ABBA Voyage Chart tracker RECORD BREAKING NO.1 ALBUM

[Hak]

Voyage is already ABBA's highest charting studio album globally by some margin.

Title	Album details​	SWE	AUS	AUT	CAN	FRA	GER	NLD	NOR	NZ	UK	US
Ring Ring	Released: 26 March 1973	2	10	—	—	—	—	—	10	32	—	—
Waterloo	Released: 4 March 1974	1	18	—	—	—	6	74	1	38	28	145
ABBA	Released: 21 April 1975	1	1	—	55	—	—	3	1	3	13	174
Arrival	Released: 11 October 1976	1	1	12	4	15	1	1	1	1	1	20
ABBA: The Album	Released: 12 December 1977	1	4	2	8	13	2	1	1	1	1	14
Voulez-Vous	Released: 23 April 1979	1	5	2	6	6	1	1	1	2	1	19
Super Trouper	Released: 3 November 1980	1	5	3	10	8	1	1	1	5	1	17
The Visitors	Released: 30 November 1981	1	22	3	18	12	1	1	1	19	1	29
Voyage	Released: 5 November 2021	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1​	2​

 

[octophone]

I wish Ed Sheeran would leave it 40 years until his next album...

 

[octophone]

I wonder how easy is for sales like that to be tracked? As surely if they’ve stopped selling CDs they no longer report.

Though admittedly in the computer age it might be an easy Head Office group submission, I suppose.

Given that the barcode still needs to be read at the tills, it's probably as easy as extracting the sales of any other item.

If the sales weren't going towards the chart, I'd imagine the labels wouldn't give them stock.

 

[GinAg (39)]

Down to 2 with 44k sales. I presume this will easily feature in the end of year top 10.

 

[GinAg (39)]

I don't think I even acknowledged this.

The ABBA revival in America really has been more subtle than say the UK, but it did happen despite the obvious resistance.

 

[Jark]

Down to 2 with 44k sales. I presume this will easily
feature in the end of year top 10.

it must be looking at year end top 3 considering it's guaranteed to sell over Christmas!

 

[Iguana]

How much did it sell in the US in the first week to get to number 2?

 

[RJN]

How much did it sell in the US in the first week to get to number 2?

82,000 (78,000 of them pure sales)

 

[Iguana]

82,000 (78,000 of them pure sales)

That sounds kind of low compared to the UK which is half the size of Texas!

 

[RJN]

That sounds kind of low compared to the UK which is half the size of Texas!

 

[RJN]

But also I think they're just less popular here

 

[Iguana]

But also I think they're just less popular here

But they still got to number 2 - I meant more that US sales must be pretty low generally!

 

[Eddie]

But also I think they're just less popular here

You don't say.

 

[lolly]

I'd be interested to see a popularity per capita chart. Might have to suggest it elsewhere and let someone else pick up the work.

 

[RJN]

But they still got to number 2 - I meant more that US sales must be pretty low generally!

They definitely are but I don't know how it compares to the UK (or other countries). I wonder how much the difference is opening weeks for Adele is between them

 

[RJN]

I'd be interested to see a popularity per capita chart. Might have to suggest it elsewhere and let someone else pick up the work.

UK: 180,000/67.2 million = .00267857
US: 78,000/329.5 million = .00023672


11.315 times more popular

 

[lolly]

UK: 180,000/67.2 million = .00267857
US: 78,000/329.5 million = .00023672


11.315 times more popular

 

[RJN]

I did feel a bit insane while posting it but I was already deep into doing it

 

[lolly]

I did feel a bit insane while posting it but I was already deep into doing it

Don't worry, I'll be doing it for Belarus, Belize and Brunei by midnight.

 

[Jark]

assuming at the low end of the scale Voyage sells 27k next week, it will be 3 on the year-end chart at the close of November with around 275k. I can see it easily clearing 450k by end of Dec with some bonanza Christmas sales in the mix, which would hopefully put it above Sour at #2 for the year.

UK’s best selling albums of 2021 up to yesterday:

1 359,250 Olivia Rodrigo Sour
2 248,000 Abba Voyage
3 221,000 Ed Sheeran =
4 212,750 Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia
5 197,500 Queen Greatest Hits
6 180,750 Ed Sheeran ÷
7 177,750 Dave We're All Alone In This Together
8 172,750 Fleetwood Mac 50 Years: Don't Stop
9 171,250 Elton John Diamonds
10 167,750 Weeknd Highlights

 

[BoysForSeles]

I really had no idea Olivia Rodrigo was that popular #old

 

[Jark]

I really had no idea Olivia Rodrigo was that popular #old

she has 2 of the 5 biggest hits of the year and a majority of those album "sales" are just streaming points from those!

 

[BoysForSeles]

she has 2 of the 5 biggest hits of the year and a majority of those album "sales" are just streaming points from those!

Ah I see. I just know 2 songs by her, it makes more sense now.

 

[Jark]

#5 with 13K in the mids, just below Sheeran, probably looking at 25-27k by Friday.

 

[lolly]

Boo

I imagine it will end up at #4

 

[GinAg (39)]

It actually ended up at no.3

 

[Pingu]

Great news, although I worry that Sheeran might overtake them in the year-end.

@ManicKangaroo how likely is that?

 

[lolly]

I see Adele sold less on physical than Abba. So I'm holding on to that record for them.

 

[ManicKangaroo]

Great news, although I worry that Sheeran might overtake them in the year-end.

@ManicKangaroo how likely is that?

Hard to tell at the moment but probably quite likely, they're only around 24k ahead and I suspect Ed's sales will hold up better (certainly streaming,-wise). It's whether ABBA can pull in greater numbers as we get nearer Christmas since they'll benefit more from "gift" sales I expect.

 

[lolly]

I hope they have more promo planned than knitwear.

 

[lolly]

I hope they have more promo planned than knitwear.

Perhaps not

 

[GinAg (39)]

Back up to 3 this week. It's of course proven to be the Christmas hit we expected.

1-2-3-4-3

 

[ButterTart]

How many more weeks in the top 40 does it need in order to match ABBA Gold?

 

[GinAg (39)]

How many more weeks in the top 40 does it need in order to match ABBA Gold?

I don't know top 40, but they have a mere 1018 weeks to go.

 

[ButterTart]

I don't know top 40, but they have a mere 1018 weeks to go.

Almost there!

 

[GinAg (39)]

Almost there!

A mere 19 years and 4 months!

 

[lolly]

8 weeks #1
65 weeks top 10
146 weeks top 20
388 weeks top 40
745 weeks top 75
1023 weeks top 1000

*FLUSH*

 

[Jark]

28k sold this week for 359k to date! they're at 4 on the year to date chart (Ed overtook this week) but should be 3 at year-end when they pass Olivia Rodrigo.

 

[Devil]

Yep should finish the year on 400k and at #3. Great result.

 

[Halli]

As an Abba casual fan 'Don't Shut Me Down' is up there with some of their best for me. It is so so good.