ABBA in the UK Charts, regular updates, etc.

  Gazman -- 'Voulez-Vous' was at No.54 in the UK's Monday Mid Week's, but it may not even be in the Top 100 by Friday.
  The 'Half-Speed' + Vinyl 'Arrival' reached No.94 last August. 'The Album' re-issues were unable to get that Album back
  into the UK Top 100.

  In April 2012 'The Visitors' Deluxe reached No.62, but that was really because it had a New 'Track' on it. That was as high
  as No.22 in the Monday Mid Week's, but it fell 40 places by the end of that Week.

  The reason why 'Gold' was at No.27 in the Monday Mid Week's is because HMV are selling 2,000 Gold Vinyl copies this Week.
  Added to its usual Weekly UK Sales, we see it back in the Top 30.

  At present 'Gold' is No.15 in the UK iTunes Top 100. I've no idea why it has risen in that Chart, as nothing is really happening
  as regards ABBA and their 'Plans'...

Onlyabba4me said - 'The 'Half-Speed' + Vinyl 'Arrival' reached No.94 last August'.

Actually, it wasn't any vinyl version of 'Arrival' that was the main driver for the album to re-enter the charts - it was sales of the 2001 remastered CD and download equivalents, off the back of the launch of 'Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.'

ABBA GOLD is indeed at number 27 in the Top 100 UK album chart this week...…

Regarding the re-issued singles, 'Voulez-Vous' makes it to number 1 on both the Vinyl and Physical Singles chart, and number 65 on the Sales Singles chart. 

All the other re-issued singles make the top 10 of the Vinyl and Physical Singles chart.

'Voulez-Vous' has therefore clearly benefitted from being released in 2 different formats ('regular' and 'extended').  

The sales of the 2 'Voulez-Vous' singles will have been combined - just like a 7 inch and 12 inch version 'back in the day'! :-)

'ABBA Gold' is Ireland's 20th Best Selling Album for 2019 - so far.

The Countries where it Charts every Week are the UK, Ireland, Austria and Switzerland.

(I mean in the Main Album Charts).

It Charts now and then in Germany, Belgium, the USA and Australia. However, it usually tends
to stay in the 'Catalogue' Charts of those Countries. (Except for Belgium, which seems to have
closed down its 2 Catalogue Album Charts - Flemish and Wallonia. So 'Gold' just gets into the
Main Album Charts there now).

So far in 2019 - to W/E 11th July - 'ABBA Gold' has sold about 65,670 UK copies.

It will soon become the only Album to reach 900 UK Top 100 Weeks.

It is also is not far off becoming the first Artist Album to manage 300 Top 40 Weeks, in the UK.

If it manages 300 Top 40 Weeks, it becomes only the 3rd Album to do it. The other 2 were both
Musicals - 'The Sound Of Music', (1965 - 347 Weeks), and 'South Pacific', (1958 - 315 Weeks).

'ABBA Gold' is 2nd, as regards 'The Most Top 75 Weeks'. It has 618 Top 75 Weeks, beaten by the
641 Top 75 Weeks of 'Legend' by Bob Marley & The Wailers, (1984). I doubt if ABBA can over-take
it, as 'Legend' is always in the Top 75 - as is 'ABBA Gold'...(However ABBA did manage to get past
'Greatest Hits', (One), by Queen, which is now in 3rd place, with 598 Top 75 Weeks).

I don’t even have to click the link as the “double” gives it away!

All of them were number one at the same time as their respective albums (Greatest Hits, Arrival, The Album and Super Trouper) for at least one week.

Of the four, Super Trouper is unique in being the title of both single and album. I wonder how many times that’s been achieved in chart history? Madonna’s Like A Prayer, David Bowie’s Let’s Dance. I bet it hasn’t been achieved that often, and these days even less so as acts don’t tend to have albums with title tracks anymore.

Even back in the '70s, many of Elton John's albums, such as Rock of the Westies, Caribou, and Captain Fantastic, didn't have a title track.

  As Graham has pointed out - Gold' has now become the 1st Album to reach 900 Top 100 Weeks in the UK.

  I wonder how many of us will still be alive when 'Gold' finally ceases Charting in the UK? Or will the Charts
 end first, due to World War III, or something?...

