Number Ones (ABBA album)

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Number Ones
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Compilation album by
ABBA
Released20 November 2006 (2006-11-20)
RecordedMarch 1972 – November 1981
Genre Pop
Length73:39
Label Polar
Producer
ABBA chronology
The Complete Studio Recordings
(2005)		Number Ones
(2006)		 The Albums
(2008)
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Number Ones is a compilation album of recordings by Swedish pop group ABBA, released by Polar Music in 2006.

Contents

Whereas ABBA Gold pulls together 19 of the group's biggest hits and most familiar songs, Number Ones is a variation on this concept, collecting 18 tracks that were #1 hits in many of the countries where ABBA were successful. In the end, only three tracks from ABBA Gold do not make the cut: "Does Your Mother Know", "Lay All Your Love on Me", and "Thank You for the Music".

In the UK, the track list includes the full length version of "Summer Night City" (originally released on the Thank You for the Music box set) and an additional track "Ring Ring", which, oddly enough, was never a big hit in that territory.

A limited edition, also released in the UK, includes a bonus disc with 12 tracks from ABBA's #1 albums.

In Taiwan, a hidden track follows "I Have a Dream". This hidden track, titled "ABBA Remix" and running for 3:31, is a medley of the choruses of the 18 songs on the CD.

Track listing

International track listing

  1. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
  2. "Mamma Mia"
  3. "Dancing Queen"
  4. "Super Trouper"
  5. "SOS"
  6. "Summer Night City"
  7. "Money, Money, Money"
  8. "The Winner Takes It All"
  9. "Chiquitita"
  10. "One of Us"
  11. "Knowing Me, Knowing You"
  12. "Voulez-Vous"
  13. "Fernando"
  14. "Waterloo"
  15. "The Name of the Game"
  16. "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"
  17. "Take a Chance on Me"
  18. "I Have a Dream"

UK track listing

  1. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
  2. "Mamma Mia"
  3. "Dancing Queen"
  4. "Super Trouper"
  5. "SOS"
  6. "Summer Night City (Extended version)"
  7. "Money, Money, Money"
  8. "The Winner Takes It All"
  9. "Chiquitita"
  10. "One of Us"
  11. "Knowing Me, Knowing You"
  12. "Voulez-Vous"
  13. "Fernando"
  14. "Waterloo"
  15. "Ring Ring"
  16. "The Name of the Game"
  17. "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"
  18. "Take a Chance on Me"
  19. "I Have a Dream"

Limited Edition Bonus Disc: Classic Tracks from Number Ones albums

  1. "When I Kissed the Teacher"
  2. "Hole in Your Soul"
  3. "Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)"
  4. "Me and I"
  5. "The King Has Lost His Crown"
  6. "Rock Me"
  7. "Tiger"
  8. "I Wonder (Departure)"
  9. "Another Town, Another Train"
  10. "Our Last Summer"
  11. "Kisses of Fire"
  12. "Slipping Through My Fingers"

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [17]
video 		Platinum15,000^
Germany (BVMI) [18] Gold100,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png
New Zealand (RMNZ) [19]
DVD 		Gold2,500^
Poland (ZPAV) [20] Gold10,000*
Russia (NFPF) [21] Platinum20,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [22] Gold100,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Double-dagger-14-plain.png Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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