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Super Trouper
Studio album by ABBA
Released	November 3, 1980
Recorded	Polar Studio February-October 1980
Genre	Pop
Length	41:57
Label	Polar (original release) Universal International (2001 reissue)
Producer(s)	Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
Professional reviews
Q September 2001, p.126 All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
ABBA chronology
Gracias Por La Música (1980)	Super Trouper (1980)	The Visitors (1981)

Super Trouper was a top-selling 1980 (see 1980 in music) album by Europop stars ABBA. Led by the international hit "Winner Takes It All", Super Trouper was their sixth British chart-topping album. Super Trouper 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.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Miscellanea 5 What is a Super Trouper? 6 Charts 7 Charts 8 Charts

All songs by Andersson and Ulvaeus, expect where noted.

1. "Super Trouper" – 4:11 Listen (help·info)
2. "The Winner Takes It All" – 4:55 Listen (help·info)
3. "On and On and On" – 3:40
4. "Andante, Andante" – 4:39
5. "Me And I" – 4:54
6. "Happy New Year" – 4:23
7. "Our Last Summer" – 4:19
8. "The Piper" – 3:26
9. "Lay All Your Love On Me" – 4:33
10. "The Way Old Friends Do" [live] – 2:57

Super Trouper was remastered and reissued in 1997 and 2001 with two bonus tracks:

11. "Elaine" – 3:44
12. "Put On Your White Sombrero" – 4:34

Super Trouper was remastered and reissued again in 2005 as part of the The Complete Studio Recordings box set with three bonus tracks:

11. "Elaine" – 3:45
    • B-side of "The Winner Takes It All".
12. "Andante, Andante (Spanish Version)" (Andersson, Ulvaeus, Buddy McCluskey, Mary McCluskey) – 4:40
13. "Felicidad" (Andersson, Ulvaeus, B. McCluskey, M. McCluskey) – 4:24
    • Spanish version of "Happy New Year".

Tracks 12–13 are from the Spanish and Latin American version of the album Super Trouper.

ABBA

• Benny Andersson – synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
• Agnetha Fältskog – vocals
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad – vocals
• Björn Ulvaeus – acoustic guitar, vocals

Additional personnel

• Ola Brunkert – drums
• Lars Carlsson – horn
• Anders Glenmark – guitar
• Rutger Gunnarsson – bass, guitar
• Janne Kling – flute, saxophone
• Per Lindvall – drums
• Janne Schaffer – guitar
• Ake Sundqvist – percussion
• Mike Watson – bass
• Lasse Wellander – guitar
• Kajtek Wojciechowski – saxophone

• Producers: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
• Engineer: Michael B. Tretow
• Arranger: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Rutger Gunnarsson
• Design: Rune Soderqvist

• The title track, after its success as a single in the United Kingdom, was parodied in a sketch on the BBC comedy programme, Not the Nine O'Clock News in 1981. The sketch comprised a very close musical parody of the song (with the melody of "One Of Us"), called "Super Duper", with rather scathing words about ABBA:

One of us is ugly, one of us is cute

One of us you'd like to see in her birthday suit

Two of us write music, two have way a song

Sorry, in translation, that line come out wrong

Anni-Frid, Benny, Björn, and Agnetha were played (in order) by Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Rowan Atkinson and Pamela Stephenson. The sketch was a very close parody of the video for "Super Trouper".

Super Trouper is a registered trademark owned by Strong Entertainment Lighting, for their brand of followspots, i.e., directional spotlights used to follow a performer on stage. A real life example: http://www.strongint.com/ProductView.aspx?c=127&pindex=3

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1980	Argentina Album Chart	2
1980	Australia Album Chart	5
1980	Austria Album Chart	3
1980	Belgium Album Chart	1
1980	Canada Album Chart	4
1980	Dutch Album Chart	1 (9)
1980	Finland Album Chart	2
1980	France Album Chart	8
1980	Italy Album Chart	13
1980	Japan Album Chart	8
1980	Mexico Album Chart	1 (1)
1980	New Zealand Album Chart	5
1980	Norway Album Chart	1 (3)
1980	Spain Album Chart	4
1980	Sweden Album Chart	1 (7)
1980	Switzerland Album Chart	1
1980	UK Album Chart	1 (9)
1980	The Billboard 200	17
1980	West Germany Album Chart	1 (2)
1980	Zimbabwe Album Chart	1 (6)

UK Singles

Year	Chart	Position
1980	"The Winner Takes It All"	UK Singles Chart	1 (2)
1980	"Super Trouper"	UK Singles Chart	1 (3)
1981	"Lay All Your Love On Me"	UK Singles Chart	7

US Singles

Year	Chart	Position
1980	"The Winner Takes It All"	The Billboard Hot 100	8
1980	"The Winner Takes It All"	Adult Contemporary	1
1980	"Lay All Your Love On Me/Super Trouper/On And On"	Club Play Singles	1
1981	"Super Trouper"	The Billboard Hot 100	45
1981	"Super Trouper"	Adult Contemporary	14
1981	"On And On And On"	The Billboard Hot 100	90

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Björn Ulvaeus - Benny Andersson - Agnetha Fältskog - Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Discography
Studio albums	Ring Ring - Waterloo - ABBA - Arrival - The Album - Voulez-Vous - Super Trouper - The Visitors
Compilations	Greatest Hits - Greatest Hits Vol. 2 - Gracias Por La Música - The Singles: The First Ten Years - ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits - More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits - Thank You For The Music - ABBA Oro: Grandes Éxitos - The Definitive Collection - Number Ones - The Complete Studio Recordings
Hit-Singles	"People Need Love" - "He Is Your Brother" - "Ring Ring" - "Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" - "Waterloo" - "Hasta Mañana" - "So Long" - "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" - "SOS" - "Mamma Mia" - "Fernando" - "Dancing Queen" - "Money, Money, Money" - "Knowing Me, Knowing You" - "The Name of the Game" - "Take a Chance on Me" - "Eagle" - "Summer Night City" - "Chiquitita" - "Does Your Mother Know" - "Voulez-Vous" - "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" - "I Have a Dream" - "The Winner Takes It All" - "Super Trouper" - "Lay All Your Love on Me" - "One of Us" - "When All Is Said And Done" - "Head over Heels" - "The Day Before You Came" - "Under Attack" - "Thank You for the Music"
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