ABBA :: Charts & Sales History

[Nameless]

Denmark

10.01.2023. ABBA Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After… Universal Music Track Platin

Is this for sales and streaming and if so what level? Or just for Streaming? (Sweden now has streaming only for tracks)

[AndiIversen]

Is this for sales and streaming and if so what level? Or just for Streaming? (Sweden now has streaming only for tracks)

streaming is included in downloads now; the cert is for 90k

[Nameless]

I am a bit confused. This suggests streaming only and individual streams.


http://www.ifpi.dk/guld-platin

[AndiIversen]

it's an equivalent calculated on streaming + whatever downloads the track managed to obtain, the first Gold cert for Gimme Gimme was back in June 2020

[LostAvenger]

HUNGARY:

10 (RE) 08 Happy New Year [PK #3]

PORTUGAL:

152 NE Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

BILLBOARD VIETNAM HOT 100:

89 (RE) 03 Happy New Year [PK #29]

[Nameless]

it's an equivalent calculated on streaming + whatever downloads the track managed to obtain, the first Gold cert for Gimme Gimme was back in June 2020

Thanks. I notice Voulez Vous (album) got a gold disc last year. Wikipedia says 10k sales. Is that right? It seems very low.

[Nameless]

The OCC produced two lists of Top 20 ABBA singles. The first in September revealed total sales ie including streaming


https://web.archive.org/web/20210902...-songs__26113/


The second in November 2021 had just Pure Sales.

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...-songs__26113/

Dancing Queen - article 1 gives 1.65m CHART SALES ie Everything Physical, Download, Streaming. This is way too low.

920k Physical Sales 1976-92
1200k Download/Streaming sales

Actually awarded double platinum for Download/Streams in April 2022 - but Sep 2021 sales can't have been much lower.

Total UK Sales 2.1 million plus

Article 2 says 1. 56m PURE SALES
If counting physical era then downloads would be over 650k. They didn't give CHART Sales

Note: Physical, Download and Streaming added together in All Time Charts but not Certifications.

Certifications: either
1. Physical Sales and/or
2. Downloads and Streaming

To add even more confusion the OCC has in past compiled All Time Lists of PURE SALES ie Physical and Downloads

[Choley]

USA "Luminate" udpate :

Gold - SPS : 8,449,000 / Pure sales : 6,407,000 -> estimated total consumption to date : 11,469,000

BMG Music Club: 884,000 and estimated to sold around 1.5 million in Columbia House Music Club so

13,853,000 total units for Gold

[Nameless]

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[Nameless]

BMG Music Club: 884,000 and estimated to sold around 1.5 million in Columbia House Music Club so

13,853,000 total units for Gold

My take

6,000,000 in 2002 (RIAA)

3,000,000 - Counted by Riaa but not Soundscan. Music Clubs etc

3,000,000 - Counted by Soundscan 1993-2002

Total Soundscan Pure Sales - 6.4million
Soundscan SPS - 8.4Million
Total inc RIAA Music Clubs etc 1993-2002 - 11.4 million

[wolfmother]

My take

6,000,000 in 2002 (RIAA)

3,000,000 - Counted by Riaa but not Soundscan. Music Clubs etc

3,000,000 - Counted by Soundscan 1993-2002

Total Soundscan Pure Sales - 6.4million
Soundscan SPS - 8.4Million
Total inc RIAA Music Clubs etc 1993-2002 - 11.4 million

This is exatcly how I came up with my estimation.

[Nameless]

I remember at the time Soundscan were saying 3 million sales when the RIAA said 6 million.

Music Clubs were very big in the mid and early 90s. Soundscan didn't track those sales or other non-traditional sales.

The vast majority of the 3 million unscanned sales would be Music Clubs. Some would be perhaps from the Broadway Theatre that showed Mamma Mis! (It opened in September 2001). A bit of a myth that it was this that drove US sales. By late 2001 it was already heading towards 6 million.


Some sales of those RIAA would be also shipments in shops but not sold yet sold. But I doubt a very large stockpile.


Those Music Clubs clearly helped Gold in its early days.

[Nameless]

Uk charts

Gold dips one place. This week #11
But in Sales Chart rises from 17 to 13.

4, 121 SPS

Voyage slips from 61 to 63 in Sales Chart


Ireland
Gold falls from #7 to this week's #11

[TfromBinG]

With last week's SPS for GOLD in the UK of 4,121, the total is now 6,233 - 6,234m.

[TfromBinG]

Switzerland:

GOLD 33 (31) 685

Voulez-Vous 98 (new) 1*

* It's the album's first chart appearance since the introduction of the official charts in Switzerland. There were album charts before, compiled by Der Musikmarkt. Voulez-Vous was #1 for eight weeks and #2 for the year 1979 in Switzerland.

[TfromBinG]

Austria:

GOLD 14 (10) 572

Voyage 72 (47) 32

[Nameless]

UK Charts

Gold #13 (11)

SPS: The #12 4, 604. #14 4, 124.


Sales Chart
Gold #24 (13)
Voyage #76 (63)

[TfromBinG]

Some additional latest chart postions:

Belgium (FL):

GOLD 26 (47) 278

Voulez-Vous 130 (168) 43

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Switzerland:

GOLD 43 (33) 686

Voulez-Vous 92 (98) 2

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The Netherlands:

Voulez-Vous 96 (re-entry) 82

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Germany:

GOLD 58 (44) 430


looks like, if Voulez-Vous is ABBA's current album.

[Nameless]

It certainly does look like Voulez Vous is the current album. Streaming really helps that akbum.

Back in the day it sold less than Arrival, and Super Trouper, in Europe anyway, but being a mini Greatest Hits has given it a boost.

[AndiIversen]

Denmark

17.01.2023. ABBA Take A Chance On Me Universal Music Track Guld

[petrodav1452]

United Kingdom

Shazam:
121. Angel Eyes

iTunes Albums:
3. ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits
53 Mamma Mia! Soundtrack
63. ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits
67. Voyage
84. ABBA: The Album

Apple Music Albums:
51. ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits

ABBA doing well, in UK at moment, Gold also Number
Four on Worldwide Albums.

[Nameless]

UK Charts

Main Chart
Gold drops a couple of places from 13 to 15

SPS - probably around 4,000. #12 on 4632 #18 on 3145.


Sales Chart
Gold climbs two places from 24 to 22
Voyage - a big drop. This week #91 down from #76 last week.

[Nameless]

Anyone seen a recent list of All Time Best Selling Artists in the UK?

This was from 2012 for Singles was before Streaming and ABBA at #8 with over 11 million singles. I understand 10 million were physical


https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...evealed__2162/

[TfromBinG]

Hm, today's the 29th and no spotify update yesterday...

Hope, you are okay, Benny!

(Of course, there are a lot of things in life more important than figures, charts and numbers!)

[Benny]

Hm, today's the 29th and no spotify update yesterday...

Hope, you are okay, Benny!

(Of course, there are a lot of things in life more important than figures, charts and numbers!)

Oh I totally forgot!

I will post the figures today!