Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Two versions of ABBA’s Gold reenter the U.K. charts, with the ...

Swedish pop group Abba, wearing kimonos, 1976. Left to right: Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Frida Lyngstad and Benny Andersson. ABBA scores yet another successful album with their new compilation, ...

The new pressing is to celebrate the album's 50th anniversary and the Swedish quartet's 1974 Eurovision win. It will even include the album's title track in four different languages. Good morning, I'm ...

Lasse Wellander, who played guitar on seven ABBA albums and was a staple of the Swedish pop group’s tours, has died at age 70, the band confirmed in an online tribute. Wellander died Friday after a ...

Admit it. The moment you hear the name ABBA, or see it in print, a jangly bit of one of the band’s hit songs begins playing in your head. Maybe you hear the chugging intro to “Waterloo.” Or the a ...

Eurovision victory turned ABBA into a pop juggernaut, the most successful band to win the pan-continental music contest, but ...

Who needs a song of the summer when we’ll always have Abba? Over 50 years after the Swedish pop group conquered Eurovision in 1974 with the white-flag-waving “Waterloo,” we couldn’t escape if we ...

This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. ABBA’s Voyage concert series opened in May of 2022 in Stratford, London, featuring a rundown of both classics and new songs as performed by ...