ABBA :: Charts & Sales History

[Benny]

Songs with more than 30 million streams on Spotify - changes compared to December 28, 2022 (= 1 month ago):

1. (1) Dancing Queen 875,7 m (+23,0 m)
2. (2) Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! 517,7 m (+18,7 m)
3. (3) Mamma Mia 374,7 m (+9,5 m)
4. (4) The Winner Takes It All 294,4 m (+7,0 m)
5. (6) Lay All Your Love on Me 251,7 m (+9,8 m)
6. (5) Take a Chance on Me 249,5 m (+6,5 m)
7. (7) Waterloo 222,0 m (+6,1 m)
8. (8) Chiqutita 210,3 m (+5,4 m)
9. (9) Super Trouper 208,1 m (+4,3 m)
10. (10) SOS 142,4 m (+4,5 m)
11. (11) Angeleyes 134,7 m (+7,2 m)
12. (12) Voulez-Vous 128,6 m (+3,7 m)
13. (13) Fernando 122,9 m (+2,6 m)
14. (14) Knowing Me Knowing You 118,8 m (+2,4 m)
15. (15) Does Your Mother Know 117,4 m (+3,0 m)
16. (16) Money Money Money 115,0 m (+4,8 m)
17. (18) Slipping Through My Fingers 78,1 m (+3,6 m)
18. (17) I Have a Dream 76,4 m (+1,5 m)
19. (19) Thank You for the Music 70,6 m (+1,5 m)
20. (20) One of Us 69,7 m (+1,3 m)
21. (21) Honey Honey 66,7 m (+1,7 m)
22. (22) Don't Shut Me Down 61,3 m (+1,4 m)
23. (23) Happy New Year 56,4 m (+3,1 m)
24. (24) When I Kissed the Teacher 44,8 m (+0,9 m)
25. (25) The Name of the Game 44,5 m (+0,8 m)
26. (26) I Still Have Faith in You 39,8 m (+0,9 m)
27. (27) I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do 38,5 m (+0,9 m)
28. (28) Our Last Summer 35,4 m (+0,9 m)
29. (30) If It Wasn't for the Nights 31,6 m (+0,8 m)
30. (29) Ring Ring 31,5 m (+0,6 m)

Top 10 songs with the highest increase in streaming numbers over the past month:

1. Dancing Queen +23,0 m
2. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! +18,7 m
3. Lay All Your Love on Me +9,8 m
4. Mamma Mia +9,5 m
5. Angeleyes +7,2 m
6. The Winner Takes It All +7,0 m
7. Take a Chance on Me +6,5 m
8. Waterloo +6,1 m
9. Chiqutita +5,4 m
10. Money Money Money +4,8 m

This month, many of ABBA's songs had bigger increases in streaming numbers compared to the months before, due to the fact that ABBA's music is always extremely popular around New Year's Eve (many of their songs, not only 'Happy New Year'). 'Dancing Queen', for example, has gained 23 million streams in the past month, the highest increase since I started comparing the monthly stats (which was in April 2022).

As reported earlier this month, 'Lay All Your Love on Me' overtakes 'Take a Chance on Me', and 'Slipping Through My Fingers' switches places with 'I Have a Dream'.

Next month, 'Dancing Queen' & 'The Winner Takes It All' will come closer to 900 million & 300 million streams, respectively.

We might also have one or two new entries as 'Andante Andante' and 'When All Is Said and Done' are close to 30 million streams.

[TfromBinG]

And Dancing Queen probably will surpass 900m streams earlier than The Winner Takes It All the 300m.

[Nameless]

Gimme Gimme Gimme gaining ground on Dancing Queen in monthly increases but still far behind in All Time stats.

GGG far ahead of Mamma Mia in 2nd place slot.

[TfromBinG]

A little breakdown of ABBA's Top 30 spotify-songs album-wise:

Ring Ring: 1 song, 31.5m

Waterloo: 2 songs, 288.7m

ABBA: 3 songs, 555.6m

Arrival: 5 songs, 1,277.2m (incl. Fernando)

The Album: 3 songs, 364.6m

Voulez-Vous: 7 songs, 1,216.7m (incl. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!)

Super Trouper: 5 songs, 867.7m

The Visitors: 2 songs, 146.8m (interestingly the song with more streams wasn't a single)

Voyage: 2 songs, 101.1m

[LostAvenger]

HitsDailyDouble:

Voyage has done 218K US album units to date, with 33M streams up to January 5th:

https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=...HE-MARKETPLACE

[TfromBinG]

Lay All Your Love On Me is now #3 on the list of ABBA's monthly most streamed songs on Spotify. It surpassed Mamma Mia and Angel Eyes. The latter one slipped down to #5. And Money, Money, Money has entered the Top 10 and replaced Super Trouper.

[Nameless]

^LAYLOM getting the recognition it didn't get first time round. A great song.

