ABBA

I stumbled upon this Swedish band a while ago and kinda liked the song called "What Now" (), but somehow I realized ALL of their songs sound exactly like they're trying to be ABBA. No offense, I enjoy listening to them since I like ABBA too, but can't help feeling that they're trying to be ABBA too much. What are your thoughts?

Like seriously??

THE WAIT IS OVER! I know we've all been waiting for this moment for years...

ABBA finally released their two new awaited songs, Don't Shut Me Down and I Still Have Faith In You. You can listen to them on their channel and .

In addition, ABBA announced they will be releasing TEN new songs! The new album will be released on November 11, 2021. EXCITING!

There will also be a hologram tour in London, tickets being released on September 7, 2021. You can also pre-order the album or register for early access to the tickets. All this new information can be found at .

DISCUSS! What do you think of the new music? Are you excited for the hologram tour and the new songs?

It's mine because for the first time I enjoyed, loved and adored EVERY SINGLE song of some artist and it happened witht them (maybe except ISIITM). I didn't know it was possible, but when I discovered that it's the case with them it was obvious that they're my favorite artists.

Hello , and welcome back to another round of Top Ten Pop Ten.

The group you'll send a top 10 list for this time is

This is a redo (of a redo). Links to the previous results: - .

Here is a rundown of their discography as a refresher:

• Ring Ring (1973)

• Waterloo (1974)

• ABBA (1975)

• Arrival (1976)

• The Album (1977)

• Voulez-Vous (1979)

• Super Trouper (1980)

• The Visitors (1981)

You can put non-album singles, unreleased songs, remixes (will be combined with the original song in the final results if the remix doesn't get significant amount of points) and collaborations where they are credited as "with/and" in your list too.

Please read the guidelines below if you haven't participated in TTPT before:

1. Comment below your top ten tracks from the featured artist(s) in order. Please write the song names correctly, that would help me a lot while calculating the results. If you have comments for songs, leave them before or after your list.

2. Your list should be written if you want it to be included in the results.

3. Keep in mind that the program reads the comment how you write it, not how we see it. Don't put full stops or commas after the song names. "Don't put quote marks around them," don't style them. , please. I won't correct any formatting mistakes manually.

4. The songs in your list gets 10 to 1 points based on its rank. The first song gets 10 points, and the last one gets 1. The results are revealed at the same time as the next TTPT is posted.

Results of Jack Antonoff Production and AOTY 2015 TTPT will be posted on July 1st.

TTPT will be weekly in July and August. Threads will be posted on Mondays as scheduled.

You can send your top ten lists for ABBA until Sunday (July 4), 5 PM ET / 9 PM GMT.

The schedule:

• July 1: AOTY 2016

• July 1: AOTY 2017

• July 5: Harry Styles

• July 12: Kanye West (Re-Redo)

• July 19: David Bowie

• July 26: Post Malone

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1. The Visitors

2. Super Trouper

3. Voulez-Vous

4. Voyage

5. ABBA

6. Arrival

7. The Album

8. Ring Ring

9. Waterloo

What do you think and what's yours?

Obviously, we’ve had a new album, which most of us thought would never happen, back in November 2021. They certainly don’t owe us anything more. Benny mentioned they’d recorded 12 songs for Voyage, and, as we know, Voyage had 10 songs on it. Which means there are two left in the can. I think Bobby’s Brother was alluding to it on one of his videos, but my hunch is they’ll release these last two songs to spearhead their 50th Eurovision anniversary releases, which will hopefully resemble a Beatles style anthology project but at this point we don’t know exactly what they’ll do. This I hope would also include old demos, outtakes and such. Then that’s it. Nothing more to say. Any thoughts?? Will they record more or are these two last songs - it?

Wrote a post last year for my blog that questioned why ABBA has gotten so much hate over the years, here.

Tl;dr - ABBA's mastery of pop progressions, melody, and harmony turned once disposable pop music into an art form in it of itself. Their influence on modern day pop artists is understated, but without these four swedes, pop music as we know it may not exist today.

Edit: I also wrote an album review on the compilation, ABBA: Gold, which has sold 30+ million copies since its release in 1992. It's a great place to start, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone out there unfamiliar with the band.