The Singles: The First Ten Years (35th Anniversary)

I didn't know that Nina Pretty Ballerina or Hasta Manana were released as a singles

It would be great but it will sadly never happen. According to official sources Universal has no plans to re-release The Singles as updated version of this compilation is available (Essential Collection). And as for Just Like That, I'm afraid it won't be let out of the vaults as long as Benny is able to speak (to say NO). Recently he said it will be a cold day in hell before Just Like That is released....

What official sources do you mean and the reason it would be good to have a re-release of The Singles: The First Ten Years is due to the fact all their other albums got re-releases even Gracias Por La Musica got a Deluxe Edition.

Carl Magnus Palm once told me that Universal would not be re-issuing any further 'Anniversary'
Editions of ABBA 'Hits' Albums, from when they were together. That 'Greatest Hits', (2006), was
a one off, because Universal regarded it as the ABBA Album that truly made them huge Globally.
It sold over 7.5 Million Globally, which rises to around 11 Million when the very similar 'The Best
Of ABBA' has its Sales added to it. 'Greatest Hits' sold over 2,600,000 in the UK, which made it
the 7th All Time UK 'Hits' Album. It is now 8th, as 'Ladies And Gentlemen - The Best Of George
Michael', (1998), recently over-took it, after it got a Sales boost, after his 2016 death.

Universal feel that 'Greatest Hits Vol. 2' & 'The Singles - The First Ten Years', were more
than surpassed by 'The Definitive Collection' in 2001, which sold around 3,500,000 Globally.

They made the mistake of releasing an almost identical ABBA Compilation, in 2012 - 'The
Essential Collection'. It sold terribly. A few thousand in the UK, where it failed to get into
the Top 200. Only around 150,000 Sales Globally. Universal now see it as a huge error of
judgement, that they released it.

So, they see absolutely no use, point, or sense, in releasing 'Anniversary Editions' of
'Greatest Hits Vol. 2' & 'The Singles'. They'd only sell to a few thousand Fans & the
Record Company would make hardly any money from them.....

Aside from an aesthetic purpose of reissuing a bygone compilation album that was surpassed by ABBA's "The Complete Studio Recordings" and "Thank You For The Music" boxed sets, sonically and by the tracks of the songs, I don't see any point in further reissues of "The Singles: The First Ten Years". Yes, the singles that were released during ABBA's prime did make them successful but I'll have to side with Universal Music for that debate.

It's not worth it and it's like "there's orange, so it tastes very citrusy" (GOLD: Greatest Hits) and then "oh, there's peach! but it tastes like orange." (A generic ABBA compilation album with a unique album art with the same tracklist as GOLD: G.H.)
Basically, the tracks are all the same, content-wise, but the album cover's different. Even ABBA's ICON is identical to 20th Century Masters: The Best of ABBA, if you are talking about the tracklist. LOL! Consumerism at its finest.
 
I'd prefer if most of Polar's other albums, whether prior to or after ABBA (Hootenanny Singers) were reissued in the same manner as Agnetha's Cupol/Warner catalogues is (straight-forward 180 gram vinyl).  

@onlyabba4me summed it up for me quite well. The question if The Singles would be re-released was brought up in ABBA Fan Club's magazine and the answer was basically the same - and they have their information directly from Universal. As for Gracias Por La Música, I don't quite understand it's re-release in the shape of the Deluxe Edition, when we have ABBA Oro with exactly the same content. Of course, it looks much better but it doesn't make sense to have two identical albums on the market - they should delete the ORO compilation in my opinion...

IF the 2014 Japanese Triple CD - 'ABBA 40/40 - The Best Selection' - is to be released in the UK etc.
in December, Universal could use 'The Singles' Photo for that Compilation.

Why is this in the News section when it's not news? I fainted for a second when I saw a track list with Just Like That before realizing this was just a fan track list. You're so cruel.

Now that you mention it, you're right-it's not news, so I'll move this thread.

Michal - No-one said, that releasing '40/40' outside Japan, 'makes more sense' - or any sense at all.
(That was just your interpretation of what I & AdamDawson2003 were saying in our Posts. It was a
misinterpretation).

I was just saying that if it did get released, outside Japan, perhaps it could have the same cover photo as
'The Singles', from 1982. It was just a suggestion & not a 'Yes!' to the idea of '40/40' being released.  I do
recall, that several ABBA Fans disliked the 'Too cute' ABBA photo, on the 2014 '40/40' cover. The same  one
that had been used on 'ABBA Collected', in 2011, which was released in a few European Countries. Although
the colours were slightly altered, due to 'contrast' on the 2 covers.

It is all irrelevant, anyhow, as '40/40' is not being released outside Japan - so it cannot be given the cover
photo of 'The Singles' Compilation.

It could be that 'More ABBA Gold' will get a big re-promotion, in 2018, to cash in on several Tracks from it being
used in 'Mamma Mia! 2'. The 2nd Film is also certain to give another boost to 'ABBA Gold'. (We will see if '18 Hits'
also gets a Sales rise from Film 2. It did so from Film 1, & it has now sold well over 1,000,000 copies in Europe,
and at least 500,000 outside Europe. Its UK Sales alone are over 500,000).

There is no need, for any additional 'new' ABBA Compilations, to take advantage of the July 2018 release of Film 2.

Whatever the case - '40/40' is not being released outside Japan.....