The song The Winner Takes It All was the best-known on this album. The new album Super Trouper, released in 1980, was allegedly dedicated to the personal problems of Björn and Agnetha. During the tour over Japan it became clear that the character of the songs had changed: they became more personal. Gradually the popularity of the band started falling. But the divorce of Agnetha and Björn threw a shadow on the reputation of ABBA. This song became the most popular disco-hit in Europe. 2, with a new track Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) on it. In 1979 ABBA released an album Greatest Hits Vol. The best known songs of this album were Chiquitita, Does Your Mother Know, Voulez-Vous and I Have A Dream. In April 1979 the album Voulez-Vous gained the first place in Europe and Japan and was best-selling in Canada, Australia and the USA. In December 1977 the band released one more work The Album, but it was not as popular as the previous one though included several hits such as The Name of the Game and Take A Chance On Me. Then ABBA gave 11 concerts in Australia, gaining remarkable success there and shooting a film ABBA: The Movie. In 1977 ABBA started a tour round Europe and its members were treated like superstars everywhere. The next album Arrival (1976) got wonderful reviews from the most powerful European and American critics with the songs Money, Money, Money, Knowing Me, Knowing You, Dancing Queen. In November 1975 ABBA released the album Greatest Hits that contained their most popular songs and the song Fernando, originally written in Swedish for Frida. The album ABBA (1975) and singles SOS and Mamma Mia were in the top lists in the USA and the European countries. The following years the popularity of ABBA got unprecedented growth.
The tour was not as profitable as the musicians wanted it to be, but they received a very warm welcome in Scandinavia. In 1974 ABBA made the first international tour round Germany, Denmark and Austria. The first most successful song of ABBA was Waterloo (1974), it won the first position in Eurovision contest at Brighton Dome in England and became a real hit. In 1973 Stig Anderson, the manager of the band, began calling them ABBA, as the name Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid was very inconvenient. The songs People Need Love and Ring Ring (that won the third position at the Eurovision Song Contest) were released under this name. First, their band was called Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. Anni-Frid, better known as Frida, became Benny's wife in October 1978. In some time they became not only the members of one band, but spouses - Agnetha and Björn were married in July 1971.
In 1969 two women appeared in their lives: Agnetha Fältskog, a solo singer, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. At that time they had already been successful musicians: Björn was a member of the Hootenanny Singers, and Benny played keyboards in The Hep Stars. ABBA appeared in June 1966 shortly after Björn Ulvaeus met Benny Andersson at a party.
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