To animate the avatars, the ABBA band members wore motion-capture suits and were filmed using 160 cameras, with graphics later added by Industrial Light & Magic, a visual effects company. Dubbed the "ABBAtars", they will appear during the ABBA Voyage concerts in place of the four actual band members. ĪBBA first announced they were preparing digital avatars in September 2017. Tour ĭuring the album announcement live stream, ABBA also announced a concert residency, known as ABBA Voyage, with concerts starting from in a custom-built venue at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. The two songs first announced in 2018, " I Still Have Faith in You" and " Don't Shut Me Down", were confirmed as the double-sided lead single from Voyage during the September 2021 live stream.
The band announced during a 2 September 2021 YouTube live stream that Voyage would be released on 5 November 2021. Billboards were erected in London, and social media accounts titled "ABBA Voyage" were also set up. Promotion for Voyage began with the website, going live on 26 August 2021. Whilst the vocals date from 1978, its instrumentation was mostly re-recorded. The reworked song was released as a single two weeks before the album, on 22 October 2021. One of the album's tracks, " Just a Notion", was previously partially included in a demo version as part of the medley "ABBA Undeleted" from the 1994 Thank You for the Music box set. However, this project was later cancelled in favour of the "ABBAtar" tour announced months prior.
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The new songs initially were intended to support both a TV special produced by NBC and the BBC and the ABBA Voyage tour which the TV special itself supported.
Two years later, in April 2018, they announced they had recorded two new songs, " I Still Have Faith in You" and " Don't Shut Me Down". On 6 June 2016, however, ABBA did informally reunite at a private party in Stockholm. There is simply no motivation to re-group." Ulvaeus reiterated this in a 2014 interview while promoting the publication of ABBA: The Official Photo Book. In July 2008, Björn Ulvaeus categorically stated to The Sunday Telegraph, "We will never appear on stage again. In 2000, they reportedly turned down an offer of $1 billion to perform again. However, the members steadfastly refused to reunite. Renewed interest in the band grew from the 1990s onwards following the worldwide success of their greatest hits album ABBA Gold, the ABBA-based musical Mamma Mia! and the subsequent film of the same name, followed by its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, and the use of their songs in some other film soundtracks such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Muriel's Wedding. Background ĪBBA informally split up in 1983, following the release of their retrospective greatest hits album The Singles: The First Ten Years in late 1982. A digital concert residency in support of the album, ABBA Voyage, opened in London on. " Just a Notion" was issued as the third single on 22 October 2021, followed by the fourth single " Little Things" on 3 December. The album was supported by the dual single release of " I Still Have Faith in You" and " Don't Shut Me Down", released alongside the album announcement on 2 September 2021. The album has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. The album was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2023 Grammy Awards, in addition to nominations for "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down", the former for Record of the Year at the 2022 Grammy Awards (the first Grammy nomination for the group), and the latter for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 2023 Grammy Awards. It also became the group's highest-charting studio album ever in Canada and the United States, debuting at number two on the charts in both countries. Voyage debuted atop the charts of Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. It is also the first album without long-time bassist Rutger Gunnarsson and drummer Ola Brunkert. With ten songs written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, it is the group's first album of new material in forty years. Voyage is the ninth studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, released 5 November 2021. " I Still Have Faith in You" / " Don't Shut Me Down".
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