Greatest Hits (ABBA album)

This article is about the 1975 album. Not to be confused with the 1992 album Gold: Greatest Hits.
Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
ABBA
Released17 November 1975
RecordedMarch 1972 – September 1975
GenrePop
Length48:00
LabelPolar (Sweden)
Epic (UK)
Atlantic (US)
Universal Music (2006 reissue)
Producer
ABBA chronology
The Best of ABBA
(1975) 		Greatest Hits
(1975) 		Arrival
(1976)
Alternative cover
UK/North American Cover
Singles from Greatest Hits
  1. "Fernando"
    Released: March 1976
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Christgau's Record GuideC+[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally released in Scandinavia on 17 November 1975[4] and in other parts of the world in 1976, notably the UK on 10 April, and on 18 September in the US and Canada. The 1976 version of the album included the band's most recent single "Fernando".

The album was released in response to similar ABBA compilation albums being issued at the time by record labels in other countries. They had licensed ABBA's music for release in their own territories, and there was a threat that the import sales of those compilations would impact ABBA's home market.[citation needed] Therefore, the success of the album was largely confined to Scandinavia and the UK.[citation needed]

Greatest Hits was the best-selling album of 1976 in the UK, and the country's second-best selling album of the decade. It would become one of ABBA's best-selling albums worldwide.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: A". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 12 September 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-84609-856-7.
  3. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 3.
  4. ^ Palm, Carl Magnus (2006). Greatest Hits (30th Anniversary Edition) (booklet). ABBA. Polar Music. 987 715-6.