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12 tracks · 36 min
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Ring Ring is the debut studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released in Scandinavia and a limited number of other territories, including West Germany, Australia, South Africa and Mexico, on March 26, 1973 through Polar Music. The album was a chart-topping album in Belgium, and a big success in Holland, Norway and South Africa. The album was re-released in Australasia in 1975, but was not released in the United Kingdom until 1992, and the United States until three years later. The re-release artwork for the album (see below) uses the name "ABBA", although at the time of the album's original release, the name ABBA had not yet been coined, and instead was awkwardly credited to "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida". Ring Ring was first released on CD in Sweden in 1988; a West German CD release followed in 1990 (later released internationally). The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form three times; first in 1997, then in 2001 and again in 2005 as part of the The Complete Studio Recordings box set.
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The original 1973 Polar version of the album opens with "Ring Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)", the Swedish version of the track, and places the English language version as track four on side two. The track "She's My Kind of Girl", included on the international editions, is in fact a song by Björn & Benny which dates back to 1969, which was a hit in Japan, and had also been included on the b-side of the English version of the "Ring Ring" single in Scandinavia. Ring Ring also features a song co-written by Agnetha Fältskog. Although she had composed much of her Swedish solo output, the song "Disillusion", for which she wrote the music, is the only song released on an ABBA album to feature a songwriting contribution from her. When the first song "People Need Love" was recorded in the Spring of 1972, the group was just one of many projects the four members were involved in. Only after the title track, "Ring Ring" became a hit, did the four decide to go on working together as a permanent group.
In brief
- Is Ring Ring good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Ring Ring 3.0/5 from 1 rating.
- When was Ring Ring released?
- Ring Ring was released in 1973 on Polar Music International AB.
- How many tracks are on Ring Ring?
- Ring Ring has 12 tracks, with a runtime of 36 minutes.
- What genre is Ring Ring?
- Ring Ring is catalogued under Pop.
- What BPM is Ring Ring?
- Ring Ring runs at a median tempo of 128 BPM across its tracks, most often in A major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Ring Ring?
- Listeners of Ring Ring also rate Thriller by Michael Jackson, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John, Abbey Road by The Beatles.
Ring Ring at a glance
- Label
- Polar
- Produced by
- Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
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