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Greatest hits album by ABBA
Released 21 September 1992
Recorded December 1973 – October 1981
Genre Europop
Length 76:40 (1992)
79:08 (1999–present)
Label PolyGram (1992–1997)
Universal (1998–present)
Producer
Benny AnderssonBjörn Ulvaeus
ABBA chronology
ABBA Live
(1986) ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits
(1992) Oro: Grandes Éxitos
(1992)

ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released on 21 September 1992 through PolyGram, making it the first compilation to be released after the company had acquired Polar Music, and thus the rights to the ABBA back catalogue.

With sales of 30 million,[1] Gold: Greatest Hits is the best-selling ABBA album, as well one of the best-selling albums worldwide. Since 1992, it has been re-released several times, most notably in 1999 as the first remastered reissue to mark the group`s 25th anniversary of winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, in 2008 to coincide with the release of the film Mamma Mia!, in 2014 to mark the group`s 40th anniversary of winning the Eurovision Song Contest, and most recently in 2022 to commemorate the album`s 30th anniversary.[2][3]

Background and overview
In 1989, Stig Anderson, ABBA’s manager and sometime songwriting partner, sold Polar Music to PolyGram (which was bought by Universal Music in the late `90s).[4][2] Before that, Polar had only produced and distributed ABBA`s records in Scandinavian countries, licensing the recordings for release by different companies around the world (such as Atlantic in the US and Epic in the UK).[citation needed] This meant there were many different compilations released in different parts of the world. As these licenses were renewed every three years, and, between 1989 and 1992, had all expired, something PolyGram waited for before releasing any new ABBA compilations.[4] PolyGram made all of the original studio albums available (along with the 1986 live album which had originally been issued by Polydor worldwide), while all previously released ABBA compilations had been deleted.[citation needed]

In the summer of 1992, Erasure had released a 4 track ABBA cover EP, titled Abba-esque, which topped charts around the world and showed that there was still a strong interest in ABBA`s music.[citation needed] Rather than issue the multiple previous compilations, PolyGram put together a new collection, optimized for the CD format.[4]

This new release was compiled by PolyGram International’s Chris Griffin and Jackie Stansfield, Polydor UK’s George McManus, Ingemar Bergman of Sweden Music and Polar in Sweden, and music journalist John Tobler, who also wrote the album`s liner notes.[4] Chris Griffin tried to sequence the tracks as if it were a radio show: the album starts with `Dancing Queen`, the band`s most famous song, and then journeys through ballads, fun hits and dance classics, before it ends with `Waterloo`, a nod to the group’s international breakthrough in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.[4]

The album contains a selection of tracks from ABBA`s discography, including three tracks each from Arrival, ABBA: The Album and Super Trouper, four from Voulez-Vous, two from ABBA, and one each from Waterloo and The Visitors. Additionally, it features the singles `Fernando` and `Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)`, released on Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits Vol. 2, respectively.[4]

Gold: Greatest Hits was well received by the music-buying public, and went on to be one of the best-selling albums of all time.[citation needed]

Original 1992 release
No. Title Writer(s) Original album Length
1. `Dancing Queen`
AnderssonStig AndersonUlvaeus
Arrival (1976) 3:49
2. `Knowing Me, Knowing You`
AnderssonAndersonUlvaeus
Arrival 4:01
3. `Take a Chance on Me` ABBA: The Album (1977) 4:01
4. `Mamma Mia`
AnderssonAndersonUlvaeus
ABBA (1975) 3:32
5. `Lay All Your Love on Me` Super Trouper (1980) 4:32
6. `Super Trouper` Super Trouper 4:10
7. `I Have a Dream` Voulez-Vous (1979) 4:43
8. `The Winner Takes It All` Super Trouper 4:54
9. `Money, Money, Money` Arrival 3:05
10. `SOS`
AnderssonAndersonUlvaeus
ABBA 3:19
11. `Chiquitita` Voulez-Vous 5:26
12. `Fernando`
AnderssonAndersonUlvaeus
Greatest Hits (1976) 4:10
13. `Voulez-Vous` Voulez-Vous 4:21
14. `Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)` Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1979) 4:46
15. `Does Your Mother Know` Voulez-Vous 3:14
16. `One of Us` The Visitors (1981) 3:53
17. `The Name of the Game`
AnderssonAndersonUlvaeus
ABBA: The Album 3:56
18. `Thank You for the Music` ABBA: The Album 3:51
19. `Waterloo`
AnderssonAndersonUlvaeus
Waterloo (1974) 2:42
Total length: 1:16:25

Personnel
ABBA

Agnetha Fältskog – vocals
Anni-Frid Lyngstad – vocals
Björn Ulvaeus – steel-string, acoustic guitar, vocals
Benny Andersson – synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
Production

Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus – producers
Michael B. Tretow – engineer, digital remastering (1992 edition)
Jon Astley – digital remastering (1999, 2002, 2004 reissues)
Henrik Jonsson – digital remastering (2008 reissue)
Chris Griffin – compilation
Jackie Stansfield – compilation
George McManus – compilation
John Waller – compilation
Ingemar Bergman – compilation
John Tobler – 1992 liner notes, compilation
Icon – design
Carl Magnus Palm – liner notes (1999, 2002, 2004, 2008 reissues)