The Singles - The First Ten Years

The Singles - The First Ten Years
Compilation album from ABBA
Publication (s)	5th November 1982
Label (s)	Polar (Sweden) Epic (UK) Atlantic (USA)
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	23
running time	93:43
production	Benny Andersson Bjorn Ulvaeus
Studio (s)	Polar Music Studios, Stockholm, Sweden
chronology The Visitors (1981) The Singles - The First Ten Years ABBA Live (1986)

The Singles - The First Ten Years is a compilation by the Swedish pop group ABBA from 1982. The album contains all of the group's international singles. The Singles - The First Ten Years was the last official sound carrier in ABBA's career as an active music group.

Origin and meaning

The concept for a collection of all of the group's singles already existed in 1980, but was not used until 1982 as a replacement for the planned ninth studio album. The songs Just Like That , I Am the City and You Owe Me One , composed in the spring of 1982, clearly opposed the style of the last studio album, The Visitors , as they were more cheerful and were all sung by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad .

Since the atmosphere within the group was already tense and the four members lacked motivation, they met one last time in the studio in autumn 1982 to record three new songs. It originated Cassandra , Under Attack and The Day Before You Came . Of these, only the last two were released as single and therefore included in the track list of The Singles . The LP is now a collector's item. The CD version is even rarer to find; both are out of print.

Chart placements

year	title	Chart positions
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	SE
1982	The Singles - The First Ten Years	5	-	-	1	62	19th

Track list

page 1

1. Ring ring
2. Waterloo
3. So long
4. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
5. SOS
6. Mamma Mia
7. Fernando

Page 2

1. Dancing Queen
2. Money, money, money
3. Knowing Me, Knowing You
4. The name of the game
5. Take a chance on me
6. Summer Night City

Page 3

1. Chiquitita
2. Does your mother know
3. Voulez-Vous
4. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
5. I have a dream

page 4

1. The Winner Takes It All
2. Super trouper
3. One of Us
4. The Day Before You Came
5. Under attack

literature

• 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. 107/108
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.