GOLD - GREATEST HITS
by ABBA
ABBA’s Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation by the Swedish pop group ABBA (formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad), which was released on September 21 1992.
The LP contains 19 songs spanning from their 1974 UK Official Singles Chart debut Waterloo through to 1981’s One Of Us, and features nine UK Number 1s as well as the non-single Thank You For The Music. Although ABBA had been hugely popular as an operational group until their hiatus in 1982, Gold: Greatest Hits was issued in response to an upswing in interest in the group in the early nineties. It was the first album to clock up 1000 weeks in the UK’s Official Albums Chart, in 2021.

Official Albums Chart
Chart facts
- Peak position1
- LabelPOLYDOR
- Catalogue number5170072
- First Chart Date
Weeks on chart
- 8No. 1
- 78Top. 10
- 221Top. 20
- 482Top. 40
- 839Top. 75
- 1117Top. 100
Chart run
36 weeks - 29/05/1993 to 29/01/1994
1 week - 06/08/1994
1 week - 01/04/1995
43 weeks - 06/05/1995 to 24/02/1996
37 weeks - 27/04/1996 to 04/01/1997
42 weeks - 19/04/1997 to 31/01/1998
1 week - 21/02/1998
42 weeks - 21/03/1998 to 02/01/1999
125 weeks - 16/01/1999 to 02/06/2001
1 week - 10/09/2005
79 weeks - 10/05/2008 to 07/11/2009
1 week - 22/05/2010
1 week - 05/05/2012
1 week - 02/06/2012
1 week - 14/07/2012
1 week - 29/12/2012
1 week - 22/06/2013
1 week - 24/05/2014
33 weeks - 10/11/2016 to 22/06/2017
303 weeks - 13/07/2017 to 27/04/2023
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Official Scottish Albums Chart
Chart facts
- Peak position1
- LabelPOLYDOR
- Catalogue number5170072
- First Chart Date
Weeks on chart
- 1No. 1
- 39Top. 10
- 110Top. 20
- 315Top. 40
- 668Top. 75
- 903Top. 100
Chart run
1 week - 05/03/1994
1 week - 28/05/1994
1 week - 23/07/1994
1 week - 06/08/1994
1 week - 21/10/1995
1 week - 27/01/1996
1 week - 13/04/1996
1 week - 15/06/1996
1 week - 25/01/1997
1 week - 19/04/1997
1 week - 03/05/1997
1 week - 31/05/1997