Talk:ABBA Gold

ABBA Gold - 25th Anniversary Edition - June 2017
On June 30th, ABBA Gold will be re-issued as a 25th Anniversary Edition. It is a Double Vinyl Set on 'Gold' Vinyl- although it looks more like a  weird 'Green' colour, to some people. The 'Set' is the usual 19 Tracks. http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/feature/saturday-deluxe-6-may-2017/#more-131507 86.2.61.136 (talk) 22:51, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

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US Billboard Sales Chart
Gold reached a nrw peak #6 on the sales chart August 2018

https://www.billboard.com/charts/top-album-sales Coachtripfan (talk) 14:29, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

UPDATED CERTIFICATION
Abba Gold is now 18 x platinum in UK

https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/ Coachtripfan (talk) 12:58, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

April 2019 -- 'ABBA Gold's Up-Dated UK Sales
On Monday 22nd April, The Official Charts Company revealed that 'ABBA Gold' has sold over 5,580,000 UK copies, to date. I - and others - get it to be on more than that, by carefully adding up its UK Sales since September 1992. We get over 5,780,000 UK Sales for it. However, we know that Wikipedia is only interested in what can be Linked to - 'Officially - so here is the Link to The Official Charts Article, which gives it 5,580,000 UK Sales:

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/abbas-studio-albums-ranked__26063/ 86.2.61.136 (talk) 00:24, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Australian certification
Remove the Australian Gold/More Gold certification and the video version of Gold Greatest Hits. These are not the single album of Gold. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coachtripfan (talk • contribs) 15:06, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

'ABBA Gold' -- Some Corrected Statistics...
The Article states that 'ABBA Gold' has sold 5.5 Million UK copies. That is out of date. On Monday 8th August 2020, The British Phonographic Industry, (The B.P.I.), Awarded 'ABBA Gold' a 19th Platinum Award. That was for UK Sales of 5,700,000. On the same day, 'Greatest Hits' (One), by Queen was given a 22nd UK Platinum Award, for 6,600,000 UK Sales. (You have it on 6,100,000 UK Sales). The Article states that 'ABBA Gold' has spent 62 Weeks in the UK Top 10. That is wrong. It has spent 61 Weeks in the Top 10, as can be seen at The Official Charts Company Site. Nor has it been to No.1 7 times, in the UK. It is 5 times - for a Total of 8 Weeks. That's 1 Week in 1992, then 3 times in 1999 - 1 + 2 + 2, then once in 2008 - 2 Weeks. 86.2.61.136 (talk) 13:33, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 17 October 2020

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The result of the move request was: Consensus to move page. (non-admin closure) —  Young Forever (talk)   17:03, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Gold: Greatest Hits → ABBA Gold – This is the common name for the album. As you can see, people further up the page are calling it "ABBA Gold", and a random news search for the term returns pages and pages of hits under that name. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:09, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. BD2412  T 20:18, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Thanks Ritchie333, a good find. Randy Kryn (talk) 04:21, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

1994 and 1995 -- UK Year End Positions
'ABBA Gold' was the UK's 63rd Best Selling Album of 1994. It was 80th for 1995. You are missing that information. 81.103.92.196 (talk) 18:28, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

'ABBA Gold -- Still The UK's 2nd Best Selling Album.
In March 2021, The UK's Official Charts Company, said that Adele's '21', had 'nearly' sold 6 Million, in the UK. This would make it the UK's 2nd Best Selling Album, in the UK - pushing 'ABBA Gold' down to 3rd place. In fact, The Official Charts Company made a huge error. '21' is still on 17 UK Platinum Awards. This means that its UK Sales are more than 5,100,000, but less than 5,400,000. It got its 17th Platinum Award on Friday 24th August 2018. Since then it has spent just 29 Weeks on the UK Album Chart, with only 1 of them in the Top 40. As a contrast 'ABBA Gold' got its 19th UK Platinum Award, on Monday 10th August 2020. That was for UK Sales of 5,700,000. Since then, it has remained in the UK Top 75 - mostly in the Top 40. Adele's '21', cannot possibly have outsold 'ABBA Gold' in the UK. The ABBA Album has outsold it by several 100,000. It remains the UK's 2nd Best Selling Album. '21' by Adele, is in 4th place. 'Sgt Pepper' by The Beatles is 3rd. That Album got its 18th UK Platinum Award, on the 10th August 2020. For Sales of 5,400,000. '21' has yet to outsell, either the ABBA, or Beatles Albums, in the UK. 81.103.92.196 (talk) 18:47, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Your point? --Muhandes (talk) 22:10, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Gold Greatest Hits UK sales 6 million
One of the links you have has an old article where Gold is on 5.3m. Here is an up to date one showing 6 million. https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/taylor-swift-secures-eighth-official-number-1-album-with-red-taylor-s-version-__34462/

Or simply use BPI one again — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coachtripfan (talk • contribs) 18:07, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Both of these refer to "chart sales", aka album-equivalent unit, not to pure sales. The highest pure sales source we have is now is 5.61 million, as quoted in the article. --Muhandes (talk) 22:09, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

ABBA Gold -- Now On 6 Million UK Sales
On Friday 19th November 2021, the B.P.I., (British Phonographic Industry), gave 'ABBA Gold; a 20th UK Platinum Sales Award. That's 20 x 300,000 = 6 Million UK Sales. It is only the 2nd UK Album to reach 6 Million Sales. The other being 'Greatest Hits' by Queen. 81.103.92.196 (talk) 18:08, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * You mean 6 million album-equivalent unit. This is all now in the article. --Muhandes (talk) 22:02, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Orphaned references in ABBA Gold
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of ABBA Gold's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "BPI": From British Phonographic Industry:  From List of music recording certifications:  From Head Music:  From List of best-selling albums of the 21st century in the United Kingdom:  From List of best-selling albums by country: </li> <li>From List of best-selling albums in the United Kingdom: </li> </ul>

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UK Anniversary Edition
Here is the link to the Anniversary Edition (released in 2014) it was certfied Silver in 2018. 60,000 sales.

https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/15070-1693-2

Perhaps it's worth mentioning in Anniversary Edition this is a triple album. Gold, More Gold and album of B sides. Coachtripfan (talk) 09:20, 1 October 2022 (UTC)