Episode 239: ABBA Gold
Elisabeth Vincentelli examined the 1992 greatest hits collection ABBA Gold for the music criticism book series 33 1/3. We discuss the book, our respective relationships with ABBA, and marvel at the band's influence on pop music 50 years after their Eurovision win.
ABBA Gold Summary
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The Weeknd’s big streaming milestone; ABBA Gold’s long chart run; Ready for friends to slide into your Spotify DMs?; Apple Music Radio expands; and Radiohead’s ‘Let Down’ gets a TikTok boost.Th
Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. In this week’s The Price of Music:
Steve takes over Big Number duties to reveal how many weeks ‘ABBA Gold’ has been in the UK’s album chart
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Music
Though we may have a hard time hearing it sometime, we still love music.
Album Rec: Abba Gold by Abba (duh) https://abba.lnk.to/abbagold92
Live at Carnegie Hall by Stevie Ray Vaughan https://srvofficial.com/music/live-carnegie-hall/
And because it's hard for us to NOT do a book rec, here's o...
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Your weekly guide to the music biz and how it all works. And in this week’s episode of The Price of Music, Steve and Stu grapple with:
Stu's Big Number is 11.5 million – but what does it have to do with Billie Eilish and a room full of billionaires?
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Best ABBA Song
Swedish band ABBA – made up of Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, and Anni-Frid – conquered the global record charts in the 1970s, and became one of the most successful music groups of all time, conservatively selling more than 150 million albums worldwide. After winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, ...
Splanc Albam Claisiceach: ABBA Gold
50 bliain ó bhain Abba barr na cairte amach le Mamma Mia, labhraíonn Louisa Ní Éideán agus Cuán faoi ABBA Gold - ceann de na halbaim is rathúla riamh.
Album #69: ABBA Gold
This week The Guys are listening to ABBA's 1992 greatest hits album "Gold". Come and listen to The Guys try really hard to pronounce all of the northern European names, and have a few laughs while they talk about another disco album.
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