What songs would you ADD to the Voyage Concert?

" When I Kissed The Teacher " and " Angeleyes " definitely.

You didn't vote for them.

If they did the motion-capture to any non-single tracks, I think IIWFTN is the most likely to have been done, especially as the ABBA Voyage liveband are itching to do it - unless they were all massive fans, how would they have known that track unless it's been trialled for possible future inclusion?

^Not sure the verses and chorus gel. But it's quite good...😀

The Name of the Game is one of my favourite ABBA songs - and favourite from this list. I didn't chose it. As Alan said it's not popular and I feel wouldn't fit in. The Day Before You Came certainly would not be a good choice for similar reasons

Hometime makes a good point about replacing Eagle with The Name of the Game.

The concert does sag a bit in for some of the lesser known songs. The answer I think is to introduce well known uptempo songs rather than replacing the deep cuts. An extra 12 minutes or so wouldn't make the show overly long.

As much as we would like to see more songs added to " The Voyage Concert " I don't think any additions will be made. I don't see it happening. And yes I am the same person posting. " Eddie " or " Ed ". As regards to my post above I would like to clarify I don't own a mobile ( I am very adverse to mobiles etc ) so I wouldn't even have a clue how to vote for the extra songs. Even so please allow me to feel welcome to join in.

I’m starting to think along those lines. Everyone talks about setlist changes as though it’s easy, like a “normal” live band just swapping one song for another.

We don’t have the figures for how much just one ABBATar performance costs, do we? How much time and resources went into it, let alone the financial side. Yes, so ABBA did perform more songs in those motion-capture outfits, but I would suspect that, once the songs were chosen, no further work was done on the others. And you do have to wonder if it was more ambitious than their thought at the start. If the cartoon sequences aren’t there to allow the generators to cool, then could it be to pad it out? That the cost of creating more sequences with the ‘Tars was just too great?

And if they aren’t even near breaking even, why would they even think of spending more money? If they seriously start to struggle to sell tickets then it’s an option, but I doubt it’s under consideration. And even a second venue - the costs of that alone would be huge, so again, why waste more creating sequences for other songs?

And why haven’t we seen other acts do this? I know some have talked about it but two years on it still hasn’t happened. ABBA have the mass appeal which other acts don’t, but that alone can’t be the reason. Could it be that the Voyage project was one massive gamble that’s still a long way from being paid off?

Of course, I’ll be eating my words/hat if it comes to fruition. And it’s fun to speculate/have wishlists. However, Voyage is not a normal live concert. Changing it is surely not as easy as many seem to think.

Super trooper. One of us. Take a chance on me Money money money The name of the game

^ Dancing Queen is in the show.

That list is Combined - original.sales plus downloads and streams

www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/abbas-official-top-20-biggest-songs__26113/

The top 5 are also top 5 Physical sales. The remainder of a Top 10 Original Sales list would have The Name of the Gane, Chiquitita, I Have a Dream and 2 from One of Us, Money Money Money and The Winner Takes it All. All certified gold for 500k sales - except TWTIA, which should have been certified.

For Streams/Downloads you'd have LAYLOM, DYMK SOS and VV in top 10 but not TNOTG, IHAD, One of Us, and probably KMKY or Fernando.

The top 10 sales from the UK in 70s/80s were from their heyday 1976.80 and included ballads and uptempo. Now the most popular songs, with the exception of The Winner Takes it All are all uptempo - a clear Mamma Mia! movie effect, I feel. And perhaps with Streaming you put uptempo songs more on repeat than slow songs.

Thanks for the clarification, johnny.

By the way - what happened to your national anthems thread? I was just about to comment. I’d say possibly not many people know enough of them to rank them. I know the UK one (though wish I didn’t - never mind the Queen/King, what about the other 67 million of us?) but apart from the US one, I’d struggle to recall any others.

For me the three additions that would benefit Voyage the most are:

Take A Chance On Me - By far the most surprising omission IMO, this uptempo track would sit PERFECTLY within the set list

Super Trouper - fits well with the concert theme and a great song besides

Angeleyes - UK bias showing here, but a fantastic song that could work nicely as a slower track.

^ Good choices

TACOM for sure. I also opted for ST - not because I am a fan but because it kinda fits in with the show

Better to add than replace songs imo.

I can't see why new songs can't be added. Would that be technically difficult or financially expensive?

I see nobody is using the sequencing argument in relation to costumes- that was always a weak point.

I've gone for 2/3 favourites .. TACOM and ST, as both belters and great singalongs in different ways...
I've also gone for Ring Ring, again for the above reasons, it's older so shows the development of the music, and would fit nicely , you can just see everyone doing the telephone dial movement,( well I can..lol but I've a good imagination).

Of course we would love to see many more, I can't argue against MMM for instance, I wouldn't be disappointed.
However reality seems to be a different thing, and as yet no set change ..why... I don't really get the cooling down bit, is that actually true ? The costume bit must already be factored in, as why do more tracks than needed... there must come a point when something will happen...

For me, if no immediate set change, then what I mooted about a year ago, let the live band have their say in doing another number or two, IIWFTN for instance, but that would be an add on, as otherwise how would Bjorns Abbatar introduce DYMK...
So again this would lengthen the show, which majority of the audience would love and perhaps help feel getting more for their money, all I can think of otherwise that there must be plans to change/ add, when that will be, is anyone's guess, you would've thought an " anniversary " would've been perfect... but hey....