ABBA: Last News

ABBA have at long last announced their return, confirming details of a new album and “revolutionary” concert experience ‘ABBA: VOYAGE’ – as well as releasing two brand new songs.Back in 2017, it was announced that the band would reunite in digital form in 2019, performing as “Abbatars” for the first time since they split in 1983.

Portishead have released their cover of ABBA‘s ‘SOS’ on streaming for the first time – you can listen to it below.The Bristol trip-hop group put a haunting spin on the classic single back in 2016, and have today (July 8) made it available to stream via SoundCloud in aid of mental health charity Mind.Revenue from listens will be generated through the platform’s new fan-powered royalties model, which was announced back in March.

ABBA‘s iconic greatest hits compilation album ‘ABBA Gold’ has made history, becoming the first album to spend 1,000 weeks on the UK charts.From the week beginning on July 2, ‘ABBA Gold’ sits at number 17, almost two decades following its release.

Black Country, New Road covered the ABBA classic ‘Mamma Mia’ at a socially distanced gig last night (June 20) – watch footage below.The band were playing a show at the Future Yard in Birkenhead in support of their debut album ‘For the first time‘.The band’s ABBA cover, which stayed largely true to the original, featured additional sax and violin, and follows the seven-piece’s recent cover of MGMT’s ‘Time To Pretend’.Watch Black Country, New Road cover ‘Mamma Mia’ below.The band are currently on a socially distanced UK tour which began last week (June 15) in Bath.

ABBA biopics in the near future.Despite the success of biopics like Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Elton John’s Rocketman, Ulvaeus has vetoed the chances of an ABBA biopic appearing any time soon.Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Ulvaeus said: “I don’t think we would want that actually, I certainly know myself I wouldn’t want an actor – not while I’m alive – to play me on the big screen and I don’t think the others would like that either.”You can watch the interview below:Earlier this week (April 18), Ulvaeus gave an update on the band’s forthcoming avatar tour, promising that it “still sounds very much ABBA.”Back in 2017, it was announced that the band would reunite in digital form in 2019, performing as “Abbatars” for the first time since they

ABBA‘s Björn Ulvaeus has teased the band’s forthcoming avatar tour, promising that it “still sounds very much ABBA.”Back in 2017, it was announced that the band would reunite in digital form in 2019, performing as “Abbatars” for the first time since they split in 1982.When the reunion tour was then delayed, the Swedish pop icons announced back in 2018 that they would be sharing two new tracks: ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ and ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’, which was then expanded to five new tracks as a reward to fans waiting for the reunion tour due to COVID-related delays.In a new interview with The Times, Ulvaeus discussed how Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad’s vocals were now in a lower pitch – “about one tone lower, perhaps” – but

Mamma Mia!” The popular ABBA movie made $600 million at the global box office, but the former 007 was still roundly mocked for his renditions of “S.O.S.” and “I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do.”The crooner is back in a story with songs in “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” a comedy starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams as an Icelandic pop duo who makes it into the famous music competition, Eurovision. Only this time, he doesn’t so much as hum.“I thought [I was cast] for my singing,” Brosnan tells The Post.