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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2018 4:44:18 GMT
ABBA are releasing a 7 inch White Coloured Vinyl edition of 'Happy New Year' on Friday 7th December. The 'B' Side is to be the Spanish language version of the Song - 'Felicidad'. Only 3,000 copies are to be pressed - Worldwide.
Also, from now on the Single will be released as a limited Edition every December, on different coloured Vinyl each Year. Link:
www.udiscovermusic.com/news/abba-say-happy-new-year-limited-edition-vinyl-single/ |
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Post by foreverfan on Nov 15, 2018 13:32:36 GMT
Another collectors item.emmmm I guess the first batch will be the most sort after.. wonder how much they will be.....
It's a shame and probably impossible now for it to have not been a hit in the UK, it could've ended up a perennial favourite......
Liked mentioned a million times with the removal of 1989, it would have been timeless...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2018 17:56:30 GMT
Graham -- All that ABBA have to do is to record a brand New Christmas Song and they will re-enter the
World's Singles Charts every December - easily. Because 'Old' Acts even get loads of Streaming, when
it comes to Christmas Songs. Which is why Mariah Carey, Wham!, Boney M, Wizzard etc. re-enter the
UK Singles Chart every Christmas. ABBA never do. They did no Christmas Songs. 'Happy New Year'
is never a December or January Hit in any English speaking Country. It is only about 1 Day and it does
not hold enough 'Seasonal' interest to be a Hit. (Oddly, it can still be a Hit in various non-English
speaking Countries, such as Sweden, Germany, Norway and The Netherlands).
I've read that all 3,000 World copies of the White Vinyl 'Happy New Year'/'Felicidad', are already
'Sold Out'. With copies already being 'Pre-Sold' on Ebay for as much as £90...
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Post by foreverfan on Nov 18, 2018 18:04:48 GMT
It was always a bit of a mystery why they never got close to a Christmas themed track let alone single, it's not even mentioned in a lyric...strange coming from a European country with quite a strong Christmas ethic, it would probably be a question I'd ask if I could've, ..
Still it's not out of the realms of possibilities with the potential of what's going on....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 19:32:18 GMT
'Happy New Year'/'Felicidad' has entered the UK Vinyl Singles Chart at No.2.
It was released on Friday 7th December.
Only 3,000 were 'Pressed' Worldwide, but a Single only needs to sell a few hundred,
to get into the UK Vinyl Singles Chart.
It is the 1st time that 'Happy New Year' has entered any UK Chart...
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Post by foreverfan on Dec 20, 2018 15:41:19 GMT
It's a great result in one way. However with only 3000 copies worldwide , how many did the UK have, not many, so it's bound to plummet next week. As nice as it all is , does it really have any relevance to anything ? A maximum of a couple of 100 being sold... if only they had made a Christmas double A side with this being one of them, they would've had Christmas covered for 38 years by now !! Returning to the charts year in year out...  |
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Post by josef on Dec 21, 2018 2:27:59 GMT
if only they had made a Christmas double A side with this being one of them, they would've had Christmas covered for 38 years by now !! Returning to the charts year in year out... Perish the thought. I can't think of anything worse. It would probably be as hated as Mistletoe and Wine and There's No One Quite Like Grandma. Or even the dreadful Slade song, Merry Christmas Everybody. |
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Post by foreverfan on Dec 21, 2018 7:47:14 GMT
^^^^lol..  in a funny sort of way totally agree, they do get on your nerves, I could strangle Mariah... especially when you hear them constantly from November... but hey it's ABBA... or could be..not.. |
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Post by gary on Dec 21, 2018 11:29:37 GMT
I was always quite pleased that ABBA never lowered themselves to making a Christmas single. Mind you, I Have A Dream and Super Trouper always sounded quite Christmassy to me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2018 15:38:04 GMT
Gary -- Plus some other Fans here -- I'm pretty sure that if ABBA did a Christmas Song, it would be one of the
very best that's ever been recorded.
Yes, some Christmas Hits are not respected. But many are given a lot of respect. Such as those by The Pogues,
Slade, Wizzard, Mariah Carey, Wham!, John Lennon, Brenda Lee, Darlene Love, The Ronettes and Band Aid etc.
