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Super Trouper
Album cover
Album by ABBA
Released November 3, 1980
Recorded Polar Studios
February-October 1980
Genre Pop
Length 41 min 57 sec
Record label PolyGram
Producers Benny Andersson,
Björn Ulvaeus
Professional reviews
Q 3/5 September 2001, p.126
Rolling Stone 2/5 link
AMG 4/5 link
ABBA Chronology
Voulez-Vous
(1979) 		Super Trouper
(1980) 		The Visitors
(1981)

Super Trouper was a top-selling 1980 (see 1980 in music) album by Europop stars ABBA. Led by the international hit "Winner Takes It All", Super Trouper was their sixth British chart-topping album.

Track listing

all songs by Andersson and Ulvaeus

  1. "Super Trouper - 4:11
  2. "The Winner Takes It All - 4:55
  3. "On and on and On - 3:40
  4. "Andante, Andante - 4:39
  5. "Me and I - 4:54
  6. "Happy New Year - 4:23
  7. "Our Last Summer - 4:19
  8. "The Piper - 3:26
  9. "Lay All Your Love on Me - 4:33
  10. "The Way Old Friends Do - 2:57

Personnel

ABBA

Additional personnel

  • Ola Brunkert - drums
  • Lars Carlsson - horn
  • Anders Glenmark - guitar
  • Rutger Gunnarsson - bass, guitar
  • Janne Kling - flute, saxophone
  • Per Lindvall - drums
  • Janne Schaffer - guitar
  • Ake Sundqvist - percussion
  • Mike Watson - bass
  • Lasse Wellander - guitar
  • Kajtek Wojciechowski - saxophone

Production

  • Producers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
  • Engineer: Michael B. Tretow
  • Arranger: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Rutger Gunnarsson
  • Design: Rune Soderqvist

Trivia

The title track, after its success as a single in the UK was parodied in a sketch on the BBC comedy programme, Not the Nine O'Clock News in 1981. The sketch comprised a very close musical parody of the song, called Super Duper, with rather scathing words about Abba:

One of us is ugly, one of us is cute
One of us you'd like to see in her birthday suit
Two of us write music, two have way a song
Sorry, in translation, that line come out wrong

Anni-Frid, Benny, Bjorn, and Agnetha were played (in order) by Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Rowan Atkinson and Pamela Stephenson. The sketch was a very close parody of the video for Super Trouper.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1980 The Billboard 200 17

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1980 "The Winner Takes It All" The Billboard Hot 100 8
1980 "The Winner Takes It All" Adult Contemporary 1
1980 "Lay All Your Love On Me/Super Trouper/On And On And On" Club Play Singles 1
1981 "Super Trouper" The Billboard Hot 100 45
1981 "Super Trouper" Adult Contemporary 14
1981 "On And On And On" The Billboard Hot 100 90
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