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Name
Their name is usually written with the left B backwards Wolf O'Donnel (talk) 01:11, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Abba number one in France
I am afraid that it is not true that SOS was Abba's first number one in France. This song was not the most successful Abba song in that country, I do I do was more successful in France and sold 300 000 copies (you can check that on Infodisc or Top France). In fact, the best selling singles for Abba in France were : Fernando, Money Money Money, Gimme Gimme Gimme, they were awarded a gold disc. Svenjonal (talk) 15:52, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Active or not?
There's a minor edit war going on concerning whether Abba are still active or whether they ceased to be active in 2022. Do we need to reach a consensus on this? Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 13:21, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed here, as the tussle on this matter is becoming somewhat annoying. This needs to be pinned down. I don't know enough about the matter to have a hard position at this point, though. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 17:27, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- The years active is ridiculous. To say they've been active since 2016 suggests they have had the same activity for the past 8 years as 1974-82. When they recorded the songs for their recent album is irrelevant. They became publicly active in 2021. They were active 1972-82, 2021. Their current 'live' show is not activity ongoing.Tuzapicabit (talk) 22:29, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Cites for these claims would be useful for the discussion. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 22:42, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- The years active is ridiculous. To say they've been active since 2016 suggests they have had the same activity for the past 8 years as 1974-82. When they recorded the songs for their recent album is irrelevant. They became publicly active in 2021. They were active 1972-82, 2021. Their current 'live' show is not activity ongoing.Tuzapicabit (talk) 22:29, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
"ABBA" is not a plural noun
Throughout this article, "ABBA" is treated as a plural noun. The reason for this, given in a comment, was 'This Article is written in British English, in which pop rock groups take the plural form of the verb; do not change to "was"'.
No. "Pop rock group" is a collective noun. "ABBA were a Swedish pop group" is grammatically inaccurate, and should be changed to "ABBA was a Swedish pop group".
I would like to refer the commenter to this page on group words: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/piece-words-and-group-words MyCatCanBackflip (talk) 08:59, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
- BBC, Britannia, Los Angeles Times, Oxford and even Cambridge mostly agree that in British English, the plural verb is for the collective noun IF it is a collection of members. ABBA, most obviously, declares itself as a collection of people, and there are four of them. Now, a record label like Polar Music would be more likely to use "Polar Music is..." rather than "Polar Music are..." as it is a company with likely rotating and varying employees. I'm adept at both American and British English, so it's been a while using the latter. MISTERPITHER (talk) 00:17, 18 June 2025 (UTC)