Talk:Thank You for the Music

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There is a video on youtube, a performance by Karen Carpenter at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVmVIV5kGjs&feature=related Not sure how to enter this into the article. There is a reference to when and where it aired, but no link. Are external links allowed? == WHY IT PERFORMED POORLY IN THE UK  ==

'Thank You For The Music' really performed badly, (No.33 in 1983), in the UK due to its massive UK Sales on 'The Album', (around 1,100,000), & 'Greatest Hits Vol.2', (around 1,200,000). By 1983 every person who bought ABBA records already had that Track. That is why it did badly. Had they been thinking logically, Epic Records would have made 'Our Last Summer' the 'A' Side, as that had only sold on 1 ABBA Album - about 1,150,000 - on 'Super Trouper'. As to ABBA's poor UK Singles Sales in 1982 - 3 Singles all failing to reach the Top 20. Queen had a very poor 1982 also. Even worse than ABBA's. 3 1982 Singles, of which none reached the Top 10, & only 1 reached the Top 20, & an Album, 'Hot Space', that got no higher than No.4. Had Queen done what ABBA did, (split up), people would now say that it was best that they had, as their popularity was gone. However, Queen came back (1984), & were as big as ever. Their 1982 decline was forgotten, & they were big for the rest of the 1980's. ABBA never tried to return, after 1982, but I'm sure that they would have been big again, too. For example, had ABBA returned with 'I Know Him So Well', in 1985. It would have easily been their 10th UK No.1 Single. Instead, ABBA chose not to return, & Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson had a 1985 UK No.1 with that Benny & Bjorn Song - selling over 820,000 UK copies of it. 86.13.2.211 (talk) 22:03, 16 July 2013 (UTC) dance queen of ch pH good