Ring Ring 50th anniversary

Half-speed mastered 45 rpm double LP

LP1

Side A:
1. Ring Ring (bara du slog en signal)
2. Another Town, Another Train
3. Disillusion

Side B:
1. People Need Love
2. I Saw It In The Mirror
3. Nina, Pretty Ballerina

LP2

Side C:
1. Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
2. Me And Bobby And Bobby’s Brother
3. He Is Your Brother

Side D:
1. Ring Ring (English version)
2. I Am Just A Girl
3. Rock’n Roll Band

Catalogue number: 00602445928685

Ring Ring – The Singles box set

5 x coloured 7″ from the album Ring Ring

People Need Love/Merry-Go-Round
He Is Your Brother/Santa Rosa
Ring Ring (bara du slog en signal)/Åh, vilka tider
Ring Ring/She’s My Kind Of Girl
Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)/I Am Just A Girl)

Limited edition of 5,500 numbered copies

Catalogue number: 00602448432223

Fans limited edition numbers

7 inch picture disc singles

People Need Love/Merry-Go-Round

Catalogue number: 00602448459435

He Is Your Brother/Santa Rosa

Catalogue number: 00602448459480

Ring Ring (bara du slog en signal)/Åh, vilka tider

Catalogue number: 00602448459008

Ring Ring/She’s My Kind Of Girl

Catalogue number: 00602448459428

Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)/I Am Just A Girl

Catalogue number: 00602448459459

Postcard

Bundled with half-speed mastered LP exclusively from udiscover stores and some official ABBA stores

Ordering links

* stores with postcard bundled with double LP

ABBA store (note: this link will take you to local sites, depending on availablility. If physical items not available, link directs to digital sources)
ABBA The Museum
ABBA Fan Club Shop (Europe only) *
ABBA Fan Club Shop (rest of world)
udiscover music UK
udiscover Germany *
The Abbey Road Store
Bravado Germany *
Bengans

Official ABBA stores

Belgium *
Canada
Germany *
Netherlands *
Spain *
Sweden
UK *
USA *

Released 19th May 2023

News

The year of 2023 sees the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s debut album, Ring Ring, an important album in their history as it shows us the birth of the group. This is the fascinating start of their journey: finding out who they are and where their strengths lie.

Reaching record shops in Sweden on 26 March 1973, Ring Ring offered a wealth of great pop tunes. There was, for instance, ‘People Need Love’, the very first ABBA single, and ‘He Is Your Brother’, a popular number on ABBA’s 1977 tour of Europe in Australia. Crucially, on the title track the ABBA sound was born, as the group discovered how attractive the sound of multi-layered vocals was, and how exciting a song could sound if you made use of all the possibilities of the recording studio.

The public responded well to ‘Ring Ring’ – the song and the album. Famously, for two consecutive weeks in April 1973, the Swedish ‘Ring Ring’ single was at number one, the English-language version at number two, and the Ring Ring album at number three on the combined singles-and-albums chart used in Sweden at the time. Record-buyers had fallen head over heels in love with this brand new group. And ABBA’s sense of joy in trying different song styles and thrilling studio trickery can still be felt today, half a century later.

The Ring Ring album was originally credited to Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida – the name ABBA didn’t quite exist yet. The group itself almost didn’t exist, as the two ladies were still pursuing solo careers, and the two men were busy with many different projects when the album was recorded. But its huge success sealed the deal: from now on they would be ABBA.