The truth is, that the way 'Streaming' cripples, (holds back), so many 'Old' Acts, these days, a Christmas Song may
well be the only way that ABBA can have a big Hit Single, in this 'Era'. Because, at Christmas a great many people
Stream Christmas Songs and give them Millions of plays. People don't care how 'Old' the Act is - they just want to
play Christmas Songs.
Surely, some ABBA Fans are not saying that they'd rather ABBA never had a Hit Single again, as long as they never
record a Christmas Song? Even Queen recorded a Christmas Song. For some reason, their 'Thank God It's Christmas'
never re-Charts in the UK, at Christmastime. Even this Year it has not re-entered the Top 100, and Queen are huge
at the moment, due to their 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Film. Their Christmas Song is rather bland, and unexciting, and I
believe that is why the UK ignores it at Christmas. I'm sure that ABBA could come up with a far more spectacular
Christmas Song.
Here are the Christmas Songs in the latest UK Top 100 -- W/E 27th December -- All 38 0f them!!!
(W/E 20th December Positions In Brackets)
Most of them re-Chart every November and December. Would it not be great to see ABBA do so too?
ABBA have not been in the UK's Top 100 Singles Chart since W/E 30th August 2008 -- 'Mamma Mia'.
They'd re-enter every Christmas, if they recorded a Christmas Song. (Boney M do).
04. (05) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU (Mariah Carey)
07. (07) LAST CHRISTMAS (Wham!)
11. (10) FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK (The Pogues Feat. Kirsty Maccoll)
13. (15) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS? (Band Aid)
16. (16) IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS (Michael Buble)
18. (22) STEP INTO CHRISTMAS (Elton John)
19. (28) ONE MORE SLEEP (Leona Lewis)
20. (21) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE (Shakin’ Stevens)
21. (26) ROCKIN’ AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE (Brenda Lee)
22. (36) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (Chris Rea)
23. (30) SANTA TELL ME (Ariana Grande)
24. (33) I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY (Wizzard)
29. (42) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John Lennon & Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band)
35. (48) WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME (Paul McCartney)
36. (58) MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY (Slade)
46. (53) MISTLETOE (Justin Bieber)
47. (66) SANTA’S COMING FOR US (Sia)
52. (62) IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR (Andy Williams)
54. (68) CHRISTMAS LIGHTS (Coldplay)
55. (69) UNDERNEATH THE TREE (Kelly Clarkson)
56. (85) COZY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (Katy Perry)
60. (75) MARY’S BOY CHILD - OH MY LORD (Boney M)
61. (73) WHITE CHRISTMAS (Bing Crosby)
62. (70) HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS (Michael Buble)
63. (80) CHRISTMAS (BABY PLEASE COME HOME) (Darlene Love)
65. (76) JINGLE BELL ROCK (Bobby Helms)
71. (89) SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN (Michael Jackson & The Jackson Five)
73. (93) STAY ANOTHER DAY (East 17)
77. (82) BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE (Idina Menzel Feat. Michael Buble)
78. (97) CHRISTMAS TIME (DON’T LET THE BELLS END) (The Darkness)
79. (92) LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS (Mud)
84. (RE) SANTA BABY (Kylie Minogue)
85. (87) LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW (Dean Martin)
87. (95) 2000 MILES (The Pretenders)
90. (RE) YOU MAKE IT FEEL LIKE CHRISTMAS (Gwen Stefani Feat. Blake Shelton)
92. (RE) SLEIGH RIDE (The Ronettes)
93. (RE) CHRISTMAS WRAPPING (The Waitresses)
98. (RE) MISTLETOE AND WINE (Cliff Richard)
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Post by foreverfan on Dec 27, 2018 18:50:37 GMT
And probably all 38 will be out of the charts next Friday, or at least the vast majority,
but that's the nature of the charts, ABBA could possibly hang on another week if there had been that double A side of HNY plus that elusive Christmas track...
we will now have to wait wait until Christmas 2019....lol...
