SOS (ABBA song)

"SOS"
Single by ABBA
from the album ABBA
B-side"Man in the Middle"
ReleasedJune 1975
Recorded22–23 August 1974
StudioGlen Studio
Genre
Length3:22
LabelPolar (Sweden)
Epic (UK)
Atlantic (US)
Mushroom/Warner Bros. (Oceania)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Björn Ulvaeus
  • Benny Andersson
ABBA singles chronology
"Bang-A-Boomerang"
(1975)
"SOS"
(1975)
"Mamma Mia"
(1975)
Music video
"SOS" on YouTube

"SOS" is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released in June 1975 as the fifth single from their self-titled 1975 album.[3]

It was released with "Man in the Middle" as the B-side. Agnetha Fältskog, who sang lead, recorded the song in Swedish on her 1975 solo album Elva kvinnor i ett hus.[4] "SOS" was ABBA's first major worldwide hit since "Waterloo".

  1. ^ Stanley, Bob (2014). "See That Girl: Abba". Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 280.
  2. ^ Ruhlmann, William. Thank You for the Music (1995): Review at AllMusic. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  3. ^ Palm, Carl Magnus. (2005). Abba : the complete guide to their music. London: Omnibus Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 1-84449-505-1. OCLC 60589495.
  4. ^ "Agnetha Fältskog - Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus". Discogs. 1975. Retrieved 30 December 2020.