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Arrival Studio album by  ABBA Released 11 October 1976 Recorded 4 August 1975 – 18 September 1976 Studio Metronome, Stockholm, Sweden Genre

• Pop 
• Eurodisco

• Polar 
• Epic (1976 UK release)

• Benny Andersson 
• Björn Ulvaeus

1. "Dancing Queen"
   Released: 16 August 1976
2. "Money, Money, Money"
   Released: 1 November 1976
3. "Knowing Me, Knowing You"
   Released: 18 February 1977
4. "That's Me"
   Released: 25 July 1977

Arrival is the fourth studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally released in Sweden on 11 October 1976 by Polar Records. It became one of ABBA's most successful albums to date, producing three of their biggest hits: "Dancing Queen", "Money, Money, Money" and "Knowing Me, Knowing You". The track "Fernando", which had been released as a single in March 1976, was included on the Australian and New Zealand versions of the album. Arrival was the best-selling album of 1977 in the United Kingdom and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.

In 2024, the album was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Critical reception

Arrival received rave reviews upon release. In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, music critic Ken Tucker panned Arrival as "Muzak mesmerizing in its modality" and wrote, "By reducing their already vapid lyrics to utter irrelevance, lead singers Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog are liberated to natter on in their shrill voices without regard to emotion or expression." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a "C", indicating "a record of clear professionalism or barely discernible inspiration, but not both."

In a review upon the album's 2001 reissue by Universal Records, AllMusic editor Bruce Eder found the material "brilliant" and complimented the reissue's "upgraded sound" as well as "those dramatic musical effects that this group played for maximum effect, which gave their music a raw power that their detractors usually overlooked; in the new edition, it's impossible to ignore." In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), music journalist Arion Berger recommended its Universal reissue to consumers.

Commercial performance and legacy

The album became a major seller all over the world, becoming the top-selling album of 1977 in both the UK and West Germany, among others. It had three of ABBA's biggest hits – "Dancing Queen," "Money Money Money" and "Knowing Me, Knowing You" – and in some territories a fourth with the inclusion of "Fernando" (which had featured in most markets on their earlier Greatest Hits compilation). "That's Me" was released as a single in Japan only.

Arrival was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die; the album re-entered the UK album charts at #94 for the week of August 3, 2018, for the first time since 1979.

Track listing

The information has been adapted from the official ABBA website.[15] All tracks are written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, except where noted.

• Andersson 
• Stig Anderson 
• Ulvaeus

• Andersson 
• Anderson 
• Ulvaeus

• Andersson 
• Anderson 
• Ulvaeus

• Andersson 
• Anderson 
• Ulvaeus