BBC Radio 2 listeners vote Dancing Queen their favourite ABBA Song

27 April 2024 - Press release

 

Radio 2 listeners have crowned Dancing Queen their favourite ABBA song, taking the No.1 spot in Your Ultimate ABBA Song, with tens of thousands of votes cast by music fans. In No.2 spot is The Winner Takes It All, No.3 is Thank You For The Music, No. 4 is Slipping Through My Fingers and No.5 is The Day Before You Came, with the full Top 30 chart below.

The vote – which commemorated 50 years since they won the Eurovision Song Contest on 6^th April, 1974 in Brighton with Waterloo - was launched by Gary Davies on 5^th April and closed on 18^th April. Listeners could select up to five of their favourite tracks from a list of 45 titles comprising all ABBA's UK Top 40 hits, plus a selection of other classics as chosen by Radio 2's panel of ABBA superfans, including presenters Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Sara Cox. 

If you can't wait to hear the Top 30 from 1-3pm on Radio 2's Super Saturday, 11^th May, listeners can hear Gary Davies present Your Ultimate ABBA Song now on BBC Sounds. For superfans of Agnetha, Frida, Björn and Benny, Gary also presents a special playlist for BBC Sounds, Your Ultimate ABBA Song: The Extras, featuring the 15 ABBA songs that didn't make it into the Top 30.

Gary Davies said, "Dancing Queen is one of those songs that just makes you happy every time you hear it and still gets any dancefloor full to this day - a guaranteed singalong! Thank you Radio 2 listeners for crowning such a brilliant track Your Ultimate ABBA Song."

Jeff Smith, Radio 2's Head of Music said: "Radio 2 listeners' love of ABBA has not diminished since they burst onto the music scene in the 1970s, and Dancing Queen is absolutely one of the most classic pop songs ever recorded." 

See the full Top 30 Chart and other Radio 2 ABBA highlights in the full press release here:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/your-ultimate-abba-song-results-announced