Amongst ABBA’s weighty complete of 9 No.1 albums within the UK, the fourth arrived on the chart of Could 19, 1979. Voulez-Vous, their first LP recorded at Polar Studios in Stockholm, smashed straight to the highest to start a four-week reign and a 43-week keep among the many bestsellers.
Simply to underline the may of the super-Swedes by this time, the album had gone silver, gold and platinum in Britain even earlier than it made the charts. Inside 5 weeks, it was in one million UK properties. As in the event that they wanted any reassurance, the group’s followers knew they had been shopping for one other winner, as a result of the document arrived with two massive hits already secured.
Early within the yr, “Chiquitita” had reached No.2 within the UK and been a No.1 in Spain, Holland and far of Europe, and additional afield from New Zealand to Mexico. Then because the album was being launched, “Does Your Mother Know” was launched, going to No.4 within the UK.
The Voulez-Vous album ensured that ABBA spent nearly the entire of 1979 on the singles and album charts all over the world. Within the UK, these introductory singles had been amongst no fewer than 5 hits from the LP that yr, all of them Prime 5 successes however none of them No.1s. These different hits had been the double-sided single that paired “Angeleyes” and the title music, then got here the non-album observe “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! A Man After Midnight,” after which they returned to the LP for the Christmas hit “I Have A Dream.”
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The album ended a three-week run on the prime for a Finest Of launch by one of many UK’s favourite pop stars of the Seventies, Leo Sayer. It additionally stopped Skinny Lizzy’s Black Rose (A Rock Legend), which had climbed 3-2 the week earlier than, from reaching the summit. It was a countdown that moreover featured the album chart debut of Irish new wave favourites the Undertones, with a self-titled LP. By September, ABBA had been mounting their first US tour, as their worldwide musical domination grew ever larger.
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