passthatdutch
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ISHFIY at 14 and DSMD top 10, yay!
There's something wrong with themWhat a fucking random collection of songs to hit #1! @RaspberrySwirl please explain.
The NERVE!Fewer singles were apparently released in Sweden.
That being said, Waterloo, Fernando, Name of the Game, Chiquitita, and Winner Takes It All were all #2s. (Day Before You Came the only other top 5 single).
Yes, that's what I've read, I think. And in fairness, pretty much how they operated under Stig Anderson, who very much ran them as a business, forging different deals all over the world.I wasn’t around to take responsibility for their number ones here but they actually were a bit disliked/controversial here at first, in some circles. Their music was considered commenrsial and this being the 70’s in an already leftist Sweden, some people saw them as a symbol for capitalism.
OT: The official Swedish chart website is so much better than ours. I could spend hours looking through these bizarre charts.
I’m in 2004: Gunter and the Sunshine Girls have just knocked off Det gör ont, with a song called Teeny Weeny String Bikini. And now Dragostea Din Tei is at the top, but it’s a cover version.Oh for the days when Nanne and Linda would storm into the top 5 one week due to a single well-attended CD signing down in Åhlens only to crash down to #52 the next.
Perhaps surprisingly, the new songs seem to have made less of an impact in Australia
#27 for Don't Shut Me Down, #39 for I Still Have Faith In You
I'm fascinated by the songs that kept their #2s off #1.
The Name of the Game was beaten by noted prog rock epic YES SIR I CAN BOOGIE
Chiquitita by Hallelujah by Milk & Honey, which frankly FAIR ENOUGH
Fernando was pipped to the top by THIS CATCHY DITTY
And in a bizarre act of extremely one-sided cultural exchange, while The Winner Takes It All was #1 in the UK, it was blocked in Sweden by THIS HORROR
Summer Night City is one of their best thoughDon’t Shut Me Down has become ABBA’s fourth ever Swedish number one, after Ring Ring, Dancing Queen and Summer Night City.
(I Still Have Faith In You is #2).
I think they have certainly said they aren't happy with the finished product and that it shouldn't have been a single.Don’t B&B famously hate Summer Night City? As a child it always struck me as being a bit SORDID and certainly NOT what I was expecting from such a previously wholesome foursome
Actually, should we cancel them now for glorifying slavery or something?Oh God THAT
I think On Top Of Old Smokey is the main crimeActually, should we cancel them now for glorifying slavery or something?