The Swedish band’s 1992 Best Of collection has inched ahead of The Beatles’ 1967 album by nearly 15,000 copies with both albums selling over 5.1 million copies in the UK.

The announcement coincides with this year’s Eurovision Song Contest being held in the group’s homeland; ABBA famously won Eurovision in 1974 with Waterloo, which became their first ever Number 1 single on the UK’s Official Singles Chart.

ABBA founder / songwriter Björn Ulvaeus told OfficialCharts.com "It’s feels unreal - outselling the greatest record of all time!"

An estimated one in five British households owns a copy of either 'Gold' or 'Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'.

'Gold' features all nine of the Swedish band’s Official Singles Chart Number 1s – including 'Waterloo', 'Mamma Mia', 'Fernando', 'Dancing Queen', 'Knowing Me Knowing You', 'The Name Of The Game', 'Take A Chance On Me', 'The Winner Takes It All', and 'Super Trouper' – and has spent a total of eight weeks at No.1 on the Official Albums Chart.

Former-ABBA blonde Agnetha Faltskog may have her highest charting solo album of her career later today (May 19). Faltskog's new album, 'A', could go Top 10 when the new Official Albums Chart Top 100 is announced. 

Watch the video to Faltskog's favourite ABBA song, 'Winner Takes It All' below:

]]> Pressparty http://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/londonnewsdesk/view/76083/ Fri, 17 May 2013 21:26:42 +0100 http://www.pressparty.com/pg/newsdesk/londonnewsdesk/view/76083/ Songstress Bonnie Tyler has admitted that she's doubtful her Eurovision Song Contest entry will win this year because people keep telling her that it's too good.

She will represent the UK in Malmo, Sweden this coming weekend (May 18) with a track called 'Believe In Me' and Wales Online has quoted her as saying that fans keep saying it's unlikely the UK will win with such a strong offering:

"It has been said to me over the last couple of weeks, ‘You’re not going to win this Bonnie, your song is too good!’ Which is crazy, huh?"

Referring to being asked to enter Eurovision 2013, she added: "Firstly it was like, ‘Wow, Eurovision!’ I’d been asked 30 years ago and I couldn’t do it because I was so busy with 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart', which was number one and the album was number one too."

“About 120 million people watch Eurovision and I have a lot of friends in Europe. Maybe that’s why the BBC asked me because maybe they thought there’s a good chance. We have got a good song but you never know what can happen in Eurovision. It’ll be a great experience, I’m sure about that.”

Watch her perform the song live on Graham Norton's show here:

The news that the heartthrobs revealed was of a stadium tour that will take them around the world next year, called the 'Where We Are' tour, and so far dates have been confirmed in South America, the UK and Ireland.

Following the announcement, the hashtag '#onebigdisappointment' made it into the Top 10 worldwide trending topics list as fans shared their disappointment at the lack of more international concerts.

In just 80 minutes after the news was unveiled, over 1 million tweets had been uploaded about the stadium tour and to put that information into context, it took 4 hours for the same amount of tweets to be shared about the death of Margaret Thatcher last month.

The lads have been expressing their excitement over the 'Where We Are' jaunt on their individual social networking pages and member Niall Horan updated his Twitter account last night (May 16), writing: "We are a family! We stick together forever! Love you all! Best fans on the planet."

Watch part of the boys' press conference about the tour here:

The picture, which she uploaded very early this morning (May 16), shows the 'Your Body' songstress posing in a tight black midriff-baring ensemble in front of a window that overlooks the sea (pictured below, left).

She shows off a tiny waist and toned arms, and accompanied the snapshot with the caption:

"On set shooting music video with @Alexoficial for #HoyTengoGanasDeTi"

She returned to the social networking site this afternoon and told her fans that the song, 'Hoy Tengo Ganas De Ti', has shot to No.1 in an amazing 17 countries: "#1 in 17 countries! xoxo!!!"

The singer picked up five VEVO Certified awards for the impressive feat, thanking fans in the process.

The video streaming website has uploaded a number of Katy Perry VEVO Certified clips online, including one of fans presenting her with the awards.

Speaking about the video milestones, Perry said:

"I just want to thank all of my fans and friends online. Thanks for your attention, love and support. Making a music video is not just another way to push your song; it's actually another way for me to give it another layer. I have so many different thoughts and ideas and moods and I love displaying all of them in my videos."

The videos which have gained over 100m views are 'Firework', 'E.T.', 'Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)', 'The One That Got Away' and 'Teenage Dream'.