Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (ABBA album)

Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Compilation album from ABBA
Publication (s)	October 26, 1979
Label (s)	Polar Music (Scandinavia), Polydor (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands etc.), Epic (United Kingdom), RCA (Australia), Atlantic Records (USA), Vouge / Baboo (France) etc.
Format (s)	LP, MC, CD
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	14th
occupation	Singing : Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus Bass : Rutger Gunnarsson Guitar : Janne Schaffner, Anders Glenmark, Lasse Wellander, Björn Ulvaeus Drums : Ola Brunkert , Roger Palm Keyboard : Benny Andersson Agnetha Fältskog Bjorn Ulvaeus Benny Andersson Anni-Frid Lyngstad
production	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Studio (s)	Metronomes
chronology Voulez-Vous (1979) Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Gracias por la música (1980)

Greatest Hits Vol. 2 is the second best-of album by the Swedish pop group ABBA . It was first published in Great Britain on October 26, 1979, and three days later it was published in Sweden and other countries. The album reached number 1 in Belgium, Great Britain and Canada, as well as the top ten in ten other countries. In a 1981 statistic by Polar Music , it was ranked fourth on the ABBA sales list. Even today it is one of the best-selling ABBA albums with around 7.5 million copies. Around one million copies were sold in Japan alone.

The album and its success

The album was released with the single from Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) connected. Stig Anderson , the group's manager, said that buyers of the new single should buy the new compilation right away. So it annoyed him all the more when the single rose to number 16 in the Swedish charts, while the album only came to number 20.

The material mainly includes tracks from the albums Arrival , ABBA - The Album and Voulez-Vous . Only Rock Me from the album ABBA was included on the track list, as it had reached the top 5 in the Australian charts in 1975 ; also the single Summer Night City released a year earlier . For reasons that have not yet been clarified, the two stereo channels on this album were swapped (both on the vinyl and on the CD version, which is no longer available today).

The release of Greatest Hits Vol. 2 coincided with the current concert tour of ABBA, which began on September 13 in North America and has continued in Europe since October 19, 1979. This further peak of its popularity helped the LP to a quick chart entry, especially in Great Britain, where it was number 1 for a total of four weeks and sold around 1.2 million copies. Greatest Hits Vol. 2 was also able to reach the top position in Canada . It remains ABBA's only number one album to this day.

Chart placements

year	title	Chart positions
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
1979	Greatest Hits Vol. 2	6th	2	-	1	46	20th

Track list

page 1

1. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
2. Knowing Me, Knowing You
3. Take a chance on me
4. Money, money, money
5. rock Me
6. eagle
7. Angeleyes

Page 2

1. Dancing Queen
2. Does your mother know
3. Chiquitita
4. Summer Night City
5. I Wonder (Departure)
6. The name of the game
7. Thank you for the music

literature

• Carl Magnus Palm: Light and Shadow. ABBA - The real story. Bosworth Musikverlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86543-100-4 (German translation: Helmut Müller).
• Carl Magnus Palm: Abba. Story and songs compact. Bosworth Music, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86543-227-8 ( compact story and songs ), (German translation: Cecilia Senge).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ABBA Gold - The Success Story, pp. 87/88
2. ↑ ABBA - The Worldwide Chart Lists ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Carl Magnus Palm: Abba - Story and Songs compact, p. 101
4. ↑ ^{a b} ABBA Sales: Worldwide Album Sales ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information on ABBA sales worldwide, accessed on August 20, 2015  
5. ↑ Chart positions Japan ( memento of the original from April 26, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ ABBA - The Worldwide Chart Lists ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.