One of the most popular Greatest Hits compilations of all time, ABBA Gold was first released on September 21, 1992. ABBA shot back in the top 40 of the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time in over three years, as the Swedish pop pioneers’ “Gold: Greatest Hits” surged from No. 114 to No. 34 on the survey dated September 18, 2022. The album has spent a whopping 168-weeks on the Billboard 200 chart since its release.

To date, the album has gained more than 32-million sales worldwide and is the second highest selling LP in UK history, spending over 1,055 weeks on the British Album Chart. ABBA was the first, and only act to hit this monumental milestone.

Including 19 of ABBA’s biggest hits such as “Dancing Queen,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Take A Chance On Me,” “Mamma Mia,” and “The Winner Takes It All,” ABBA Gold has become a staple amongst fans for over 30-years.

Gold: Greatest Hits has been called one of the most influential compilation albums ever released. Music critic Elisabeth Vincentelli (New York Post; Time Out New York) credits the album for a revival of critical interest in ABBA’s music after ten years of neglect following the band’s 1982 break-up.

Writing for Pitchfork in 2019, reviewer Jamieson Cox agreed, describing Gold: Greatest Hits as a “refined package with surprising emotional range”. The album, he wrote, “capitalized on a simmering, subcultural interest in ABBA’s work and sparked a full-blown revival” that culminated in the Mamma Mia! stage and film productions.

BuzzFeed music editor Matthew Perpetua included Gold: Greatest Hits among the compilations he considered “so well curated in presenting a fertile period of a career that they are arguably an artist’s definitive work.”

Former Rolling Stone magazine writer Tom Moon included Gold: Greatest Hits among his 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, describing the tracks as “models of impeccable craft”, adding that the album is “an excellent starter kit for those wanting to investigate the DNA of post-Beatles pop.

Writing for Vanity Fair, singer-songwriter Elvis Costello included Gold: Greatest Hits among his list of 500 essential albums.

To celebrate the milestone 30th anniversary, ABBA Gold was released on the following formats September 23, 2022:

• BRAND NEW – 2LP Picture Disc: heavyweight vinyl, housed in die-cut gatefold sleeve

• BRAND NEW – Gold Cassette, also available on black cassette

• Gold 2LP: Gold 2 x 180g vinyl (Previously Out-Of-Print)

Brand new limited-edition ABBA merchandise items will also be available to pre-order from selected stores.

Purchase or stream the all versions of the album here. 

In other ABBA news, many ABBA Voyage concerts still have available tickets! ABBA Voyage is a revolutionary new concert that sees Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid performing digitally with a live 10-piece band, in a specially built arena in London, UK.

The ABBA Arena is a state-of-the-art 3,000 capacity arena located at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. The digital versions of ABBA have been created following months of painstakingly detailed motion-capture and performance techniques with the four band members and an 850-strong team from Industrial Light & Magic, the company founded by the legendary George Lucas, in what is the company’s first foray into music.

The ABBA Voyage concert is made with the help of: Producer Svana Gisla (David Bowie Blackstar/Lazarus, Beyoncé and Jay Z for HBO, Springsteen and I), Producer Ludvig Andersson (And Then We Danced, Yung Lean – “In My Head”, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again), Director Baillie Walsh (Flashbacks of a Fool, Being James Bond, Springsteen and I), Co-Executive Producer Johan Renck (Spaceman, David Bowie Blackstar/Lazarus, Chernobyl) and Choreographer Wayne McGregor CBE (The Royal Ballet, Company Wayne McGregor, Paris Opera Ballet).