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The ten best ABBA songs, ranked: from Dancing Queen to Fernando

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It’s no an exaggeration to call ABBA one of the most iconic pop groups of all time. First bursting onto the Eurovision stage with their stone-cold banger Waterloo fifty years ago on April 6, they went onto win the song contest hands-down, and forged a decade-long career at the top of the charts.

Since originally disbanding in 1982 amid multiple romantic break-ups within the group’s ranks, they’ve since reunited for a new album, 2021’s Voyage, and went digital with ABBA Voyage – which treats audiences to a performance of the band in their prime, rendered 3D with clever technology (the closest you’ll ever get to seeing them live, so get tickets here).

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