ABBA Drops 'Voyage,' First Album In 40 Years

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www.foxnews.com/entertainment/abba-drops-voyage-first-album-40-years

ABBA drops 'Voyage,' first album in 40 years

The 'Mamma Mia' band had broken up in 1982

By Jessica Napoli


ABBA has dropped its first album in four decades.

The Swedish pop group consisting of Benny Andersson, Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog, and Bjorn Ulvaeus confirmed "Voyage" has officially been released.

The band announced their studio return via Twitter back in September after initially teasing something could be coming soon.

"We are on our way back! Thank you for waiting," ABBA tweeted. "#ABBAVoyage is the concert we've always wanted to perform for our fans. The journey is about to begin!"

"Voyage" is slated to release Nov. 5 and the group is billing their concert series as "revolutionary," seeing as they’ve "been digitised using state-of-the-art motion capture technology," a follow-up tweet said.

The "Dancing Queen" performers, who had broken up in 1982, created an "Abbatars" concert and album concept back in 2016, which was designed by the visual effects company Industrial Light and Magic, founded by "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, according to The Guardian.

Fans have been anxiously awaiting the first new music in nearly four decades from the iconic Swedish pop band — which has earned a reported $2 billion in a career that’s spanned arena stages, 400 million records sold, the Broadway stage and movie screens.

For its concert series set to begin next May, the group will play six nights a week in a custom-built venue at London’s Olympic Park with ABBA band members appearing in digital form while a 10-piece live band will play in real-time.

[Forum Lord]

This is amazing! ABBA is back!

Now I was not a huge fan of them, but I did listen to some of their music and songs back in the day and today I can say this about ABBA...

Their past music represents some very difficult engineering processes. And ABBA was basically the only group on the planet who were recording the way that they did which was unique back then. Today it is more common, but this group was a pioneer of sorts in the recording world and still studied to this day!

You can learn about it in their documentaries on how truly difficult engineering this band group was:

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Nov 5, 2021 9:02:47 GMT -5 Forum Lord said:

Fans have been anxiously awaiting the first new music in nearly four decades from the iconic Swedish pop band — which has earned a reported $2 billion in a career that’s spanned arena stages, 400 million records sold, the Broadway stage and movie screens.

Think about this for a second! How big and famous is Skynyrd? Here's how:

lynyrdskynyrd.com/band

"With a catalog of over 60 albums, sales beyond 30 million worldwide"

And now ABBA:

"$2 billion in a career that’s spanned arena stages, 400 million records sold"



TEN TIMES SKYNYRD!!!

Excuse my poor math...

13.3333333... TIMES SKYNYRD!

ABBA surely does not need the money! So it must be about the music huh?

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Dang its already hit the web!



blog.dnevnik.hr/zinhof?page=blog&subdomain=zinhof

ABBA - Voyage (2021)

Voyage is the ninth studio album by Swedish group ABBA, released on 5 November 2021. It is the group's first album of new material in 40 years following The Visitors (1981) and contains 10 songs all composed by ABBA's songwriters, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. The album was supported by a double A-sided single release, "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down", released alongside the album announcement on 2 September 2021. A digital concert residency, also called ABBA Voyage, will take place in London beginning May of 2022.

ABBA unofficially split up in 1982 following the release of their eighth studio album, The Visitors, on 30 November 1981. Renewed interest in the band grew from the 1990s onwards following the worldwide success of their greatest hits album ABBA Gold, the ABBA-based musical Mamma Mia! and the subsequent film of the same name, and the use of their songs in some other film soundtracks such as Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

However, the members steadfastly refused to reunite. In 2000, they reportedly turned down an offer of $1 billion to perform again. In July 2008, Björn Ulvaeus categorically stated to The Sunday Telegraph, "We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to re-group." Ulvaeus reiterated this in a 2014 interview while promoting the publication of ABBA: The Official Photo Book.

On 6 June 2016, however, ABBA did informally reunite, singing "The Way Old Friends Do" at a private party in Stockholm. This led to a more formal reunion. Two years later, in April 2018, they announced they had recorded two new songs, "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down". During the album announcement live stream, ABBA also announced that a concert residency, known as ABBA Voyage, is scheduled to begin in May 2022 and last until December 2022 at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

Download:

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[billyb]

It sounds great. Unbelievable for people in their 70's. These are songs I will actually listen to. Unlike everything Skynyrd and McCartney has put out for the last 20 years. Well done.

[JerseyGirl]

Nov 5, 2021 9:09:41 GMT -5 Forum Lord said:

Think about this for a second! How big and famous is Skynyrd? Here's how:

lynyrdskynyrd.com/band

"With a catalog of over 60 albums, sales beyond 30 million worldwide"

And now ABBA:

"$2 billion in a career that’s spanned arena stages, 400 million records sold"

About 85% of Skynyrd's 60 albums did not make gold. Plus they are not every good.