COPENHAGEN (AP) — The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song “Waterloo,” on Friday got one of the most prestigious knighthoods in Sweden from the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf. The Order of the...
Agnetha Faltskog stands second left in ABBA's wax figures displayed at Stockholm's ABBA museum (AFP) STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Two years after iconic Swedish pop group ABBA returned with a new album, singer Agnetha Faltskog has announced she will unveil a new single as a solo artist this week. "So......
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) honored boy band Seventeen as the highest-charting K-pop artist in its annual album sales chart. IFPI released the top 10 artists on its 2021 Global Album Sales Chart, which “combines global sales of physical albums and digital...
K-pop superstars BTS bagged nomination at the BRIT Awards 2022, which will be held on Feb. 8 at The O2 Arena in London. BTS got nominated for Best International Group of the Year along with ABBA, Maneskin, Silk Sonic/Bruno Mars/Anderson. Paak and The War On Drugs. The BRIT Awards announced the...
London, United Kingdom - ABBA's first studio album in nearly 40 years has made it to the top of the UK charts, becoming the fastest seller of the year so far, the Official Charts Company said on Friday. "Voyage" by the Swedish quartet of Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid racked up 204,000 chart...
Swedish pop superstars return after a 4-decade absence. But do people still care? ABBA was Stockholm’s biggest pop music import and was one of the biggest acts of the 70’s. And even though the quartet released their last album “The Visitors” in 1981, ABBA – Bjorn, Benny Anna-Frid and...
ABBA (AFP) STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedish pop sensation ABBA is making a comeback on Friday with their new album ''Voyage'', nearly 40 years after they split up, with a digital avatar concert eventually planned in London. Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid -- forming the acronym ABBA -- have not...
Members of the Swedish group ABBA are seen on a display during their Voyage event at Grona Lund, Stockholm, on Sept. 2, 2021, during their presentation of the first new song after nearly four decades. (Photo by Fredrik PERSSON /TT News Agency/AFP) Nearly four decades after disbanding and vowing...
