ABBA hit ‘The Winner Takes It All’ surpasses one billion Spotify streams

ABBA’s 1980 hit ‘The Winner Takes It All’ has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, officially joining the platform’s ‘Billions Club’. This marks the third song by the Swedish group to reach this milestone, following ‘Dancing Queen’ and ‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)’. Together, these three tracks have accumulated over four billion streams.

Originally released as the lead single from the album ‘Super Trouper’, the song was written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with Agnetha Fältskog providing the lead vocals. The track has seen a resurgence in popularity due to social media trends, helping it become the group’s most-streamed song for the recent month. Fältskog expressed that the achievement is deeply meaningful to her, noting the personal nature of the lyrics.