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18.4.04
Your favourite ABBA tracks: #7 The Visitors (Cracking Up)

The title track from ABBA’s final album of original material becomes the highest-placed non-single in our survey. (ABBA’s next six albums in the UK chart after this were all repackaged and regurgitated previously released material.) The album topped the UK charts in December 1981, but the decline was setting in. The Visitors only managed 21 weeks in the UK album chart, whereas the previous six albums had each managed between 43 and 130 weeks. The Visitors didn’t spawn any number one singles either, after its predecessor, Super Trouper, had produced two. No matter though, it did produce a single that was so popular amongst World Of Chig readers that it’s still to come in this survey…

There's an excellent analysis of the tracks on the album (and some that didn't make it) here.

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