ABBA’s music continues to get the occasion began. The Swedish pop group’s 1979 single “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” has joined Spotify’s Billions Membership, which celebrates songs which have reached multiple billion views on the streaming platform. That is their second music to hit the milestone.
“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” was initially recorded as a promotional tune for ABBA’s North American and European excursions in 1979. It was the only single from 1979’s Best Hits Vol. 2 and was later included in reissues of the group’s sixth studio album, Voulez-Vous.
Certainly one of ABBA’s many signature hits, the disco smash topped charts throughout Europe, together with Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Eire. Whereas “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” wasn’t formally launched in the US and Canada, it nonetheless acquired love on the dancefloor even amid the fading Studio 54 disco membership period. Surprisingly, “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” wasn’t given a single launch within the group’s native Sweden, although it nonetheless hit No.16 due to gross sales of import copies.
The hit has shaped a legacy due to a number of revivals by pop icons and newcomers alike. ABBA tribute group A-Teenagers launched their teen-pop model in 1999, turning into their third top-10 hit in Sweden. Madonna wrote a letter to ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus asking to make use of “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!”—a daring transfer as ABBA was infamous for refusing to have their work sampled. Their uncommon approval led to “Hung Up,” Madonna’s lead single from 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Ground, which grew to become one of many largest hits of her profession. In 2018, Cher included the tune on her ABBA covers album, Dancing Queen. New-gen pop singers Ava Max and Rina Sawayama additionally sampled the music on 2019’s “Torn” and 2022’s “This Hell,” respectively.
The primary ABBA music to enter the Spotify Billions Membership was 1976’s “Dancing Queen,” the group’s solely music to prime the U.S. charts. Just lately, the pop smash’s official music video surpassed one billion views on YouTube. ABBA additionally celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their 1975 self-titled file with a reissue bundle, which was launched on June 13. The unique album included hits like “Mamma Mia,” “SOS,” and “I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do.”
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