This 1992 compilation, released nearly a decade after Swedish pop royals ABBA disbanded in 1983, is one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and it's not difficult to see why: every single one of the 19 hits gathered here, from "Dancing Queen" to "Mamma Mia" to "Voulez-Vous" to "Waterloo," sounds as singularly fresh and sparklingly perfect the 200th time you hear it as it did the first time you heard it. ABBA never gets old. They really did strike a vein of pure gold. 

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