With 204 thousand copies .. “Voyage” by “ABBA” tops record sales in Britain
Sweden's ABBA has topped the UK's top 10 record for sales of its new album, Voyage, the quartet's first studio-recorded group since 1981, the official body that sets the ranking announced on Friday.
"Voyage" has sold 204 thousand copies in 7 days since its release last Friday, which is the strongest launch for an album in Britain in the past four years, since "David" by British star Ed Sheeran.
Since their contract broke up at the end of 1982, a year after they released their last album, "The Physizers," the four members of the band, Anita Waltzkog, 71, Bjorn Olfaus, 76, Benny Anderson, 74, and Anne-Fried Lingstad (75), have not released. No new song.
Voyage "is the band's tenth album, which ranks first in Britain, a number that only two bands have achieved, "The Beatles" and "The Rolling Stones" and 5 singers: Elvis Presley, Robbie Williams, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie.
The band expressed its relief at this achievement in a statement, saying, "We are delighted that our fans loved our new album as much as we loved recording it."
"We are very pleased to have an album again at the top of the rankings," she added.
The physical copies of the album constitute 90% of the total sales of 204 thousand, including 29,900 vinyl records, which is the highest number of sales of this type of record achieved by an album in its first week since the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The previous record in this field was the "Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino" album by British rock band "Arctic Monkeys", which sold 24,500 vinyl copies in its first week in 2018.