 Note  -- 'Rumours' was knocked off the No.1 spot by 'The Album' in 1978. The ABBA Album went on to spend
 7 Weeks at No.1. However, as the Years went by, 'Rumours' outsold it by more than 3 to 1 in the UK.

  I've created this Post about it:

  
ALBUMS WITH THE MOST WEEKS IN THE UK TOP 100


01)... ABBA Gold -- ABBA -- (1992) -- (No.1 Album - 8 Weeks) -- 900 Weeks

02)... Legend -- Bob Marley & The Wailers -- (1984) -- (No.1 Album - 12 Weeks) -- 888 Weeks

03)... Greatest Hits (One) -- Queen -- (1981) -- (No.1 Album - 4 Weeks) -- 867 Weeks

04)... Rumours -- Fleetwood Mac -- (1977) -- (No.1 Album - 1 Week) -- 795 Weeks

05)... The Dark Side of The Moon -- Pink Floyd -- (1973) -- (No.2 Album) -- 534 Weeks

06)... Bat Out Of Hell -- Meat Loaf -- (1977) -- (No.9 Album) -- 522 Weeks

07)... Number Ones -- Michael Jackson -- (2003) -- (No.1 Album - 2 Weeks) -- 406 Weeks

08)... (What's The Story) Morning Glory? -- Oasis -- (1995) -- (No.1 Album - 10 Weeks) -- 395 Weeks

09)... + -- Ed Sheeran -- (2011) -- (No.1 Album - 3 Weeks) -- 380 Weeks

10)... The Sound Of Music (OST) -- Various Artists -- (1965) -- (No.1 Album - 70 Weeks) -- 374 Weeks

11)... Curtain Call - The Hits -- Eminem -- (2005) -- (No.1 Album - 5 Weeks) -- 368 Weeks

12)... The Very Best Of -- Fleetwood Mac -- (2002) -- (No.6 Album) -- 360 Weeks

13)... Back To Black -- Amy Winehouse -- (2006) -- (No.1 Album - 6 Weeks) -- 343 Weeks -- @@@

14)... The Immaculate Collection -- Madonna -- (1990) -- (No.1 Album - 9 Weeks) -- 341 Weeks

15)... Greatest Hits -- Simon & Garfunkel -- (1972) -- (No.2 Album) -- 332 Weeks

16)... Nevermind -- Nirvana -- (1991) -- (No.5 Album) -- 331 Weeks

17)... Bridge Over Troubled Water -- Simon & Garfunkel -- (1970) -- (No.1 Album - 33 Weeks) -- 329 Weeks


@@@ = Excluding the 1 No.1 Week and 55 Top 100 Weeks of the 2007 'Deluxe' Edition.

Rumours’ achievements are quite incredible. It is far and away the longest-running studio album in the UK charts. And it’s well deserved. It’s a great album. Tracks like Go Your Own Way, Songbird and You Make Loving Fun are pretty much perfect pop. It’s a shame, though, that there are no other albums in Fleetwood Mac’s catalogue that compare with it.

'Rumours' was the UK's 13th Best Selling Album of the 1970's. It has now outsold
all of the 12 Albums, that were above it, at the end of that Decade. It is still in the
UK Charts as I type - No.36. It only spent 1 Week at No.1 in the UK. It has spent almost
800 Weeks in the UK Top 100 and is 13 times Platinum. 'Tango In The Night' is their
2nd biggest UK Album. It was 5th for 1987 and 7th for 1988, as well as in 7th place
for the entire Decade. Oddly, it was not very big in the USA - stalling at No.7, to
its 5 UK No.1 Weeks and 38 UK Top 10 Weeks. It is 8 times Platinum in the UK - the same
as 'Greatest Hits' by ABBA. (1976). Their 3rd biggest UK Album has never quite made
the Top 5. It is 'The Very Best Of' from 2002. That has never been above No.6, but it
has spent 360 Weeks in the Top 100 and is 6 times Platinum, for UK Sales above 1,800,000.
'Tusk' was a 1 Week No.1 in 1979, but not a big UK Seller. It was only in the Charts for
27 Weeks...

