ABBA NEWS

The success of ABBA's latest LP "Super Trouper" has been enormous. The sales in England are now exceeding 1.7 million copies - it stayed at no. 1 for 8 consecutive weeks, in Germany over 800,000 copies, in Sweden 360,000 copies, in France and Belgium 450,000 copies, in Japan 180,000 copies, in Canada 400,000 copies - which is four times platinum - and in the U.S. over 550,000 copies. It is now climbing the charts very quickly in the U.S. - this week at no. 20 in Billboard, no. 22 in Cashbox and no. 27 in Record World - all with bullets. The LP has also reached quadro-platinum in Argentina, double platinum in New Zealand, platinum in Australia - it is currently roaring up the Australian charts - etc etc. It has been no. 1 on most charts in Europe and is still high in many countries.

The single "Super Trouper" has also been a tremendous success. The sales in England alone are close to 1 million copies, the sales in Germany close to 450,000 copies, and it has topped all the European charts for many weeks. The single release in Australia and Japan has been "On And On And On", and this has also been a great single hit for ABBA in these countries. The current single in the U.S. is "The Winner Takes It All" and is moving up the charts very nicely - this week at no. 16 in Billboard, no. 21 in Cashbox and no. 31 in Record World - al with bullets. On the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts , this single is right now no. 1.

Apart from the U.S. and Canada, there will not be any more single releases from this L.P. Björn and Benny will now start writing again, and there will hopefully be a brand new single out end of March or beginning of April.

ABBA are also planning to record a TV-special in Stockholm in April. This special will be kind of an ABBA-10-Years-Special. It is now ten years since Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid performed together for the first time. We are right now negotiating with a well-known American artist to be the interviewer in this programme. There will be live material as well as filmed numbers mixed with older material.

There is already now a 30 minutes documentary available of ABBA consisting of some of our latest promo films together with interviews with all four members. This documentary (all in English) is available on 2" video tape or video cassette from us.

ABBA's Spanish single "Andante, Andante" c/w "Felicidad" (Spanish version of "Happy New Year") is now being released in most Spanish speaking territories, and the initial reaction is very promising. These two tracks in Spanish are also included on the LP "Super Trouper" when released in Spanish speaking territories.

ABBA have just returned from a short trip to New York, where they have been watching what is happening as far as musicals, concerts etc are concerned in the U.S. Back in Stockholm, it is time to start writing and producing again. So it seems there will not be time for Björn to go on any honey-moon yet. He and his newley
wedded wife Lena will have to wait!

Stockholm February 3rd 1981 Görel Hanser

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