Dutch Gossip!?: new Abba single

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Emmanuelle - 26.01.2012, 19:41

Feh. I bet it's that medley, too. How gossip grows... :roll:

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platobird - 26.01.2012, 21:01

It says "From a Twinkling Star to a Passing Angel" will be on Visitors Deluxe. It also says the DVD will have new material on it. I'd better get this on order quick before you guys buy them all. :lol:

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uma - 27.01.2012, 17:29

I've heard the same news in prime time national news on TV (!!).
There was a picture of the four standing together on the balcony of Benny's hotel (MM premiere).
The Visitors de luxe will include new unreleased track "From a twinkling star to a passing angel" and 6 aditional tracks with DVD with the last concert (?) :shock: :shock:
I'm quitre surprised and do not take this news very seriously. I will wait and see and hope for the best.

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uma - 27.01.2012, 18:08

Obviously not only Dutch press... :wink:

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Carribean - 27.01.2012, 19:26

One very serious Dutch newspaper that uses Rolling Stone magazine as a source:

http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/3380/muziek/article/detail/3139142/2012/01/26/ABBA-brengt-na-18-jaar-nieuwe-single-uit.dhtml

And in Belgium they have the same single news:

http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20120126_131

I don't care. Always nice to see ABBA in the news when it is about their music!

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aggie-fan - 27.01.2012, 20:17

it was in my cities news paper yesterday. saying "new song by abba" little do people know (in my city) its just an unreleased song from 30 years ago. just so they can sell more records for this album. I can see why record companies come out with "unreleased songs" on completion albums for artists that have passed away, but abba have not. they should just come back together for their fans or just all together stop coming out saying its a new song, when infact it was recorded 3 decades ago.

I will not be wasting my money on a record to hear a "new" song, i will just listen to it on youtube when it gets on there. Not going to waste my money on a record that is only made to get more money out of doing absolutely nothing.

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platobird - 27.01.2012, 21:34

OMG, this even made Yahoo News over here. :shock: It says:

ABBA fans will soon again be saying "Thank you for the music" with the release of a new track on a special edition of the disbanded 70's pop group's "The Visitors" album. The record, including new track "From a Twinkling Star to a Passing Angel," is the first official new release by the Swedish group in 18 years. Universal Music Group spokeswoman Mia Segolsson said Friday that the special edition of "The Visitors" — originally released in 1981 — will be available in stores from April 23.

ABBA — Agnetha Faeltskog, Benny Andersson, Bjoern Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad — split in 1982. The band has never reunited. Known for catchy hits in the 70s and 80s — such as "Dancing Queen," and "Money, Money, Money" — ABBA have sold 400 million records worldwide.

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Ralph, Amsterdam - 28.01.2012, 00:10
Dutch talkshow 'Pauw & Witteman' about ABBA
Last night on Dutch public TV the serious late night talkshow Pauw & Witteman had an item about ABBA and the forthcoming release 'Visitors deluxe'. Former tv host Ad Visser (now 64 and once host from the mega popular musicshow TOPPOP) talked about why ABBA was so succesfull. He said that the boys wrote fantastic songs (and kept on doing that after ABBA), but only in combination with the voices of the girls ABBA could produce a sound that made them worldfamous. He also stated that an old 1981-song will be released as a new single. Clips of several ABBA songs were shown. 'The day before you came' was reviewed as one their very best.

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iancee - 28.01.2012, 04:09

Those bastions of truth at News Corp in Australia are reporting ABBA's "first single release in 18 years"

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/music/abbas-first-single-release-in-18-years/story-e6frexl9-1226254686629

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Geordiegirl - 28.01.2012, 22:38

Well at least The Times here almost got it right today, they refer to it being a new track (which it is), but don't mention that it is a medley of demos at all, so countless people are going to get the wrong idea. At least they didn't say it was a new song or single. Gill

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Carribean - 29.01.2012, 23:21

I Let The Music Speak wrote: The boundaries are blurred these days though. If the new track is available to download individually then it could chart as a single. If it does, it would only make the lower reaches. It won't be a top 40 hit.

Very blurry indeed and it is funny how the Dutch press ran with it. Another popular Dutch tv show even opened with the news of a new single.

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onlyabba4me - 31.01.2012, 16:33

I See.

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onlyabba4me - 01.02.2012, 12:49

OK.

