ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus Launches 'Björn from ABBA and Friends’ Radio Show on Apple Music Hits

Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer and ABBA founding member Björn Ulvaeus today launches 'Björn from ABBA and Friends’ on the Apple Music Hits global radio station. Björn is the latest artist to join the award-winning Apple Music radio lineup which includes shows hosted by The Weeknd, Elton John, Shania Twain, Mark Hoppus, J Balvin, and many more. This new four-part series features conversations with friends, collaborators, and artists about all things ABBA. 

The inaugural episode of 'Björn from ABBA and Friends’ features special guest Nile Rodgers, who joins Björn to share stories and discuss songwriting secrets, ABBA’s enduring influence, and the keys to their success and undeniable catalog. Additional guests include playwright Catherine Johnson, who penned the book of the stage musical and first film adaptation ‘Mama Mia!’, and creative director for the forthcoming ABBA Voyage concerts, Johan Renck. 

"I’m excited to be bringing the show to Apple Music Hits because I have long wanted to ask some emotionally intelligent as well as intellectual people who know about ABBA about why they think our songs have lasted for such a long time — almost 40 years — because I don’t understand it myself,” said Björn. "Sometimes when I see the number of albums we’ve sold — which they say is around almost 400 million — I can intellectually grasp that, but emotionally I never have been able to because I don’t know why all this happened. I just know that we wrote our songs as best we could, and then recorded them as best as we could, and that was it. What happened afterwards was a phenomenon that I never quite understood. But maybe my guests here on this series will help me to understand it. Maybe they have some input that that I’ve waited for for so long. I’ve talked to several people about this already of course, but no one has come up with a really good answer, so I think that is in essence is what this this series is about. It’s about finally getting some questions that I’ve had for a long time answered".

Listen to Björn from ABBA and Friends every day this week at 12:00p PST on Apple Music Hits or binge the full series anytime on-demand with an Apple Music subscription at apple.co/_ABBARadio. 

Take the ABBA Quiz!

ABBA releases the ABBA Gold- Greatest Hits (Special Edition) CD/DVD today! To celebrate the release of the ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits (Special Edition) CD/DVD, take the ultimate test for ABBA fans: a 30 question quiz that get increasingly difficult!  Prizes will be given to those with the 10 highest scores.  

Mamma mia! ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits (Special Edition)

ABBA has never sounded or looked better than on the new CD+DVD package ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits (Special Edition) (Polydor/Polar/UMe), to be released December 7, 2010. Featuring all of the group’s hits and more--and the videos for each of them--this Special Edition package brings together 1992’s six times platinum ABBA Gold – Greatest Hits CD and its gold-certified homevideo companion of the same title, both newly remastered.

The CD, which as a stand-alone album has sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, embraces 19 classics including the gold #1 anthem “Dancing Queen”; #3 gold “Take A Chance On Me”; Top 10s “Waterloo” and “The Winner Takes It All”; Top 20s “SOS,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Fernando,” “Does Your Mother Know” and “The Name Of The Game,” and Top 40s “Mamma Mia” and “Chiquitita.”

The DVD features all 19 video clips, taking full advantage of the progress in digital technology since they were last remastered. Notably, most of ABBA’s videos were directed by Lasse Hallström, since acclaimed for such films as My Life As A Dog, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Chocolat. Also included are bonus selections in the form of “before-and-after” split-screen comparisons of five original film clips and their remastered versions. In addition, the DVD adds a recently discovered cartoon version of “Money, Money, Money,” circa 1977.

ABBA - The Concert

This summer, come to Red Rocks and have the time of your life with ABBA – The Concert Arrival from Sweden performing the chart-topping hits of ABBA, including 'Dancing Queen', 'Waterloo', 'Fernando', 'S.O.S.', 'Mamma Mia', 'Take a Chance on Me', 'The Winner Takes It All', 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'Ring Ring', 'The Name of the Game', 'Money Money Money', and many more.

This concert benefits KBDI and is sponsored by DenverPost.com, KOSI 101, Out Front Colorado, Marriott West, Presidential Worldwide Transportation, and Brothers BBQ.

Tickets available online at www.kbdi.org/abba_concert.

