ABBA discography
Swedish pop group ABBA has released nine studio albums, two live albums, thirteen compilation albums, four box sets, five video albums, 53 singles, and 41 music videos. They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music. ABBA have sold an estimated 150 million to 400 million records worldwide. They have scored nine number-one singles and 10 number-one albums in the UK, becoming the most successful Swedish act of all time on the Official Charts, and were ranked third best-selling singles artists in the United Kingdom with a total of 11.3 million singles sold as of November 2012. In May 2023, ABBA were awarded the BRIT Billion Award, which celebrates those who have surpassed the milestone of one billion UK streams in their career.
ABBA's biggest hit singles worldwide are "Dancing Queen" and "Fernando", with Arrival being their biggest hit studio album.
The compilation album ABBA Gold is the second best-selling album of all time in the UK and has sold over 32 million copies worldwide.
Videography
Music videos
“Film clips” showing groups performing their songs had been used to great effect by major artists like The Beatles since the mid-Sixties as a convenience for those who werereluctant or unable to tour or make appearances abroad. In the summer of 1974, when there was a demand for the group's presence in the United States, they hired the director Lasse Hallström to direct the group's first film clips, for "Waterloo" and "Ring Ring". Hallström had been making pop film clips for television since the late Sixties, and had recently directed a sequence of successful short comedy skits for Swedish television. The videos were successful, and the following year the group rehired him to make four promo clips of the songs they felt had the strongest hit potential on the new album. Hallström would go on to make most of their in-house promotional clips, often on a very small budget. The relationship ended in 1982, prompted by changing tastes and demands and complaints from ABBA's distributors that Hallström's low-budget approach made it difficult to market the band. Director Kjell Sundvall and cinematographer Kjell-Åke Andersson, an up-and-coming filmmaker team, were hired to replace them for the final two promotional videos, "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack".
| Year | Title | Director | Album |
| 1974 | "Waterloo" | Lasse Hallström | Waterloo |
| 1974 | "Ring Ring" | Lasse Hallström | Ring Ring |
| 1975 | "Mamma Mia" | Lasse Hallström | ABBA |
| 1975 | "SOS" | Lasse Hallström | ABBA |
| 1975 | "Bang-A-Boomerang" | Lasse Hallström | ABBA |
| 1975 | "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" | Lasse Hallström | ABBA |
| 1976 | "Fernando" | Lasse Hallström | Greatest Hits |
| 1976 | "Dancing Queen" | Lasse Hallström | Arrival |
| 1976 | "When I Kissed the Teacher" | Per Falkman | Arrival |
| 1976 | "Money, Money, Money" | Lasse Hallström | Arrival |
| 1977 | "Knowing Me, Knowing You" | Lasse Hallström | Arrival |
| 1977 | "That's Me" | Lasse Hallström | Arrival |
| 1977 | "The Name of the Game" | Lasse Hallström | The Album |
| 1978 | "Take a Chance on Me" | Lasse Hallström | The Album |
| 1978 | "Eagle" | Lasse Hallström | The Album |
| 1978 | "One Man, One Woman" | Lasse Hallström | The Album |
| 1978 | "Thank You for the Music" | Lasse Hallström | The Album |
| 1978 | "Summer Night City" | Lasse Hallström | Non-album single |
| 1979 | "Chiquitita" | BBC crew | Voulez-Vous |
| 1979 | "Does Your Mother Know" | Lasse Hallström | Voulez-Vous |
| 1979 | "Voulez-Vous" | Lasse Hallström | Voulez-Vous |
| 1979 | "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! " | Lasse Hallström | Greatest Hits Vol. 2 |
| 1979 | "Estoy Soñando" | Lasse Hallström | Oro: Grandes Éxitos |
| 1979 | "I Have a Dream" | Urban Lasson | Voulez-Vous |
| 1980 | "Conociéndome, Conociéndote" | Lasse Hallström | Oro: Grandes Éxitos |
| 1980 | "Gracias por la Música" | Lasse Hallström | Oro: Grandes Éxitos |
| 1980 | "On and On and On" | Anders Hanser | Super Trouper |
| 1980 | "The Winner Takes It All" | Lasse Hallström | Super Trouper |
| 1980 | "Super Trouper" | Lasse Hallström | Super Trouper |
| 1980 | "Happy New Year" | Lasse Hallström | Super Trouper |
| 1980 | "Felicidad" | Lasse Hallström | Oro: Grandes Éxitos |
| 1981 | "Lay All Your Love on Me" | video collage | Super Trouper |
| 1981 | "When All Is Said and Done" | Lasse Hallström | The Visitors |
| 1981 | "One of Us" | Lasse Hallström | The Visitors |
| 1981 | "No Hay a Quien Culpar" | Lasse Hallström | Oro: Grandes Éxitos |
| 1982 | "Head over Heels" | Lasse Hallström | The Visitors |
| 1982 | "The Day Before You Came" | Kjell Sundvall and Kjell-Åke Andersson | The Singles: The First Ten Years |
| 1982 | "Under Attack" | Kjell Sundvall and Kjell-Åke Andersson | The Singles: The First Ten Years |
| 2004 | "The Last Video" | Radical Media UK | Non-album video |
| 2021 | "I Still Have Faith in You" | Shynola | Voyage |
| 2021 | "Little Things" | Sophie Muller | Voyage |