Here is the Link to The Official UK Charts Company's Article about 'ABBA Gold' being the UK's
'Most Charted Top 100 Album'. (Dated Thursday 8th August).

  link


 NOTE -- It is almost time for 'ABBA Gold's next 'All Time UK Chart Record'. At the start of 2019,
 I was not sure if it would reach the next one, but now I think that it will. Only a few Weeks to go...

Well, they should reach the statistic of 1,200 weeks in the UK Album Chart Top 75 next week - but is that the fact you were referring to? 

If not - what was it? 

    One of the reasons why I ceased Donating to 'Keep Wikipedia Alive', is because it is terribly inaccurate, in many of its 'Facts'.

    JJ -- They have ABBA as the 25th 'Best Selling Music Act', based on 100 Million to 150 million Sales.

   It is far too low. To have 100 Million Sales, ABBA would have to lose about 30 Million Album Sales and all of their Singles Sales.
   We'd remove the 30 Million ABBA Albums by simply taking away 'Gold's Sales, and pretending that it never existed...
  
   They have sold around 130 Million Albums and 70 Million to 80 Million Singles. by 1981 their Singles Sales were over 70 Million.
   You then have to add in their Download and Streaming Singles Sales...

   If their Record Sales were 150 Million, they'd have their 130 Million Album Sales and just 20 Million Singles Sales. Such ABBA
   Singles Sales are far too low, when 'Fernando' and 'Dancing Queen' alone sold a combined 12 Million on 7 Inch Vinyl.

   The Chart Masters Site has ABBA as the World's 19th Best Selling Music Act. They give them 156,623,000 Sales to November 2016.
   But, even they lower ABBA's Singles Sales by a great many. They remove an awful lot of ABBA's Singles Sales.

   Somehow, Chart Masters have Metallica as the World's 18th Best Selling Music Act - just above ABBA! According to Chart Masters,
   Metallica have been a bigger Global Act than ABBA, with 156,752,000 Sales, to February 2019. Another Act who mainly sell Albums.
   How they can have outsold ABBA I'll never know, as I've yet to see a Chart that they dominate, for more than a Week or 2...

   Chart Masters say that Queen are the World's 5th Best Selling Act, with 238,637,000 Sales to October 2017. The Rolling Stones are
   much higher than their 16th place via Wikipedia. They are the World's 6th Best Selling Act on Chart Masters - 237,135,000 Sales to
   December 2016.  

   It is interesting that a lot of Acts, who mostly sold Albums, are given bigger Record Sales than ABBA - such as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd,
   The Eagles, AC/DC and Garth Brooks. I'm not at all sure that all of those Acts did outsell ABBA. Garth Brooks sold most of his 160 Million
   Albums in the USA - 148 Million of them. The rest of the Acts, that I've Listed, were mostly Album Sellers, but the claim is that they sold
   so many Albums, that it was more than ABBA's Singles & Albums Sales added together...

   You can tell how many Singles ABBA sold by their huge impact in the Euro Parade Charts. Those Charts were compiled by combining the
   Singles Charts of many European Countries. To reach No.1 in them you had to be reaching the Top 10 or Top 5 all over Europe. ABBA
   had 17 No.1 Hits in that Chart. Only The Beatles had more. Madonna equalled ABBA's 17 No.1's. For all the claims of Queen being 
   bigger than ABBA, they only had 4 No'1's in the Euro Chart. That was 1 in 1978, 1 in 1981 and 2 in 1984. (Their biggest World Hit
   was 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. It never quite reached No.1 in the Euro Chart, but it did stay in it for longer than any other Queen Single).

  In the Global Chart ABBA had 6 No.1's - 'Waterloo', 'SOS', 'Fernando', 'Dancing Queen', 'Money, Money, Money' & 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'.
  Queen never had any Global Chart No.1's. They had 4 Global No.2 Hits - 'Bohemian Rhapsody', (1976), 'We Will Rock You', (1978), 'Crazy
  Little Thing Called Love', (1980), and 'Another One Bites The Dust', (1980). ABBA had 16 Global Top 10 Singles, to Queen's 14. So, even if
  ABBA didn't sell more Global Albums than Queen, they certainly outsold them in Singles...

  Link To The World's Best Selling Music Artists - Chart Master's Site:

 chartmasters.org/2017/10/best-selling-artists-albums-and-singles-of-all-time/18/