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ABBA's Official Top 20 biggest songs

Swedish pop superstars ABBA have announced there releasing a new album called 'Voyage', there first with totally new music in 39 years.

There's not many bands with as healthy a chart pedigree as ABBA, and the Swedish quartet's singles are almost national treasures in their own way. The band's global domination from the mid-seventies to the early eighties, followed by subsequent revivals in decades to come, means ABBA's classic hits are known to millions, across generations.

During their imperial phase, ABBA scored 25 Top 40 hits in the UK, including 19 Top 10s, of which nine went all the way to Number 1 – over the space of nine years.

Here's the biggest hits of the Swedish icons, according to the Official Charts Company.

Out in front is Dancing Queen, the third consecutive chart-topper for the band in 1976 – spending six weeks there to be their longest running Number 1. It was re-released in 1992, to accompany their greatest hits ABBA Gold, becoming their 26th official Top 40 hit. It is ABBA's only million-seller and therefore their biggest single, with 1.65 million chart sales, including 93 million streams since 2014.

Up second is Super Trouper, their final Number 1 in 1980, taken from the album of the same name, which spent two weeks at the top and has 1.05 million chart sales, made up of 978,000 pure sales and 38 million streams. Taking the bronze is Knowing Me, Knowing You, the band's fifth Number 1, racking up five weeks at Number 1 in spring 1977 and picking up 1.02 million chart sales to date.

Fourth is Take A Chance On Me, which became their seventh Number 1 in 1978 – they had to wait over two and half years for another one – and has 950,000 chart sales (including 882,000 pure sales) to date. In fifth place comes the ultimate weepie The inner Takes It All, a chart-topper in 1980, with 920,000 chart sales. 

ABBA's Official Top 20 biggest songs

  1. DANCING QUEEN          
  2. SUPER TROUPER        
  3. KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU
  4. TAKE A CHANCE ON ME
  5. FERNANDO
  6. THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL
  7. MAMMA MIA
  8. THE NAME OF THE GAME
  9. CHIQUITITA
  10. GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT)
  11. WATERLOO
  12. I HAVE A DREAM
  13. ANGEL EYES / VOULEZ VOUS
  14. DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW
  15. ONE OF US
  16. MONEY MONEY MONEY
  17. LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME
  18. SUMMER NIGHT CITY
  19. S.O.S.
  20. THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC

©2021 Official Charts Company.