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Hades - 01.02.2012, 20:12

Carribean wrote:
I do not think that ABBA should release any new single nor should they ever record again as ABBA.

My thoughts exactly. As far as I'm concerned, ABBA as an active group is a thing of the past.

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I Let The Music Speak - 01.02.2012, 21:58

^^^ Unlikely, Marnix. At least in the UK. Old songs already available to download individually on iTunes would not have a market. I certainly wouldn't download a track I already own umpteen times physically. An unreleased track from 30 years ago or more might just make the lower reaches. We are in the download era now and it's much harder for established acts to have hits. So many people would illegally download (ripping from YouTube is included in this).

If ABBA did re-group and record, then the amount of media interest would probably be enough to give them a hit as long as it was done right.

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onlyabba4me - 01.02.2012, 23:35

I agree with Marnix. The truth is that very few people know most
of the ABBA Songs that are not on 'Gold'. When they do hear them,
they like them - which is why Download Sales of 'Slipping Through
My Fingers' etc., went up in 2008 - due to people hearing it, for
the first time, in the 'Mamma Mia!' Film.

ABBA do not have to be together, for an old Album Track to be
a Hit. The Video can be a Cartoon, or Computer Generated.
Indeed, it is now possible to create ABBA, (as they were in
the 1970's), & make it look like they are in a New Video.
We can have a Computer Generated ABBA! I'm sure that
ABBA would refuse to allow that. It would feel like someone
was trying to 'own' them as people - almost.

Sadly, all that ever gets Promoted, (to be honest), are the 19
Tracks on 'Gold'. With about 8 to 10 other ABBA Songs being
almost as well known.

I can tell you how little is known about ABBA's Recordings. One
of my Friends - Darren - used to work at The Official Charts Company.
In 2006, they got a copy of '18 Hits' sent to them, by Universal.
They were amazed to hear ABBA singing in other Languages. It
was the first time that any of their Staff had known that ABBA
recorded in Swedish, Spanish, French, & German. They liked
them too. Darren thought that it was terrific to hear them.

And those Staff had worked in the UK Music Industry for Years.
No wonder that the 'General Public', knows even less about ABBA
Songs, when even the UK Chart people knew so little about them!

I understand the argument, that it is up to Benny & Bjorn, if we can
have the unreleased Songs. That is fine. It does not really bother me,
that this leaves Universal no other choice, except to keep on putting out
Compilations of old ABBA Singles. Some Fans don't get it - why
Universal do that. The answer is that they want to keep making money
out of ABBA, & as Benny & Bjorn hardly ever assist them in that,
they see no other choice - the same old Singles have to be the
money-makers.

So, anyone who feels that ABBA owe the Fans 'nothing', are
entitled to think that. But - they must also accept that we will
see old ABBA Singles - on Compilations - in the future. And
there is no use any Fans complaining, when they do get released,
as that is, (mainly), all that we are going to get.

I think that only World War III will see an end to ABBA Compilations
being released.....

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I Let The Music Speak - 02.02.2012, 08:40

onlyabba4me wrote: I agree with Marnix. The truth is that very few people know most of the ABBA Songs that are not on 'Gold'. When they do hear them, they like them - which is why Download Sales of 'Slipping Through
My Fingers' etc., went up in 2008 - due to people hearing it, for
the first time, in the 'Mamma Mia!'
Mamma Mia! was a phenomenally successful film, and Slipping Through My Fingers was readily available to download individually, and yet where did it get to in the chart? The lower reaches? Films have long been known to promote singles - just ask Bryan Adams - but Mamma Mia! was the highest grossing film in UK box office history and yet still couldn't make it a hit! Maybe before the download era it could have been, who knows, but not now.

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I Let The Music Speak - 04.02.2012, 19:18

Seanie(: wrote: I agree, most people don't know Abba after the Gold songs. My parents all know Lay All Your Love On Me, and yet they don't know Summer Night City. They know I Have A Dream, yet they don't know Under Attack :roll:
I just think that if people want to know more, they can check YouTube. I struggle with the idea of releasing an album track as a single in this day and age.

When The Albums was released a few years ago, HMV were selling it in-store for £15 for quite a while. 99 tracks for that amount is excellent value (£1.67 per album) but once that's been done, trying to sell individual album tracks for 99p each (and not even physically) is a no-brainer.