on alternate concert evenings. I haven't seen the show yet but as " The ABBAtars are not performing " Eagle " ( shame ! ) then this song could be alternated with another track. I would have preferred the ABBA holograms to have performed the majestic " Eagle " but you can't have everything. Finally, I would change the encore to " Thank You For The Music ", " The Winner Takes It All " and lastly " Dancing Queen " in that order. Shall I submit my amendment of the concert set list to Bjorn and Benny ? " Dare Me " as The Pointer Sisters would say !

It’s a very good album. It’s not as good as Arrival or The Album, which are practically perfect in every way, but it’s quite amazing considering that Benny and Bjorn had writer’s block when they started it. Half the album (As Good As New, Angeleyes, If It Wasn’t For The Nights, Chiquitita and Kisses Of Fire) is excellent, but the other five songs are less great. It sounds more modern than the previous albums, which partly explains its current popularity.