[TfromBinG]

Sweden (physical charts):

Voyage 5 (re-entry) 59

(no placing within the main Top 60 album chart)

[Nameless]

Mixed fortunes for ABBA on the UK album chart this week


Good for Gold
Main - 13 (15) 1083 weeks on chart
Sales 14 (22)
Physical 26( 28)
Download 11 (12)

Against (my) expectations it does better on
Downloads than Physical


Bye Bye Voyage
Drops out of Sales Chart and slips to 96 from 91 on Physical Chart.


*BREAKING*

Slipping Through My Finger goes Silver. It is the first non-single to get an award. That Mamma Mia film and show gave it a lease of life

https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/17730-1693-1

[brian05]

From BPI.

Abba - Slipping Through My Fingers - Polar - Silver - Single - 03.02.2023 - 16.11.2004

[TfromBinG]

Great news for Slipping Through My Fingers, even if it looks like that songs are certified quite inflationary in these times (not only in the UK).

Nameless, you've wondered a few weeks ago, which song could be next. I haven't expected this one to be it. But now I try: the next song to be certified (except the ones, who already are certified and get an update) will be Don't Shut Me Down.

[Robbie]

I think 'Slipping Through My Fingers' by Abba is their first non-single track (i.e. the first not to have been released as an actual single) to be certified in the UK.

[TfromBinG]

And it's the 2nd time this song got a silver award. In 2021 Meryl Streep's and Amanda Seyfried's version went silver.

[Nameless]

I wonder what will be the next ABBA single to get a UK Silver Disc? Will it be a song featured in Mamma Mia like Slipping Through My Fingers? Fan favourite The Day Before You Came, the festive Happy New Year or comeback single Don't Shut Me Down?

TfromBinG, I did indeed speculate which song would be next for a Silver award. I did mention Slipping Through My Finger as a contender.

Like you I think the next one will be Don't Shut Me Down. Just over a year ago in Music Week it was reported to be on 100k.

Robbie - It is certainly the first non-single to be awarded a sales disc.

[Robbie]

^
'Thank You For The Music' was certified Silver on 13 August 2021.

[Carlocc71]

^LAYLOM getting the recognition it didn't get first time round. A great song.

Agree

[Nameless]

^
'Thank You For The Music' was certified Silver on 13 August 2021.

Thank You For the Music was issued as a single in December 1983 - several years after being album track. It reached #33.

[Robbie]

Thank You For the Music was issued as a single in December 1983 - several years after being album track. It reached #33.

My fault for the confusion here. I was mixing up two Abba songs and two of your posts and typed up the wrong title as a track that had gone Silver!

[TfromBinG]

Yeah, Nameless, you named the song! (I mean this positively). And anyhow it helps The Visitors gaining more EAS.

Some day a song will be certified that wasn't a single in the UK but elsewhere, like Honey, Honey or Eagle.

[Nameless]

ABBA's UK Singles Certification tally


Physical
Gold - 10
Silver - 5

NB Waterloo and The Winner Takes it All never got certified


Digital
Platinum x2 - 1
Platinum - 3
Gold - 3
Silver - 4

[Nameless]

Some day a song will be certified that wasn't a single in the UK but elsewhere, like Honey, Honey or Eagle.

It would be nice if before that happened the big hit singles would get certified in other countries. No digital certifications even for the likes of Dancing Queen, Gimme Gimme Gimme or The Winner Takes it All in Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Australia or the US.

I make it 24 songs that has got a certification - digital or physical. The 19 GOLD songs, I Do x5, Happy New Year, ISHFIY, DSMD and now STMF.

Only 3 countries have supplied digital certifications for the older songs - UK, Denmark and Italy and only Sweden has awarded certifications for ISHFIY and DSMD

[flyingeagle]

Has anybody noticed what's happening on Tiktok platform, regarding Money money money? It seems that a new fever is being spread about this song...young generations spell bound by Abba!

[TfromBinG]

I make it 24 songs that has got a certification - digital or physical. The 19 GOLD songs, I Do x5, Happy New Year, ISHFIY, DSMD and now STMF.

I count 26 songs: Waterloo, I Do×5, SOS, Mamma Mia, Fernando, Dancing Queen, Money×3, Knowing Me, Knowing You, The Name Of The Game, Take A Chance On Me, Summer Night City, Chiquitita, Does Your Mother Know, Angeleyes (1979), Voulez-Vous (2020), Gimme!×3, I Have A Dream, The Winner Takes It All, Super Trouper, Lay All Your Love On Me, One Of Us, Thank You For The Music, Happy New Year, I Still Have Faith In You, Don't Shut Me Down and Slipping Through My Fingers.

I left Honey, Honey's german certification off.

[Benny]

Has anybody noticed what's happening on Tiktok platform, regarding Money money money? It seems that a new fever is being spread about this song...young generations spell bound by Abba!

Yes, that explains why the streaming numbers of the song have gone up on Spotify. It gained 1.2 million streams in the past 7 days.

[Nameless]

ABBA Single certifications..I forgot SNC (one of my favourite ABBA songs)

Not sure I'd count Angeleyes as it was part of double A side with Voulez Vous.

So 25 or 26 if you count Angeleyes.