Abba: The Definitive Collection [DVD]

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Rogers, Jude (5 November 2021). "Abba: Voyage review – no thank you for the music". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 November 2021.

The shows were scheduled to take place from 27th May to 2nd October 2022, but due to the incredible response from fans, they will now run until 2026. 'ABBA Voyage' one-year anniversary album- és válogatáslemez-lista - eladási darabszám alapján - 2022" (in Hungarian). Mahasz . Retrieved 4 February 2023. Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (ABBA; 'Voyage ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 10 December 2021.a b c Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (2 September 2021). "Abba reunite for Voyage, first new album in 40 years". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 August 2021. Details of Voyage were announced early September, along with ABBA Voyage, the revolutionary new concert with Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid performing digitally with a live 10-piece band, in a purpose-built ‘ABBA arena’ at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Brandle, Lars (22 October 2021). "ABBA Unleashes 'Ridiculously Happy' Song 'Just A Notion': Stream It Now". Billboard . Retrieved 5 November 2021. ALBUM-JAHRESCHARTS: ABBA VOR HELENE FISCHER". Offizielle Deutsche Charts. 10 December 2021 . Retrieved 10 December 2021. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. ABBA first announced they were preparing digital avatars in September 2017. Dubbed the "ABBAtars", they will appear during the ABBA Voyage concerts in place of the four actual band members. To animate the avatars, the ABBA band members wore motion-capture suits and were filmed using 160 cameras, with graphics later added by Industrial Light & Magic, [10] [27] a visual effects company. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, with 204,000 chart sales, 90% (180,000) of which were physical sales. It was the biggest opening week for an album in the UK since Ed Sheeran's ÷ (2017), and became the fastest-selling album of 2021 as well as the fastest-selling vinyl LP of the 21st century, with 29,900 vinyl copies sold. It is ABBA's first number-one album since ABBA Gold, which topped the chart in 1992, 1999 and 2008. [49] It became the 3rd biggest album of 2021 in the UK with 400,000 units and the 2nd best-selling album with 387,000 pure sales. [50]I hope the audience wants us to stay for a bit, because we feel like we’ve made something really special. As for what to expect from the visual element of the show, she said: “What a great trip. Be ready to have the most amazing visual and sound trip of your life. It’s an experience.” Ed Potton from The Times magazine rated it with four stars out of five and stated that " Voyage is a reassuringly familiar blend of clear-eyed sentiment, outrageous musicality and utter indifference to fashion". [43] He praised Frida (about whom he claimed to have noticed a stronger Swedish accent than usual, although he doesn't consider this a bad thing) and Agnetha's vocals, calling them "pristine and moving", and wrote that even though the "songs can sound naff on first listen yet you’re pulled in by Benny Andersson’s melodic oomph and Bjorn Ulvaeus eccentric lyrical insights". [43] ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2022 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 13 March 2022.

For the concert experience, a specially built arena called ABBA Arena was created in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

ABBA reunite in London to film for 2022 hologram tour". Dothan Eagle. 22 September 2020. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020 . Retrieved 3 September 2021.