Coming in November.How many more Abba compilations are necessary? Surely everyone has Gold that wants their hits.Can't see this doing that well.

it sounds like a complete rip off. I think the Abba best of compilations have been done to death. Between them and Blondie, you could fill an entire shelf with Greatest Hits type albums...

Agreed,Blondie have had loads too.

Abba,Blondie and Elvis have all milked or been milked to death with best of greatest hits etc,but im sure they wioll come up with many many more forms of greatest hits

Abba,Blondie and Elvis have all milked or been milked to death with best of greatest hits etc,but im sure they wioll come up with many many more forms of greatest hits

 

just wait till the earbooks come out. the latest way to get people to rebuy what theyve already got :angry:

shocking...and nothing less than cold money-grabbing.

 

ABBA should be ashamed.

they always find a new way to get you to buy the same things over and over again

This is odd. 'Gold' is so readily available - it still charts - and it has all the hits I can think of on already.

 

This does seem very unnecessary.

The release of ABBA Compilations has nothing to do with ABBA. Universal have the 'Rights' to all the ABBA songs that have already been released. It is Universal who are putting out the 'Number Ones' Set. It has collected ABBA Singles, that got to Number 1 around the World - but 5 ABBA Number One's are not even in the 2 CD Set - let alone on the single CD. (Oh, it was all supposed to be coming out in the UK on Monday 20th November. It is now coming out on Monday 6th November).

 

Benny & Bjorn are to blame only in that they refuse to allow Universal to do Remixes - or to do any themselves - so the same old ABBA songs come out time & time again.

 

It is coming out in 3 formats. A single CD, with 18 Tracks - 16 of which are on 'Gold' - which has already sold over 4 Million in the UK, anyhow. They have simply removed, 'Does Your Mother Know', 'Lay All Your Love On Me', & 'Thank You For The Music', & added 'I Do, I Do, I Do....', & 'Summer Night City', instead. (Some sources say that 'Ring Ring' will be on CD1 - Track 15. Others say that it will only be on the DVD).

 

Or you can buy the 2 CD Set, where CD1 is the same as before, but you get 12 Album Tracks on the 2nd CD - even though it could really fit 18 or 19 Tracks on it. None of the Tracks on CD2 made Number 1 - anywhere - nor were they even Singles anywhere. The 2nd CD is just to give people a taste of some of the Tracks off ABBA's Studio Albums.

 

Despite CD1 & CD2 having 30 Tracks between them, they miss off 5 of ABBA's International Number 1's - 'Ring Ring', 'Eagle', 'Does Your Mother Know', 'As Good As New', & 'Head Over Heels' - all 5 were Number 1 in at least one country.

 

There is a 'Number One's' DVD too. That has the 18 Tracks off CD1 - their Video Clips - plus 'Ring Ring'. There will also be bonus material on the DVD. At one stage it was said that a 2006 Animated Film had been made of, 'As Good As New' - to add to the DVD Set - but Universal now say that this was never true, & it is not on the DVD at all.

 

Basically the whole idea is very, very stupid, & as I said, even the Double CD misses off 5 of ABBA's Number 1's - so it has not even been thought out properly.

 

Benny & Bjorn refuse to do Remixes, as they say that it is like admitting they never got the songs right in the first place. (This is instead of thinking:, 'Let's do it for the Fans'.).

 

In the meantime, a Las Vegas Show called 'Love' has been staged for several Months, & it contains Remixes of many Beatles songs. George Martin - The Beatles Producer - was given permission - by Paul & Ringo - to Remix the songs. An Album of the Beatles Remixes is out in November, & it has 26 or 27 Tracks on it.

 

Benny & Bjorn won't do it for ABBA Fans, so we get, 'Number Ones' - the same old ABBA songs - in the same old versions.

 

It is just about the most stupid ABBA release in Years - and it is Universal who came up with it, & Benny & Bjorn who will not lift a finger to Remix anything for us.

 

They all ought to be ashamed of themselves.....

Edited October 24, 200618 yr by zeus555

Here is a Link to the ABBA Site 'News' about the Number One's CD & DVD.

 

It does not mention that 16 of the Tracks on CD1 are on 'Gold', & that it is being sold as both a Double CD, & a Single one - so the Single CD will only have 2 Tracks on it that Millions do not already have on 'Gold'!

 

They obviously think ABBA Fans are morons & mugs!

 

I have just looked more closely at the Catalogue Numbers & Details. It SEEMS to be saying that the UK version of the Single CD, will get 'Ring Ring' on it - plus the Extended 'Summer Night City'. But, it also seems to just say that they will only be on the Single CD in the UK - it does not mention that they will be on the Double CD at at all. Nor does it mention that they will be on the International Version - of the Single CD or the Double CD. They call the Single CD, the 'Standard' CD.

 

Why have they made it all so complicated? And if the Extended 'SNC', & 'Ring Ring', is on the UK Single CD, why did they not put it on the Double one too - and Internationally too? Why all the messing about with it?

 

http://www.abbasite.com/news/

Edited October 24, 200618 yr by zeus555

Don't think it will sell well anyway as so many people already have Gold.

I thought the deluxe edition of Arrival was going to be the next big ABBA reissue. What happened to that???

Hello,

Findingout - the Deluxe 'Arrival' came out in the UK, & the rest of Europe on Monday 16th October. It is not aimed at the 'General Public' - Universal know that only a few thousand ABBA Fan Collectors will buy 'Special Editions' of the old ABBA Albums.

 

Anyhow, it went into the Dutch Top 100 at Number 85, a few days ago. In the UK, it has gone into the Top 200 at Number 197. It sold 1,052 copies in the UK, (last week), to go in at Number 197.

 

The highest it has been, (since the OCC took over the Charts), is Number 160, in May 1999, around the time that 'Mamma Mia!' opened in London.

 

'Arrival' has sold 77,000 copies, in the UK, since February 1994. It is not in the UK's Top 100 Albums, (Best Sellers), which will be revealed in a 5 Hour VH1 Cable/Satellite TV Show on Saturday November 18th. The Sleeve Notes to the Deluxe Edition claim that it sold 2.4 Million in the UK, but this was a huge exaggeration by Epic Records in the early 1980's. I have inside information that it has not sold enough to be in the Top 100 UK Albums. ABBA have 2 Albums in it - 'Greatest Hits', (1976), & 'Gold'.

 

Universal see the 'Number One's' CD's (Single & Double), as one of their key/major releases of the last few Months of 2006. They said so at ther Annual Conference, in London, a few Months ago.

 

The trouble is, that nearly everything on the Single CD is on 'Gold', & the Double CD only has 12 Tracks on CD2 - when 18 or 19 Songs could have fitted on it.

 

The whole thing is stupid. Benny & Bjorn have a lot to do with it. They know very well that Universal like to keep releasing ABBA Compilations, but they refuse to let Universal either Remix or Extend anything by ABBA. Nor will they do it themselves.

 

They know very well that this means that the same old ABBA Songs keep coming out. So the 2 ABBA Guys do not care what the Fans would like, & Universal think it is OK to keep putting old ABBA Singles out - on Compilation after Compilation.

 

They are all as bad as each other. The Fans seem to come last in all of this.

Edited October 25, 200618 yr by zeus555

Arrival is one of the biggest selling LPs of all time in Australia. But Universal has been slack with the release of the deluxe edition here. We've had the Pulp deluxe editions (Pulp were hardly a chart act in Australia) but there's been no sign of the ABBA. :(

Oh i love a bit of ABBA. Playing right now on Radio Universe.