ABBA once again brought back the nostalgia of the 70s when his songs were leading the radio charts around the planet. The members of the Swedish band, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, They received this Friday from the hands of the King of Sweden, Charles XVI Gustav, the Royal Order of Vasaa decoration with which the stellar career of one of the most emblematic pop groups in the Nordic country.
The Royal Order of Vasa is a decoration that has been attributed since 1772 in Sweden to the Swedes who They have stood out for their services to the state and society.
ABBA, whose career took off internationally in the 1970s after win the 1974 Eurovision edition with the song “Waterloo”, was recognized in a ceremony presided over by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Swedenwho presented the decoration to the Swedish musicians amidst applause.
Fältskog, Lyngstad, Anderson and Ulvaeus became after the success of “Waterloo” true global icons.
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After the victory in Eurovision, the band did not stop adding songs that were successes that marked the lives of millions of people around the world such as “Mamma Mia”, “Dancing Queen”, “Thank you for the Music” or “The Winner Takes it All”.
In 1982, the members of ABBA announced their separation. after a decade-long career. Until then they released eight albums.
ABBA managed to sell 400 million recordshis songs achieved first place in sales 124 times in 23 countries and his albums reached the top 78 times in 21 countries, according to data from his record label, Universal Music.
The Swedish band entered the United States Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2021 they returned to musical production by presenting ninth and final album, “Voyage”, of which more than a million copies were sold in the first week of its publication.
The group made up for the success of the setback caused by the pandemic, which forced the cancellation of the tour in which the band members they wanted to reappear on stage through holographic avatars -called ABBAtars- along with musicians who played live.
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ABBA and the Swedish royal family have a particularly close relationship, since no one in Sweden forgets the occasion on which The band performed their song “Dancing Queen” on June 18, 1976 during lhe celebration of the nuptials of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden with the German Silvia Renate Sommerlaht, since then queen of Sweden.
In addition to the members of ABBA, they received this Friday the Royal Order of Vasa, among others, the doctor and biologist Svante Pääborecognized with the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2022 for his discoveries related to the genome of extinct hominids and human evolution, and businesswoman Antonia Margaret Axson Johnsonresponsible for the consortium dedicated to trade and services in the European market.