Meanwhile HNY , drops from 2 to 33 in the UK singles vinyl charts...
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Post by gary on Dec 27, 2018 23:05:55 GMT
I take your point, Colin. And there are a few songs in that list that I quite like (Pogues, Elton John, Wizzard, John Lennon, Slade, Pretenders). And I probably would like an ABBA Christmas song simply because it was ABBA.
But there's something so tacky and money-grabbing about the whole genre. And also about (a bugbear of mine) songs being used in adverts. Queen are the worst example of these bar none. Thank God It's Christmas is dire (even by Queen's low standards), and as for the use of Queen's songs to sell kitchen floor cleaner and god knows what else - don't get me started.
I just like the fact that my favourite pop act never did a Christmas song, and nor do their songs appear in adverts. That’s class.
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Post by josef on Dec 28, 2018 20:30:00 GMT
If ABBA were to release a 'Christmas single', it would be so cynical and awful. Jumping on a bandwagon, etc. There's no need for ABBA to do any such thing. They've already had their success (and they're still having it, in many ways). Their legendary status is fixed, they don't need to tarnish it with a Christmas single or any more horrendous Mamma Mia!
As for chart placings....meh. A number one would be great but it's not the be and end all.
My hope is for the new music to make the light of day SOON so I can enjoy it. The avatar thing remains to be seen.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 8:29:17 GMT
As usual 'Happy New Year' has done well, (on iTunes), in the latter few days of last Year and the 1st day or so of this Year.
Over the past few days it reached as high as No.19 on Worldwide iTunes and No.10 on European iTunes.
Also - as usual - it did next to nothing in the English speaking Countries. It reached No.80 on UK iTunes,
about No.86 on Ireland's iTunes, and failed to do anything on the iTunes of the USA, Canada, Australia
and New Zealand. (It reached No.21 on South Africa's iTunes, but English is the 2nd language there).
I've never worked out why 'Happy New Year' struggles to make a New Year impact in the iTunes of the
English speaking Countries. Some say that English speaking people dislike the 1989 in the lyrics!
Unfortunately, 'Happy New Year' is about just 1 day really, which is why it fails to hang around iTunes
as long as the Christmas Songs, each late December and early January...
At its 1st January 2019 iTunes Peak 'Happy New Year' was at No.1 in 9 Countries and Top 10 in 10 more.
It was Top 5 in 9 of those other 10 Countries.
It has done very well indeed in The Netherlands, where it managed to have 2 places in their iTunes Top 5.
In January 2011, it became ABBA's 24th Top 10 Hit there, in the National Weekly Chart - No.8. That was
via Downloads.
'Happy New Year' -- On Global iTunes -- Tuesday 1st January 2019
#1 Finland
#1 Kazakhstan
#1 Lebanon
#1 Moldova
#1 Mongolia
#1 Norway
#1 Russia
#1 Sweden -- (Also No.36)
#1 Ukraine
#2 Czech Republic -- (Also No.29)
#2 Israel
#2 The Netherlands -- (Also No.4)
#2 Vietnam
#3 Hungary
#3 Slovakia
#3 Switzerland
#4 Denmark -- (Also No.76)
#5 Latvia
#6 Uzbekistan
#13 Germany
#14 Austria
#15 Armenia
#15 Luxembourg
#15 Romania
#17 Namibia
#17 United Arab Emirates
#20 Indonesia
#21 Azerbaijan
#21 South Africa
#24 Belarus
#25 Poland
#31 Kyrgyzstan
#36 Belgium -- (Also No.90)
#39 Thailand
#49 India
#50 Singapore
#71 Hong Kong
#87 United Kingdom
#90 Ireland
#98 Turkey
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Post by Zeebee on Jan 2, 2019 21:35:46 GMT
^^I see it's nowhere here in the USA  , but I shared it on Facebook each of the last two years. I don't mind 1989 being in the lyrics. |
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Post by Zeebee on Jan 2, 2019 22:43:10 GMT
Someone posted this on Facebook. I don't know who it is singing it.
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, but I shared it on Facebook each of the last two years. I don't mind 1989 being in the lyrics.