ABBA All The Top 40 Hits Craig Halstead 9781497315501 Books
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3rd Edition revised & up-dated to March 2018, now includes Benny's 'Piano' album. Before they won the Eurovision Song Contest in April 1974, few people outside Scandinavia had heard of ABBA – indeed, before Waterloo, the quartet were credited as ‘Björn Benny & Agnetha Frida’ on the few singles they released and on their debut album, as the name ABBA hadn’t been coined. Björn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida were all successful musicians in their own right, before they formed a group together, and they continued to enjoy success after ABBA ceased to exist, and the quartet went their separate ways. Incredibly, the four members of ABBA have scored more than a hundred Top 40 singles and over eighty Top 40 albums between them over the years, if their pre-ABBA and post-ABBA recordings are taken into account. For the purposes of this book, to qualify as a Top 40 hit, a single or album must have entered the Top 40 singles/albums chart in at least one of nineteen featured countries Australia, Austria, Belgium (Wallonia), Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland (singles only), Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zimbabwe. The Top 40 singles and albums are detailed chronologically, according to the date they first entered the chart in one or more of the featured countries. Each Top 40 single and album is illustrated and the catalogue numbers and release dates are detailed, for both Sweden and the UK, followed by the chart runs in each featured country, including any chart re-entries. Where full chart runs are unavailable, peak position and weeks on the chart are given. For both singles and albums, the main listing is followed by ‘The Almost Top 40 Singles/Albums’, which gives an honorable mention to ABBA and ABBA-related singles/albums that peaked between no.41 and no.50 in one or more countries. There is also a points-based list of the Top 40 ABBA and ABBA-related Singles and Albums, plus a fascinating ‘Trivia’ section at the end of each section which looks at the most successful ABBA and ABBA-related singles and albums in each of the featured countries.
ABBA All The Top 40 Hits Craig Halstead 9781497315501 Books
Very thorough journey through the worldwide top 40 hits of the Abba gang. I enjoyed the trip! A must for collectors of Abba related music on vinyl.Product details
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ABBA All The Top 40 Hits Craig Halstead 9781497315501 Books Reviews
Containing plenty of pictures (albeit only of print quality as these pictures appear on standard pages, not photographic quality pages - that would make it much more expensive), this book looks at Abba's music chronologically, but focusing on the singles first then starting again with the albums. Just about everything Abba-related is covered, using (it seems) data from as many countries as the author has been able to gather data for, which includes all the countries that most people are likely to be looking for. In covering just about everything Abba-related, the author has included the Hep Stars, the Hootenanny Singers, solo music by the individual members of Abba, other projects such as Chess and hits that other artists had with Abba songs, wherever they happened if they were in one of the countries that the author has covered.
I said just about everything, but he has not covered B-sides specifically, though most of them appear in the pictures or are mentioned in the text. Also, although he has unearthed some very obscure hits with Abba song, he has missed at least one that I know of - Cristy Lane's American top 20 country hit with I have a dream, which peaked at #17. Still, I'm not really surprised that he missed that so I'll let him off -)
I don't know how many non-hit covers there are of Abba's songs, but I don't come across that many (perhaps because I tend to buy mostly either pre-70s music or country music, neither of which are fertile territory for such music) but given that the author has researched a lot of hit covers, it might be an idea for the next edition to explore cover versions more. Is it possible to track down a good cover of every Abba song? Just a thought. Another seemingly unlikely cover of an Abba song that I know of is The way old friends do, by Irish singer Philomena Begley, and she does it very well too.
I'm sure the author would like to hear from anybody who can help him with countries omitted from this book, or which are given inadequate coverage, if you have such information. Meanwhile, this is a fascinating book that gives all sorts of information. It's even worth reading between the lines. I'd long ago heard that Australia was one of the first to become obsessed with Abba. It also seems they were one of the first to get over it, if one looks at their pop charts. I know that Abba themselves think they got better with each album, but while I like all their music, I think their music of 1975/6 was their best period. So, it seems, do a lot of Australians.
Abba fans will find plenty to amuse themselves in this book.
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I CANT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN, SO MUCH INFO AND SO INTRESTING, A MUST HAVE FOR ANY ABBA FANS OR FANS OF GREAT POP AND THOSE INTO CHART PEAL POSTITONS, WEAKS ON CHARTS AND WHOM WANT TO SEE HOW THEIR FAVORITE ABBA SONGS CHARTED IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES, IT ALL HERE
Its an awesome book, high in detail. if anyone wants to know anything about Abba music history, then look no further because its all in this book, this is a must buy!
Very thorough journey through the worldwide top 40 hits of the Abba gang. I enjoyed the trip! A must for collectors of Abba related music on vinyl.
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