ABBA have reissued their ‘Gold’ greatest hits LP as the collection turns 30.
Originally released in September 1992, the album has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide and is the 2nd highest selling album of all time in the UK.
Featuring hits such as Dancing Queen, Knowing Me, Knowing You, Take A Chance On Me, Mamma Mia and The Winner Takes It All, the collection is being released on new 2LP picture disc, along with gold and black coloured cassette editions.
This year the much beloved ‘ABBA Gold’ turns 30!
— ABBA (@ABBA) August 4, 2022
To celebrate it will be available from September 23rd on formats such as Picture Disc Vinyl, Gold Vinyl and Cassette.
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Also available is a repressing of the gold coloured 2LP vinyl.
The album has spent over 1,000 weeks on the Official UK Albums Chart, making it the longest running album in the Official Albums Chart Top 100 ever.
The ‘Gold’ 30th anniversary reissue is available now.
It comes as the group’s ‘ABBA Voyage’ show continues to play at the ABBA Arena in Stratford, east London, with dates running through 2023.
Speaking in Retro Pop’s August 2022 issue, producer Ludvig Andersson opened up on the future of the residency, hinting: “The biggest dream is to stay in London and we build another one somewhere else.
“Where that would be – I’d like to go places that are maybe not the obvious ones. It would be nice to take it to places that aren’t always visited by the big bands.
“The dream would be to have one somewhere in South America, one somewhere in Southeast Asia, one in North America. Who knows? But that’s the plan and we’re working on that already.”
‘ABBA Voyage’ currently features 20 songs, including global chart hits and fan favourites, which the group performed on a soundstage wearing motion capture suits to recreate their movements.
Recalling the sessions, Ludvig confirms additional performances were filmed, meaning the setlist can be changed and adapted as time passes.
“We did more songs than we knew we were going to use,” he teases. “So there is more material.
“If this keeps running and people keep wanting to come and see it, we are intending to change a song out or update the show – because that’s also fun to do.”
Read the full interview in the August 2022 edition of Retro Pop, out now. Order yours or subscribe via our Online Store or use our Store Finder to locate your nearest stockist.