So Sweet: Party tonight at the Sugar House

Tonight's sweetest party will be at The Sugar House, 1395 W. Alameda. There's no cover charge and you can enjoy an all-you-can-drink premium open bar for only $15. Mention Out Front Colorado when you walk in the door and you will be entered into a drawing to win free "ABBA: The Concert at Red Rocks" tickets with VIP access, courtesy of Out Front Colorado. Party at the Sugar House, 1395 W. Alameda tonight, July 18, with:

I haven't been to The Sugar House yet myself but OFC Sales Manager Lynette Elliott says, "The Sugar House is definitely an upscale bar that offers something for everyone, with a DJ on site, great signature martinis and other drinks, and a really fun, outgoing staff."

All ABBA, all the time

SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) will launch ABBA Radio, an exclusive channel dedicated to international pop supergroup, ABBA. ABBA Radio will debuted yesterday at 6 pm ET on SIRIUS channel 3 in celebration of the upcoming release of MAMMA MIA! The Movie.

Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved stage musical seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. MAMMA MIA! The Movie opens in theaters in the U.S. on July 18, 2008.

ABBA Radio will broadcast ABBA music 24/7 for two weeks and will feature all the hits originally performed by the group. The channel will also feature tracks from the original cast recording of the hit stage musical phenomenon, MAMMA MIA!.


“Thanks to ABBA Radio on SIRIUS, both new and longtime fans have a place to experience the original music of ABBA, together with the new songs produced for the soundtrack to Mamma Mia! The Movie, in a distinctively innovative way. ABBA Radio allows for our early songs to join the new ones in harmony on SIRIUS’ national platform, and engage all generations of listeners," said Benny Andersson.

“A world wide release of a movie and a soundtrack album is a once in a lifetime event and I'm so proud that ABBA Radio on SIRIUS is following it closely,” said Björn Ulvaeus. “ABBA Radio on SIRIUS is unique in that both Benny Andersson and I have made extensive interviews for the channel and we've done that for no-one else.”

“ABBA created one of the most distinctive sounds and styles in music and has found to this day enduring international popularity,” said Scott Greenstein, SIRIUS President of Entertainment and Sports. “We are excited to offer ABBA Radio to SIRIUS listeners, which will include interviews with Benny and Björn as well as the cast of the MAMMA MIA! movie, and of course unprecedented access to ABBA’s music.”

The limited engagement channel will also feature stories and insights from ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus about their many pop classics which have influenced recording artists for over three decades. ABBA Radio will also feature celebrity fans sharing their favorite ABBA music and personal stories, including stars from MAMMA MIA! The Movie Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Christine Baranski, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Catherine Johnson, film director Phyllida Lloyd and producer Gary Goetzman, as well as Dionne Warwick, Alanis Morissette, songwriter Desmond Child, Joan Rivers, Brooke Shields, Andy Bell from Erasure, Randy Jones from the Village People, the cast of the Tony Award®-winning musical Spring Awakening, ambassador Ulf Hjertonsson, Per Gessle of Roxette, Nancy Sinatra and Martha Stewart.

The Swedish pop group ABBA was formed by Agnetha Fāltskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad in 1973. The quartet quickly earned international popularity and has since become one of the world's best selling groups of all time, selling more than a reported 370 million records worldwide. At the core of the distinctive ABBA sound are the soprano and mezzosoprano voices of Agnetha and Frida and timeless melodies written by Benny and Bjorn. Along with The Beatles, ABBA is one of the world’s most successful groups, having topped music charts around the world with hits that include “Waterloo,” “Mamma Mia,” “Super Trouper,” “SOS,” “Money, Money, Money” and “Fernando.”

The MAMMA MIA! musical is a global phenomenon based on the songs of ABBA—the show is one of the longest running productions in Broadway history with productions currently running around the world in Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Istanbul, London and Paris. Timeless favorites such as “Dancing Queen,” “I Have a Dream,” “Voulez-Vous” and “Take a Chance on Me” are ingeniously woven into a tale of love, laughter and friendship.

ABBA Radio continues SIRIUS’ tradition of creating exclusive limited run artist-branded channels dedicated to iconic musicians. SIRIUS has previously offered limited run channels such as E Street Radio, Rolling Stones Radio, The Who Channel, Radio R.E.M., Coldplay Nation, Neil Diamond Radio, Jay-Z Nation, Garth Brooks Radio and Duran Duran’s Red Carpet Radio among many others.