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==Charts== ==Charts==
'''Album''' - UK Album Chart
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!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Chart
!align="left"|Position
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|align="left"|1980
|align="left"|UK Album Chart
|align="left"|1
|-
|}


'''Album''' - Billboard (North America) '''Album''' - Billboard (North America)
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'''Singles''' - UK Singles Chart
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="550px"
!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Single
!align="left"|Chart
!align="left"|Position
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|align="left"|1980
|align="left"|"The Winner Takes It All"
|align="left"|UK Singles Chart
|align="left"|1
|-
|align="left"|1980
|align="left"|"Super Trouper"
|align="left"|UK Singles Chart
|align="left"|1
|-
|align="left"|1981
|align="left"|"Lay All Your Love On Me"
|align="left"|UK Singles Chart
|align="left"|7
|-
|}



'''Singles''' - Billboard (North America) '''Singles''' - Billboard (North America)

Revision as of 22:04, 12 December 2005

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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. Super Trouper was reissued in digitally remastered form twice; once in 1997, and again in 2001.

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
  11. "Elaine" - 3:44
  12. "Put On Your White Sombrero" - 4:34

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.

Super Trouper is a registered trademark owned by Strong Entertainment Lighting, for their brand of followspots, i.e., directional spotlights used to follow a performer on stage. A real life example: http://www.strongint.com/products/Strong_Follow_Spots/STShort/

Charts

Album - UK Album Chart

Year Chart Position
1980 UK Album Chart 1


Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1980 The Billboard 200 17



Singles - UK Singles Chart

Year Single Chart Position
1980 "The Winner Takes It All" UK Singles Chart 1
1980 "Super Trouper" UK Singles Chart 1
1981 "Lay All Your Love On Me" UK Singles Chart 7


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" 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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