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ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog announces comeback plans as solo artist

Two years after iconic Swedish pop group ABBA returned with a new album, singer Agnetha Fältskog has announced she will unveil a new single as a solo artist this week.

ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog announces comeback plans as solo artist
Agnetha Fältskog accepts an award for her last album, A, at Stockholm Pride in 2013. Photo: Christine Olsson/Scanpix/TT

“So… where do we go from here?,” the 73-year-old asked in a post to Instagram late on Tuesday.

She said the single — also titled “Where Do We Go From Here?” — would be premiering on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday.

Singers Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad represented the double A in the ABBA acronym alongside Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson.

The artist had last week teased that a new release was in the works, in an Instagram post that just said “Where Do We Go From Here?”, without further explanation.

While it took ABBA nearly 40 years to return with a new album after the band split in the early 1980s, Fältskog has since produced several solo albums, the last, “A”, came out in 2013.

ABBA were propelled to global stardom after their 1974 Eurovision Song Contest win with “Waterloo” but they split in 1982, a year after the album, “The Visitors”.

In 2018 the supergroup confirmed rumours they had returned to the studio to record new music.

ABBA finally announced a new album in September 2021 and released the singles “I still have faith in you” and “Don’t shut me down” ahead of the 10-track “Voyage” two months later.

ABBA also made a return to the stage with a London show the following year in the form of projected holograms — dubbed “ABBAtars.”

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Abba tells Trump to stop using their music after he plays ‘Winner Takes It All’

The Swedish band Abba have asked US presidential candidate Donald Trump not to use their music after their hit 'The Winner Takes it All' was played at a rally in Minnesota.

Abba tells Trump to stop using their music after he plays 'Winner Takes It All'

“Together with the members of ABBA, we have discovered that videos have been released where ABBAs music/videos has been used at Trump events, and we have therefore requested that such use be immediately removed and taken down,” a spokesperson from Universal Music, Abba’s record company, told The Local.

“Universal Music Publishing AB and Polar Music International AB have not received any request, so no permission or license has been granted to Trump.”

A reporter for SvD was at a Trump rally in St Cloud, Minnesota, in July, and witnessed the 1980 hit being played to a crowd of 8,000 of Trump’s supporters. 

The spokesperson would not comment on whether the Abba members had any political objection to their music being used by Trump or the Republican Party, or on whether Universal had any grounds to request royalties or any right to ban a candidate from using their music at a rally.   

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