SOS dancing queens, Voyage will be released on November 5 featuring all-new songs
Mamma mia, here they go again! The world’s most beloved Swedish pop group ABBA has announced that they are officially back together with their first studio album in 40 years. And that is not all—the iconic band will also be staging a series of virtual concerts using digital avatars of themselves in London next year.
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The new album, Voyage, will be released on November 5, the band announced during the launch event of the first two songs on the album this week. The songs are already out for the world to listen to on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and more.
The songs, I Still Have Faith In You and Don't Shut Me Down are the first two in a series of 10 songs that will eventually be released as an album. One song, Little Things, will also be a Christmas song.
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“First, it was just two songs,” songwriter Benny Andersson said in a video message that was pre-recorded. “Then we said ‘Maybe we should do, I don’t know, a few others. What do you say girls?’ And they said ‘Yeah’ and then I asked ‘Why don’t we do a full album?’”
Co-songwriter Bjorn Ulvaeus added that recording the songs went very smoothly and that “it all came rushing back in a matter of seconds.”