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Let's ABBA Party!

Nicki Chapman celebrates the music of ABBA in a special show featuring many of their hits, and specially recorded interviews with founding members and associates.

Nicki Chapman presents a two-hour special featuring a non-stop mix of classic hits, covers, and selections from the cast recordings and film soundtracks.
ABBA have sold in excess of 400m albums and singles since they first came to prominence in 1974.
At their commercial zenith in the late ‘70s, they were reputedly second only to Volvo in their contribution to Sweden’s exports. Such was the demand for their music that their management had to arrange for royalties from the Soviet Union to be paid in oil commodity rights rather than the embargoed rouble.
Fast forward to the 2020s, and the promise of the first new ABBA music in over thirty years, a world tour featuring state-of-the-art holograms of Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Frida, and even a themed restaurant in London.
This is another chance to enjoy Let's Abba Party! - the ultimate excuse to say Thank You For The Music to one of the most successful groups in pop history.
Plus, we run down a specially commissioned chart ranking UK sales of their eight studio albums from Waterloo to The Visitors.
Presented by Nicki Chapman
Written and produced for Radio 2 by Malcolm Prince.
(First broadcast in 2019.)

1 hour, 57 minutes

Music Played

  • ABBA

    People Need Love

    • The Definitve Collection CD1.
    • Polydor Limited.
    • 1.
  • ABBA

    People Need Love

  • ABBA

    Under Attack

    • The Singles (The First Ten Years).
    • Epic.
    • 1.
  • ABBA

    Fernando

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 012.
  • ABBA

    Summer Night City

    • Abba - More Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
  • ABBA

    I Have A Dream

    • ABBA Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 007.
  • ABBA

    The Name Of The Game

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
  • Cher

    Mamma Mia

    • Dancing Queen.
    • Warner Bros. Records.
  • Cher

    Mamma Mia

  • ABBA

    Lay All Your Love On Me

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 005.
  • ABBA

    Ring Ring (Swedish Version)

  • ABBA

    Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)

  • ABBA

    S.O.S.

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
    • 010.
  • ABBA

    When All Is Said And Done

    • The Visitors.
    • Atlantic.
    • 3.
  • ABBA

    Take a Chance on Me

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 003.
  • ABBA

    Just A Notion

  • ABBA

    Just A Notion (Out-take)

    • Just A Notion (demo).
  • ABBA

    Move On

    • Ultimate Collection.
    • Universal.
  • ABBA

    Money, Money, Money

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 009.
  • Meryl Streep

    The Winner Takes It All

    • Mamma Mia: The Movie Soundtrack.
    • Polydor.
    • 14.
  • Meryl Streep

    The Winner Takes It All

  • Cher, Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Andy García, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies, Josh Dylan, Jeremy Irvine & Hugh Skinner

    Super Trouper

    • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Polydor.
    • 017.
  • Lily James, Jessica Keenan Wynn & Alexa Davies

    Mamma Mia

  • Cher, Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth & Stelland Skarsgard

    Super Trouper

  • ABBA

    Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 014.
  • ABBA

    Voulez-Vous

    • Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
    • 013.
  • ABBA

    Thank You For The Music

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 018.
  • ABBA

    Our Last Summer

  • ABBA

    Knowing Me, Knowing You

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 002.
  • ABBA

    Arrival

  • ABBA

    Dancing Queen

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 001.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 22 Apr 2019 12:00
  • Sun 17 May 2020 17:00
  • Sun 3 Oct 2021 02:00