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28.4.04
Your favourite ABBA tracks: #3 Knowing Me, Knowing You

Their 9th UK hit from February 1977 and their 5th UK number one in March and April. This single gave ABBA their second-longest run at the top of the UK chart, with five weeks. (The longest was their previous number one, Dancing Queen, which topped the chart for six, although the single in between these two, ‘Money, Money, Money’ only made #3.) This single topped the chart in its fourth week, deposing the sublime ‘Chanson D’Amour’ by Manhattan Transfer, and eventually giving way to Deniece Williams’ ‘Free’. David Soul probably hates this ABBA single, as he spent three weeks below it at #2 with ‘Going In With My Eyes Open’. His singles before and after made #1, so ABBA deprived him of a number one hat-trick, but they were about to do it again themselves. ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ was the first single in their second hat-trick of consecutive number ones, followed up by chart-toppers ‘The Name Of The Game’ and ‘Take A Chance On Me’. This is the highest ranked track from the ‘Arrival’ album in this survey. I would have put money on that honour going to ‘Dancing Queen’, which languishes at #6 here. Thank you, dear readers, for your unpredictability.

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