Björn Ulvaeus: Last News

After a 39-year hiatus from their musical career, ABBA is back and will be releasing brand new music next Friday.

ABBA.It will be the first time the Swedish group have released new music in 40 years. The last album the group released was ‘The Visitors’ in 1981.Speaking to The Herald Sun, Ulvaeus said: “There will be new music this year, that is definite, it’s not a case anymore of it might happen, it will happen.”He also went on to reveal more about the group’s time back in the studio.He added: “We’re really, really good friends.

We'll be thanking Abba for the music all over again this year, the band’s leader said today.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn connection with an authoritative new report from Midia Research showing how songwriters are being dramatically short-changed by the streaming economy, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus says that “songwriters are last in line for streaming royalties.”In an op-ed that recently appeared in the U.K. paper The Guardian, Ulvaeus — pictured above left, who cowrote nearly every ABBA’s song and all of their hits with Benny Anderson, and is also president of the international author society CISAC — writes: “In 1973, Abba were invited to submit a song as Sweden’s entry to the Eurovision song contest.

ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus has said a fairer payment model needs to be in place for songwriters.Writing in The Guardian, Ulvaeus said a new royalties model is needed if the industry is to see any kind of “risk-taking” or “creativity” from artists whose writing, he says, is being affected by the pressures of the “dysfunctional” current model.Ulvaeus said: “The dominant currency in streaming is individual songs; data shows that when people use a streaming platform such as Spotify, they search more for songs than they do for artists.

MUNICH — German concert promoter CTS Eventim and ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus are joining forces for the dinner theater franchise Mamma Mia! The Party. CTS Eventim has now acquired 49 percent of the production from the previous minority shareholders, while Ulvaeus remains the majority shareholder with 51%. The show combines dining and the classic songs of ABBA with in

The Guardian in a new interview and commenting on how his age is affecting him in the, ahem, bedroom. Bjorn revealed that as he’s got older, he ‘can’t manage’ to do the deed any more than four times a week now.

IT’S time to say Thank You For The Music again – as Abba plan to release new songs more than 38 years since they were last in the studio together. But it could all have been very different, because nerves nearly ended the band’s first major tour before it even began.

Björn Ulvaeus, a co-founder of ABBA who wrote the group’s hits with his bandmate Benny Andersson, was today (May 29) named the president of CISAC, the global confederation of authors societies. Known for his business-savvy, as well as his interest in technology, Ulvaeus steps into the role at a time when Internet companies and collecting societies are learning to live with one another but still have very different views on how streaming services should work and what they should pay creators.“I tend to think that creators get too little, of course, because I’m a songwriter, and I think that in the long run we have to take a closer look at how things are divided,” Ulvaeus told Billboard over Zoom before his appointment became official.

Björn Ulvaeus, a co-founder of ABBA who wrote the group’s hits with his bandmate Benny Andersson, was today (May 29) named the president of CISAC, the global confederation of authors societies. Known for his business-savvy, as well as his interest in technology, Ulvaeus steps into the role at a time when Internet companies and collecting societies are learning to live with one another but still have very different views on how streaming services should work and what they should pay creators.“I tend to think that creators get too little, of course, because I’m a songwriter, and I think that in the long run we have to take a closer look at how things are divided,” Ulvaeus told Billboard over Zoom before his appointment became official.

By Jem Aswad

The 2020 Eurovision Song Contest was, well, not much of a contest. Blame the coronavirus pandemic for that.For the first time in its history, the annual songwriting competition was shelved.