ABBA was a Swedish pop cluster shaped in Stockholm in 1970 that consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog. They became one in every of the foremost commercially successful acts within the history of pop music, topping the charts worldwide from 1972 to 1982. ABBA has sold over 370 million records worldwide, that made them the fourth best-selling music artists in the history of recorded music, behind solely The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. They still sell between 2 to a few million albums a year. ABBA was the first pop group to come back from a non-English-speaking country that enjoyed consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the UK, the U.S., Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Philippines and New Zealand. The cluster additionally enjoyed important success in Latin American markets (particularly Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Argentina) and recorded a assortment of their hit songs in Spanish.
During the band's active years, Fältskog and Ulvaeus were a married couple, as were Lyngstad and Andersson–though both couples later divorced. At the height of their popularity, each relationships were suffering strain that ultimately resulted in the collapse of the Ulvaeus-Fältskog marriage in 1979 and therefore the Andersson-Lyngstad wedding in 1981. In the late Nineteen Seventies and early Eighties, these relationship changes began appearing within the cluster's music, as they produced a lot of introspective lyrics with different compositions.
After ABBA broke up early 1983, Andersson and Ulvaeus achieved success writing music for the stage while Lyngstad and Fältskog pursued individual solo careers with varying success. ABBA's music declined in popularity till several films, notably Muriel's Wedding and therefore the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, revived interest within the group, spawning several tribute bands. In 1999, ABBA's music was tailored into the successful musical Mamma Mia! that toured worldwide. A film of the same name released in 2008 became the very best-grossing film within the United Kingdom that year. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 15 March 2010.
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