ABBA - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of ABBA
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Artist: ABBAEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Waterloo
- SOS
- I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
- Mamma Mia
- Fernando
- Dancing Queen
- Knowing Me, Knowing You
- The Name Of The Game
- Take A Chance On Me
- Chiquitita
- The Winner Takes It All
Free Music Notes for 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of ABBA
Free Music Review: One Of The Better In The Series From Universal
Hit: 3 Stars
Owning some 70 to 75% of the Pop hits to have come out in recording history, the so-called Big Four of music distributors (Universal, Sony/BMG, Warner and EMI) held the attitude, with the advent of the CD Age a couple of decades back, that all they had to do was toss out 10- to 12-track CDs, often with the same tracks over and over and, with the right promotion, the public would rush out to buy them, even at the inflated prices (for what you got) being asked.
Such was the case with the 20th Century Masters Millenium Collection that seemed to be everywhere in 2000. Often sub-titled "The Best Of" whichever artist was being presented, they would give you 11 or 12 tracks (there never seemed to be any consistency in that regard) which, more often than not, included cuts that were nowhere near as big hits as some left out of the volume. Accompanying each disc was an insert containing a couple of pages of liner notes (in this case written by Joseph F. Laredo), but never a proper discography of the contents.
Every now and then, however, you'd come across one that did indeed give you the best of the artist concerned, especially if there were just around a dozen hits to begin with. As is the case with Abba, the Swedish group that burst onto the North American scene in 1974 with Waterloo (billed to "Abba [Bjorn, Benny, Anna & Frida]" by the Atlantic label), a # 6 on the Billboard Pop Hot 100 that summer. By the time of their last hit here in 1983 (One Of Us), they had chalked up 21 hits in all, and here, with two exceptions, you get the best 11 (six of their hits never made it into the Hot 100 Top 50).
One of the exceptions is Honey, Honey, their second North American hit, which scored at # 27 on both the Adult Contemporary (AC) and Hot 100 in the fall of 1974, while the other is Does Your Mother Know, a # 19 Hot 100/# 41 AC in June 1979. Either one of those as a 12th track (thereby becoming consistent with many of the others in the series containing an even dozen), would have been appreciated.
The # 1 hits here are: Dancing Queen (# 1 Hot 100/# 6 AC in late 1976/early 1977); Fernando (# 1 AC/# 13 Hot 100 in the fall of 1976); and The Winner Takes It All (# 1 AC/# 8 Hot 100 in late 1980). As for the remainder, Take A Chance on Me finished at # 3 Hot 100/# 9 AC in May/June 1978, Knowing Me, Knowing You at # 7 AC/# 14 Hot 100 in June 1977, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do ended up at # 8 AC/# 15 Hot 100 in spring 1976, SOS peaked at # 15 Hot 100/# 19 AC in late 1975, Mamma Mia topped out at # 12 AC/# 32 Hot 100 in summer 1976, and Chiquitita scored at # 15 AC/# 29 Hot 100 in late 1979/early 1980.
An oddity is that SOS is the only charted hit where both the song title and the artist are palindromes (even taking into account the reverse "B" which, by the way, only appeared with the release of their 8th hit here, Knowing Me, Knowing You, and remained thereafter).
Like just about all in the series, they have long since been eclipsed by volumes produced in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe which not only contain upwards of 30 tracks, but also copious liner notes and complete contents discographies and even sessionographies in many cases. And for not all that much more than you were expected to pay for these when they first emerged.
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of ABBA Poster
The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam?, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam?.International Music CDs
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