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ABBA’s 1992 collection Gold: Greatest Hits rises a spot to No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Dance Albums chart (dated Jan. 17), becoming the legendary group’s first career No. 1 on the ranking.

The set, which includes many of the quartet’s most enduring hits — among them “Dancing Queen,” “Mamma Mia” and “Take a Chance on Me” — leads with 15,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the Jan. 2-8 tracking week, according to Luminate.

Before this week, ABBA had topped a Billboard dance chart just once. In 1981, “Lay All Your Love on Me”/“Super Trouper”/”On and On and On” spent a week at No. 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart, which Billboard published from 1976 to 2020. The three tracks were combined into a single listing — a common chart practice at the time — because all tracks were receiving club play from DJs.

Beyond the dance charts, Gold: Greatest Hits has also been a mainstay on the all-format Billboard 200. The set has spent 411 weeks on the chart and counting — it sits at No. 80 this week — making it by far the longest-charting album of ABBA’s catalog. The group’s next longest-charted release, Greatest Hits, spent 61 weeks on the chart in 1976-79.

ABBA first reached No. 1 on Billboard chart in October 1976 when “Fernando” topped Adult Contemporary. In April 1977, “Dancing Queen” became the group’s first and only Billboard Hot 100 leader. The band’s next No. 1 arrived in 1981 via “The Winner Takes It All” on Adult Contemporary.

On the albums front, ABBA secured its first No. 1 in 2021 with its comeback, and presumed farewell, project, Voyage. The set debuted atop both the Top Album Sales and Vinyl Albums charts and narrowly missed ruling the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 2.

Notably, the film soundtracks for 2008’s Mamma Mia! and 2018’s Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again are billed as such, and not to ABBA, while the 1999 stage production album of Mamma Mia! is an original Broadway cast recording. The 2008 album spent one week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and 14 weeks atop the Soundtracks chart. The sequel’s soundtrack notched three weeks at No. 1 on Soundtracks and hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200. The original cast recording spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Cast Albums chart.

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