ABBA :: Charts & Sales History

[Nameless]

I think it’ll do more than 400k. Half of that is in the UK Alone.

Yes. That 400k is pre-orders not prediction for first week's sales.

Uk pre-orders 111k, but 1st week sales about 200k.

[TfromBinG]

Have expected greater things from Lithuania: Voyage new in at #23.

[Nameless]

ABBA may not do so well in Eastern Europe.
with Number Ones in UK, Germany, Australia, Sweden and a #2 in the US I am sure ABBA are pleased with those results.


Here is the verdict of the Lithuanian people.
https://www.agata.lt/lt/naujienos/45s/


I shall look forward to finding about charts around the world in the following days.

[wolfmother]

Have expected greater things from Lithuania: Voyage new in at #23.

It's #23 and #62. Weird. Still very disappointing though.

[TfromBinG]

But we should not grief by the results fom there and look full of joy towards for the things to come in the evening!

[autumnwind]

Abba back on top down under. How great for them

[Nomore]

To be honest I don’t expect it will do well in Hungary where Eurovision has been wiped out of the social Callander for controversial reasons . Neither do I think it will do well in Poland because people will scared of being called names if they buy ...it same in some other territories .. but let’s be glad it’s done well in so many other countries

[Rockintunesbaby]

Have expected greater things from Lithuania: Voyage new in at #23.

Why would it do well in Lithuania? When ABBA were originally together, Lithuania was a part of The Soviet Union, most people had no access to pop music. So you can almost guarantee most Eastern European countries ABBA won’t do well with this album.

[TfromBinG]

Why would it do well in Lithuania? When ABBA were originally together, Lithuania was a part of The Soviet Union, most people had no access to pop music. So you can almost guarantee most Eastern European countries ABBA won’t do well with this album.

It was meant with a twinkle in my eyes, as Lithuania seemed to be the third country, where an entry of Voyage was verified.

In Hungary DSMD was a Number 4 at least. It's not that ABBA were totally unpopular in the east european countries.

[Nameless]

What countries charts come out today? I know most charts run from Fri to Thurs but doesn't follow their charts out today - USA chart won't be.

UK
Ireland
Germany
Sweden

What other ones?

[wolfmother]

What countries charts come out today? I know most charts run from Fri to Thurs but doesn't follow their charts out today - USA chart won't be.

UK
Ireland
Germany
Sweden

What other ones?

France full chart isn't usually published untill monday/tuesday but the the top 10 and some others figures/placements for "urban" artists are always released on Fridays.

[wolfmother]

Why would it do well in Lithuania? When ABBA were originally together, Lithuania was a part of The Soviet Union, most people had no access to pop music. So you can almost guarantee most Eastern European countries ABBA won’t do well with this album.

Abba were very popular in Eastern Europe, they were some of the rare western artists that had authorised official releases and all the shipments were always sold out. Also piracy for their records were know to be quite huge in those same countries. So it actually is surprising they didn't even manage to get into the top 10.

[Nomore]

Things have changed since the 70s though.
Social issues are far more surface and spoken about .
The way in which Abba are seen and reported to represent are influencing factors unfortunately especially in eastern block societies and old Russian states . Life over there is pretty bad if you are of certain minorities

[Nameless]

There seems to be a lot of myths about ABBA and Eastern Europe. The most notorious that Arrival sold 1 million in Poland.

Sales for Gold Greatest Hits were very low in Eastern Europe.

Three types of Europe:

Germanic/Northern + NW
UK/Ireland Germany/Switzerland/Austria Netherlands/Begium and Norway/Sweden/Finland/Denmark. These are the countries ABBA do best

Latin Europe/Southern Europe: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal

Slavic/Eastern Europe : Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic etc ABBA not so popular

[Nameless]

Things have changed since the 70s though.
Social issues are far more surface and spoken about .
The way in which Abba are seen and reported to represent are influencing factors unfortunately especially in eastern block societies and old Russian states . Life over there is pretty bad if you are of certain minorities

Poland and Hungary can fairly be described as having Far Right govts. These countries are very homophobic, xenophobic and their govts increasingly authoritarian.

