ABBA Reveals New Music Is Coming in “September Or October”

Legendary Swedish pop group Abba is planning to release new music in the fall, more than a year after they announced that they’d recorded two new songs for a “Virtual Abba” experience in collaboration with American Idol creator Simon Fuller.

The project which was first announced in 2016, was scheduled to premiere on NBC and ABC at the end of last year, but delays kept pushing it back. Now, Abba band member Bjorn Ulvaeus says at least one of the new songs called “I Still Have Faith In You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down” will be released “in September or October.”

On Wednesday, Ulvaeus told Denmark’s Ekstra Bladettabloid that “it takes an extremely long time” to make a video with the avatars of the group members, adding “it has been delayed for too long.”

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In January, Abba group member Benny Andersson revealed in an interview posted on the fan site IceTheSite that legal complications had delayed the release. 

“When that press release [about the TV show and recordings] came out, everything was up and running smoothly, then it didn’t run as smoothly,” he said. “We are still trying to establish the agreement that needs to be done to be able to continue. We are good. It’s the other side, everything that has to be done, everything that has to be drawn. It’s delayed. It’s not our doing.” 

In a separate interview, Andersson also said that the group could record a third song as well. “We may do another one when the show [launches],” he said in the interview posted last month. “And that’s gonna take another six-eight months. The reasons we did the new songs was to put them in the new show. Now when this show comes up these songs will be old because they [will have been released when the show launches]. So we said we need to do another one for the show.” 

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He also admitted that he had not yet spoken with his fellow group members Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad about the songs but said he thinks they would approve.

In 1974, Abba shot to fame after winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with “Waterloo.” Since then the group has become the most popular musical artists in history, having sold millions of album worldwide since their formation in Sweden in 1972. The group which broke up in 1982 is known for their sophisticated songs which set the stage for pop music. Abba has not released a studio album since its 1981 album The Visitors and they have not toured since their 1970 ABBA: The Tour.