1- “ABBA” is an acronym formed from the first letters of each group member’s first name: Agnetha, Björn, Benny, and Anni-Frid.
2- Led Zeppelin recorded their final interview at ABBA’s Polar Music Studios
3- Before they were ABBA the band was known as Festfolk, meaning party people in Swedish
4- When ABBA was active, only the Volvo car company made more money in Sweden
5- ABBA were honoured at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005
6- ABBA the Movie premiered on February 16th 1978 at London’s Warner West End Cinema
7- Russia Paid Them With Oil To Perform
8- “In the late 70s, ABBA made a weird deal that meant that Russia would pay their royalties with oil commodities. The currency was under an embargo so they needed some way to get paid. They were apparently the second highest export in the country, second only to Volvo vehicles.”
9- They made their first American TV appearance on ‘The Mike Douglas Show.’
10- In 2015, their song “Dancing Queen” was inducted into the Recording Academy’s Grammy Hall of Fame
11- Abba is also the name of a seafood company in Sweden
12- They were almost called BABA (Baba means father in Turkish Language)
13- On 15 March 2010, ABBA were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bee Gees members Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb
14- Dancing Queen and Fernando spent a total of Sixteen weeks in the charts in 1976,more than 150,000 copies were sold in Sweden alone
15- Agnetha was a telephonist for a car firm while performing with a local dance band, led by Bernt Enghardt.
16- Abba spelt backwards is abba
17- Nine ABBA albums made their way into the top half of the Billboard 200 album chart, with seven of them reaching the Top 50 and four reaching the Top 20
18- ABBA have sold over 300 million albums and singles worldwide.
19- When the band formed, Benny and Anni-Frid were a couple, as were Björn and Agnetha.
20- They met Alice Cooper in Australia and were fast friends
21- Abba first shot to worldwide fame when they won the Eurovision Song Contest in April, 1974 with Waterloo
22- Agnetha met Björn Ulvaeus, a member of the Hootenanny Singers, in 1968
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