[Benny]

Australia:

"Music legends ABBA take out their first #1 in Australia in nearly 30 years as they return with Voyage. The quartet’s first studio album since 1981’s The Visitors features ten tracks written by ABBA's songwriters, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and includes the singles ‘Don't Shut Me Down’ (#27 Sept. ’21) and ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ (#39 Sept. ’21). It’s the second ABBA album to top the ARIA Charts after the compilation ABBA Gold spent four straight weeks at #1 in December 1992. Prior to the ARIA Charts, ABBA had #1 albums in Australia with ABBA (11 weeks, Dec. ‘75 to Feb. ‘76), The Best of ABBA (16 weeks, Mar. ‘76 to Jul. ‘76) and Arrival (8 weeks, Nov. ‘76 to Jan. ‘77). Voyage will be supported by a concert residency, also called ABBA Voyage, that will take place in London beginning on 27 May 2022 and will feature the digital avatars of the group."

https://www.aria.com.au/charts/news/...k-album-voyage

Sadly they didn't publish any sales figures.

[petrodav1452]

Nameless we should not be discussing our opinions on politics on here, a mod already intervened on the jab topic)

l have much respect for Hungary's President, at the moment!!

Voyage' has done very well, in Eastern Europe on iTunes,
, their income is lower though. Plus why would you buy music, on low income, when its available to listen to it all for free, that last factor was never available in Abba's earlier Career, so it is all the more satisfying to See Abba Voyage' reach No. 1 a good happy ending for them!!

[wolfmother]

https://www.facebook.com/offizielle....88398886627333

"Just WOW !!! What a comeback! What a mega achievement! ABBA set a full-fledged start with "Voyage" and break records. Here are some facts we can announce already:
Over 200,000 units sold of "Voyage" during release week
+ most successful album launch in the past two and a half years
+ best start of an international act of the past six years
+ the album sells better than the rest of the top 100 seats combined
+ "Voyage" is already at the top of the annual charts, which will be finally released in early December
+ at the same time the Best Of album "Gold - Greatest Hits" climbs from 85 to 16. At 369 weeks, it is the most commonly placed international album or. the second-most ranked album in total since the start of the official German charts in 1977
+ with "The Albums" (24) another 3rd ABBA album represented
+ in addition, the three songs "Don't Shut Me Down" (28), "I Still Have Faith In You" (37) and "Just A Notion" (55) return to the official German singles charts"

[LostAvenger]

France:

[Nameless]

Great results from Germany!

#1 in Sweden too
https://www.sverigetopplistan.se/cha...y=2021&dspp=45

#1 in France too

[TfromBinG]

Now the Number Ones stumble in! Great to see! Platinum status in Germany!

[Benny]

Another link for the stats posted above by wolfmother: https://www.offiziellecharts.de/news...-mega-comeback

So with more than 200k copies sold in Germany, 'Voyage' has the best opening week of an album since 'Rammstein' by Rammstein, which sold 260k in its first week in May 2019, and the best opening by an album by an international act since Adele's '25' which sold 263k in its first week in November 2015.

The album with the best opening of the 2010s in Germany was Helene Fischer's self-titled album which sold 300k in its first week in May 2017. That was the highest figure for an opening week since Herbert Grönemeyer's 'Mensch' in 2002, the biggest selling album of all time in Germany.

[Benny]

France:

So number 1 in France with sales of 38 598!

[LostAvenger]

Sweden:

07 Don't Shut Me Down
08 When You Danced With Me
19 Keep An Eye On Dan
20 Little Things
21 I Still Have Faith In You
22 Just A Notion
23 I Can Be That Woman
25 Bumblebee
29 No Doubt About It
30 Ode To Freedom

[LostAvenger]

Norway:

01 New Voyage