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ABBA Scored Their 9th And Final No. 1 Hit In The UK With ‘SUPER TROUPER’ Today 45 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

29 November 2025

With SUPER TROUPER Swedish global pop icons ABBA scored their 9th and final
No. 1 hit in the UK. It occupied the top seat today 45 years ago, on 29 Nov 1980.

The song – with lead vocals by Anni-Frid Lyngstad – had the working title ‘Blinka Lilla Stjärna‘ (i.e. ‘Twinkle Little Star’. It was the last track to be written and recorded for the album of the same name.

The song’s name refers to the Super Trouper, a type of spotlight used in large venues.

“Tonight the super trouper lights are gonna find me
Shining like the sun (super trouper)
Smiling, having fun (super trouper)
Feeling like a number one”

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ABBA – Swedish Hit Machine Scored Their First No. 1 In The UK 50 Years Ago Today With ‘WATERLOO’

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4 May 2024

50 years ago today, on 4 May 1974 Swedish hit machine ABBA scored
their first, of a total of 9, number one singles in the UK with WATERLOO.

The song with which they won the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 the month before.

STUDIO VERSION

EUROVISION CONTEST 1974

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Number One Hits From The Past – ABBA (1980) And BEE GEES (1975)

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9 Augustus 2023

Swedish hit machine ABBA scored their 8th number one in the UK with
THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL (more than 335 million streams on Spotify) this
day in 1980. By then the two couples were divorced. No winner(s) in this case,
I guess.

It featured on their Super Trouper LP.

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The Gibb brothers were also a hit machine. On this day in 1975
they topped the US Charts with JIVE TALKIN’ (almost 60 million
streams on Spotify).

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An S.O.S Message – BONO And THE EDGE Cover ABBA

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17 March 2023

On the BB Radio series 2 of artists playing covers in the studio’s piano-room
U2‘s main men Bono and The Edge were the latest guests. As ABBA fans
for years they picked the Swedish pop stars’ 1975 hit SOS to perform, backed
by a silent orchestra.

The Edge: “We found a Johnny Cash angle on the song.”

Here’s their intimate, acoustic version. Lovely.

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Does Your Mother Know That British Glam Rock Team THE WILD THINGS Cover ABBA?

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9 November 2022

Band: THE WILD THINGS
Who: British rock band fronted by lead singer Sydney Rae White, star
of the hit Netflix/BBC show Uncle and blockbuster movie American Assasin.
The band do everything themselves because they have a clear, definitive
idea of who they are.

This is how massive Swedish hit machine ABBA would have sounded if they were
a pop-punk quartet. Spiced-up, pepped-up and turned-up with crystal synth touches, battering drum/bass, vigorous guitars and lively vocals. Go tell your mother about it,
I’m sure she still is an Abba fan.

The Wild Things take it all.


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Also streaming on Spotify

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Original version

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ABBA Were The Number One Dancing Queens In The US 45 Years Ago Today

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Great singles from the past

9 April 2022

Unexpectedly, Swedish non-stop hits machine ABBA returned
last year with Voyage, their first album in 40 years. A commercial
success, of course

But the quartet – Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson,
and Anni-Frid Lyngstad – enjoyed their golden years, back in the 70s
with a striking series of 24 Carat gold classics.

One of them was DANCING QUEEN. A pop diamond that topped
the US Singles Chart 45 years ago today, on 9 April 1977. It was also
a #1 in 12 other countries.

Yes, it’s cheesy, but pop-tastic too…

ABBA: Story – Discography

Mamma Mia! Pop Machine ABBA BACK After 39 Years

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3 September 2021

Band: ABBA
Who: One of the greatest pop machines ever with
Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and
Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

Active: 1972–1982, 2018-present / 9 studio albums
including the new one. A total of more than 400 million
records sold over 50 years

New album: VOYAGE
Out: 5 November 2021 – more info here

New singles: I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU and DON’T SHUT ME DOWN

Seems these two new songs were already recorded in 2018. Whatever,
they’re here now along with the announcement of the new longplayer.

Hear the two vintage Abba pop symphonies here…

– I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU –

– DON’T SHUT ME DOWN –

The band also plans to play live, not really real but with new digital
avatars. So far, one big show is staged for May 2022 in London.

New album VOYAGE out 5 November 2021 via Capitol

(image on top: Pic disc Voyage)

Young Misfits BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD Cover… ABBA

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21 June 2021

Band: BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
Who: Seven young London misfits who made
an immense impression with their wayward
prog-post-punk-and-post-jazz debut album
For The First Time, released last February.

Covered song: MAMMA MIA (1975)
by Swedish hit machine ABBA

Here’s the live version as played yesterday at
a (socially distanced) gig in Birkenhead, UK.
Big fun, folks!

Mamma mia, here we go again…

The original…

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD: Facebook