The Singles: The First Ten Years

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The Singles: The First Ten Years
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Compilation album by
ABBA
Released8 November 1982
RecordedJanuary 1973 – August 1982
Genre Pop
Length92:48
Label Polar (Sweden)
Epic (UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy)
Atlantic (US and Canada)
Polydor (Germany and Netherlands)
Vogue (France)
RCA (Australia and New Zealand)
Sunshine (South Africa)
Producer
ABBA chronology
The Visitors
(1981)		The Singles: The First Ten Years
(1982)		 Thank You for the Music: A Collection of Love Songs
(1983)
Singles from The Singles: The First Ten Years
  1. "The Day Before You Came"
    Released: 18 October 1982
  2. "Under Attack"
    Released: 3 December 1982
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 10/10 [4]

The Singles: The First Ten Years is a double compilation album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in November 1982. [5] [6]

Contents

History

The album contained most of the band's hit singles from their ten years together as recording artists, and included two new tracks: "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack". [7] The Singles: The First Ten Years was released on CD in Canada only by Atlantic Records in 1987, but was quickly deleted in 1988 when Atlantic's rights to the catalog expired. [8] In 2001, the album was replaced by The Definitive Collection . In the Spin Alternative Record Guide (1995), the compilation was ranked 80th on the book's list of the "Top 100 Alternative Albums". [9]

Richard Cook in the New Musical Express described the collection as a "documentation of the group who altered the course of pop more than anyone else. It resulted in a seam of unbroken, highly individual pop music that in lifespan terms is still unmatched." [10]

Track listing

All songs written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, except where noted. It was released as a 2 LP and double cassette. In 1983 a two CD version of the collection appeared on Polydor records, produced in West Germany. [11]

LP1
  1. "Ring Ring" – 3:04
  2. "Waterloo" - 2:42
  3. "So Long" – 3:05
  4. "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" – 3:16
  5. "SOS" – 3:22
  6. "Mamma Mia" – 3:31
  7. "Fernando" – 4:12
  8. "Dancing Queen" – 3:50
  9. "Money, Money, Money" – 3:06
  10. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" – 4:02
  11. "The Name of the Game" – 4:53
  12. "Take a Chance on Me" – 4:06
  13. "Summer Night City" – 3:34
LP2
  1. "Chiquitita" – 5:26
  2. "Does Your Mother Know" – 3:14
  3. "Voulez-Vous" – 5:08
  4. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" – 4:49
  5. "I Have a Dream" – 4:44
  6. "The Winner Takes It All" – 4:55
  7. "Super Trouper" – 4:13
  8. "One of Us" – 3:55
  9. "The Day Before You Came" – 5:50
  10. "Under Attack" – 3:47

Personnel

ABBA

Additional personnel

Production

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [22] Gold20,000^
Germany (BVMI) [23] Gold250,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [24] Platinum300,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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