Uploaded by MuserRecords on Feb 26, 2009
"The Winner Takes It All" is released as the first single from the ABBA's 'Super Trouper' album on July 21, 1980; it is a ballad, reflecting the end of a romance.
"The Winner Takes It All", originally titled "The Story of My Life", was written by both Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with Agnetha Fältskog singing the lead vocal. The lyrics to the song were thought to mirror the divorce between Ulvaeus and Fältskog in 1979. However, Ulvaeus himself denies this, saying the basis of the song "is the experience of a divorce, but it's fiction. There wasn't a winner or a loser in our case. A lot of people think it's straight out of reality, but it's not".
"The Winner Takes It All" was ABBA's eighth UK chart-topper; their first No. 1 in Britain since 1978. It remained at the top for two weeks. "The Winner Takes It All" also hit No. 1 in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and South Africa, and reached the Top 10 elsewhere throughout the world, including the United States, where it peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, ABBA's fourth and last American Top 10 hit. The song was also the group's second Billboard adult contemporary chart-topper (after "Fernando"). "The Winner Takes It All" was also a hit in Brazil: it was included on soundtrack of a very famous soap opera in 1980 called "Coração Alado" ("Winged Heart") as the main theme.
"The Winner Takes It All" also features in the ABBA-based musical and film, Mamma Mia!.
This video is an ABBA's TV performance of "The Winner Takes It All" on French TV (1980).
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melody its a tv music channel?
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bella cancion, son fantasticos. marcaron una gran epoca, y trancendieron en la tecnologia de varios paises en aparatos radiofonicos..
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ABBA...true artists using their own personal pain to write such a bittersweet but awesome song.
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it's a beautiful song
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Agnetha, its a pleassure love you regardless that never, ever will be close to you as I would want.
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i love agneta!
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Super trouper album is great
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Thank you for the upload and info.
Agnetha, what a dream woman you are.
1 year ago 2
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A masterpiece!!!
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Agnetha the lead singer brilliant, wheres frida o yeah shes at the back as usual x,
iamanabba 2 years ago 19
Great quality indeed. Thanks for sharing.
timephoenix 2 years ago 4