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1980 single by ABBA

1980 unmarried by ABBA

"The Winner Takes It All"
ABBA - The Winner Takes It All-Elaine.png
Unmarried by ABBA
from the anthology Super Trouper
B-side "Elaine"
Released 21 July 1980 (1980-07-21)
Recorded 1980
Genre Pop
Length 4:54
Label Polar
Songwriter(southward) Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Producer(s) Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
ABBA singles chronology
"I Have a Dream"
(1979) 		"The Winner Takes It All"
(1980) 		"On and On and On"
(1980)
Music video
"The Winner Takes It All" on YouTube

"The Winner Takes It All" is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA. Released equally the first single from the grouping's seventh studio album, Super Trouper, it is a ballad in the key of 1000-apartment major, reflecting on the end of a relationship. The single's B-side was the not-album track "Elaine". The song peaked at No.i in several countries, including the UK, where it became their eighth chart-topper. Information technology was also the group's final top 10 striking in the United states. It was written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with Agnetha Fältskog singing the lead vocal.

History [edit]

Ulvaeus and Andersson started writing "The Winner Takes It All" in the summertime of 1979 in a cottage on the island of Viggsö. Co-ordinate to Andersson, the idea for the song suddenly came upwards "from old ideas, from old small musical pieces" they had. The demo had an original championship of "The Story of My Life" and the start arrangement for the song was uptempo with a constant beat. However, they felt their commencement effort "much too stiff and metrical", so they left the song for a few days while they worked on other songs. Four days later on they returned to the song, and Andersson came up the idea of using a French chanson-style arrangement with a descending piano line and a looser structure. Ulvaeus then recorded a demo using nonsense French words for lyrics, and took the recording dwelling house to write the lyrics for "The Winner Takes Information technology All". According to Ulvaeus, he drank whiskey while he was writing, and it was the quickest lyrics he ever wrote. He said, "I was drunk, and the whole lyric came to me in a rush of emotion in one hour." Ulvaeus said that when he gave the lyrics to Fältskog to read, "a tear or two welled up in her eyes. Considering the words really affected her."[1]

Ulvaeus denies the song is about his and Fältskog'southward divorce, saying the basis of the song "is the experience of a divorce, but it's fiction. 'Crusade one affair I can say is that there wasn't a winner or a loser in our case. A lot of people think information technology'southward straight out of reality, simply it'due south not".[2] However, Ulvaeus admitted that the heartache of their breakdown inspired the song, but noted that the words in the song should not be taken literally.[1] He said: "Neither Agnetha nor I were winners in our divorce."[three] American critic Chuck Klosterman, who says "The Winner Takes Information technology All" is "[the only] popular song that examines the cocky-aware guilt i feels when talking to a person who has humanely obliterated your heart" finds Ulvaeus' deprival difficult to believe in lite of the original championship.[4] And the booklet for the double CD compilation The Definitive Collection states "'The Winner Takes It All' is the song where Bjorn admits that the sad experience of his and Agnetha's divorce the previous year left its marking on the lyrics."

Fältskog has also repeatedly stated that though "The Winner Takes It All" is her favourite ABBA song and that while it has an splendid set of lyrics, the story is non that of her and Ulvaeus: in that location were no winners in their divorce, peculiarly as children were involved.[ citation needed ]

In a 1999 poll for Channel 5, "The Winner Takes It All" was voted Britain's favourite ABBA song. This feat was replicated in a 2010 poll for ITV. In a 2006 poll for a Channel Five programme, "The Winner Takes It All" was voted "Britain's Favourite Break-Upwardly Vocal."

Music video [edit]

The Societetshuset in Marstrand town, where the music video was filmed in the summer of 1980

A music video to promote the song was filmed in July 1980 on Marstrand, an island on the Swedish west coast. It was directed by Lasse Hallström. Appropriately, the video was shot ten days after the divorce of Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog was officially declared past the courts. It starts with a black-and-white photo montage of ABBA, then moves to the face up of Agnetha singing the song. Interspersed in the video are footages of her walking alone, still photographs and other happier members of the ring.[v]

Reception [edit]

"The Winner Takes It All" was a major success for ABBA, hitting No. ane in Kingdom of belgium, Republic of ireland, the netherlands, South Africa and the Great britain. It reached the Top 5 in Austria, Finland, French republic, W Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Zimbabwe, while peaking in the Top 10 in Australia, Canada, Italian republic, Spain and the United States (where it became ABBA's fourth and final American Height 10 striking, peaking at No. eight; the song spent 26 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, more than any other ABBA unmarried).[6] Information technology was also the group'southward second Billboard Developed Contemporary #i (after "Fernando").[7] "The Winner Takes It All" was also a hit in Brazil: it was included on the soundtrack of "Coração Alado" ("Winged Heart"), a pop lather opera in 1980, as the main theme.

The track was listed as the 23rd most popular unmarried on the US Billboard year-terminate chart for 1981.[8]

As of September 2021, it is the grouping's fifth-biggest song in the United kingdom with 920,000 chart sales (including pure sales and streaming numbers).[9]

Track list [edit]

No. Championship Length
ane. "The Winner Takes It All" 4:55
2. "Elaine" 3:42

Personnel [edit]

  • Agnetha Fältskog – lead vocals
  • Anni-Frid Lyngstad – backing vocals
  • Björn Ulvaeus – backing vocals
  • Benny Andersson – keyboards & synthesizers, backing vocals

Boosted musicians [edit]

  • Ola Brunkert – drums
  • Mike Watson – bass
  • Lasse Wellander – guitars
  • Rutger Gunnarsson – string arrangements

Charts [edit]

The single had a 7-week run in the Great britain Acme 20 (from 27 July to 7 September 1980), including 2 weeks at No. ane.

Certifications and sales [edit]

Covers [edit]

  • Cher covered the song for her 2018 album Dancing Queen, inspired by Mamma Mia! Hither We Become Again, in which she starred.[46]
  • Beverley Craven covered the vocal for her 1993 album Love Scenes.[47] [48]
  • Carla Bruni covered the vocal in her 2017 album French Touch.
  • Susan Boyle covered the song for her 2012 anthology Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage.[49]
  • At Vance covered the song for their 2001 album Dragonchaser
  • The song is covered in the finale of Goggle box series Glee past Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison every bit Sue Sylvester and Will Schuester respectively.
  • In 2010, Liverpudlian singer Tor James Faulkner covered the track on his anthology The Reflection to raise money and sensation for eating disorder clemency Beat.[50]
  • In 1980 a Czech version (A ty se ptáš, co já – And you are asking what about me) was recorded by Czech singer Helena Vondráčková, with the lyrics past Zdeněk Borovec.[51]
  • In September 2021, Rick Astley performed a stripped-dorsum piano cover version of this vocal.[52]
  • The vocal is featured as a number in the ABBA-based musical Mamma Mia!. In the flick accommodation, it is performed past Meryl Streep every bit Donna Sheridan.

In Pop Civilisation [edit]

  • The song is featured in the episode "Winner" of the fourth season of Amend Call Saul; a karaoke version is sung by characters Jimmy McGill and Chuck McGill, played by [Bob Odenkirk]] and Michael McKean respectively.[53]

Run across as well [edit]

  • Listing of Billboard Adult Gimmicky number ones of 1981

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External links [edit]

  • Video from official Vevo aqueduct on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winner_Takes_It_All

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