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The Singles: The First Ten Years

1982 compilation album by ABBA

The Singles: The First Ten Years
Compilation album by ABBA
Released	8 November 1982
Recorded	January 1973 – August 1982
Genre	Pop
Length	92:48
Label	Polar (Sweden) Epic (UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy) Atlantic (US and Canada) Polydor (Germany and Netherlands) Vogue (France) RCA (Australia and New Zealand) Sunshine (South Africa)
Producer	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus
ABBA chronology
The Visitors (1981) The Singles: The First Ten Years (1982) Thank You for the Music: A Collection of Love Songs (1983)
Singles from The Singles: The First Ten Years
"The Day Before You Came" Released: 18 October 1982 "Under Attack" Released: 3 December 1982

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	10/10[4]

The Singles: The First Ten Years is a double compilation album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in November 1982.^[5][6]

In May 1982, ABBA started recording what could have been their ninth studio but only three songs were recorded: "You Owe Me One", "I Am The City" and "Just Like That". Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus were not happy with the tracks and shelved the project in favour of a greatest hits album. The Singles: The First Ten Years contained most of the band's hit singles from their ten years together as recording artists, and included two new tracks: "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack".^[7] The Singles: The First Ten Years was released on CD in Canada only by Atlantic Records in 1987, but was quickly deleted in 1988 when Atlantic's rights to the catalog expired.^[8] In 2001, the album was replaced by The Definitive Collection. In the Spin Alternative Record Guide (1995), the compilation was ranked 80th on the book's list of the "Top 100 Alternative Albums".^[9]

Richard Cook in the New Musical Express described the collection as a "documentation of the group who altered the course of pop more than anyone else. It resulted in a seam of unbroken, highly individual pop music that in lifespan terms is still unmatched."^[10]

All songs written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, except where noted. It was released as a 2 LP and double cassette. In 1983 a two CD version of the collection appeared on Polydor records, produced in West Germany.^[11]

LP1

1. "Ring Ring" – 3:04
2. "Waterloo" - 2:42
3. "So Long" – 3:05
4. "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" – 3:16
5. "SOS" – 3:22
6. "Mamma Mia" – 3:31
7. "Fernando" – 4:12
8. "Dancing Queen" – 3:50
9. "Money, Money, Money" – 3:06
10. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" – 4:02
11. "The Name of the Game" – 4:53
12. "Take a Chance on Me" – 4:06
13. "Summer Night City" – 3:34

LP2

1. "Chiquitita" – 5:26
2. "Does Your Mother Know" – 3:14
3. "Voulez-Vous" – 5:08
4. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" – 4:49
5. "I Have a Dream" – 4:44
6. "The Winner Takes It All" – 4:55
7. "Super Trouper" – 4:13
8. "One of Us" – 3:55
9. "The Day Before You Came" – 5:50
10. "Under Attack" – 3:47

ABBA

• Agnetha Fältskog – lead vocals (5, 14, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23), co-lead vocals (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16), backing vocals
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad – lead vocals (7, 9, 10, 18, 20), co-lead vocals (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16), backing vocals
• Björn Ulvaeus – steel-string, acoustic guitar, lead vocals (13, 15), backing vocals
• Benny Andersson – synthesizer, keyboards, backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Ulf Andersson – saxophone
• Ola Brunkert – drums
• Lars Carlsson – horn
• Christer Eklund – saxophone
• Malando Gassama – percussion
• Anders Glenmark – guitar
• Rutger Gunnarsson – bass
• Roger Palm – drums
• Janne Schaffer – guitar
• Åke Sundqvist – percussion
• Mike Watson – bass
• Lasse Wellander – guitar

Production

• Benny Andersson – producer, arranger
• Björn Ulvaeus – producer, arranger
• Michael Tretow – engineer