Australian singles

All ABBA singles released in Australia, either through music stores or online sources

  • Release dates marked (?) are unconfirmed or estimated
  • Singles with no chart commentary did not enter the singles chart
  • Singles with no picture sleeve image were released only in generic RCA sleeves
  • Sleeves shown with each single are those that are known to have been available in that combination
  • Some singles originally issued in picture sleeves were later available in generic RCA sleeves
  • Sleeves marked (unconfirmed) images have been seen online of these early singles in later sleeves, but it is not confirmed whether these singles were actually commercially available in these sleeves or placed in them for replacement or resale

Ring Ring / Rock ’n Roll Band

[credited Björn & Benny, Anna & Frida]

RCA SINGLE: 102357
Released: 17 September 1973
Discontinued: 1974

Kent Report chart entry: #92 12 November 1973
Highest position: #92 12 November 1973 (2 weeks)
Final entry: #92 19 November 1973
Weeks in chart: 2


Waterloo / Watch Out

RCA SINGLE: 102436
Released: April 1974
Discontinued: 1979

Kent Report chart entry: #70 10 June 1974
Highest position: #4 19 August 1974
Final entry: #63 4 November 1974
Weeks in chart: 22

Top 100 singles of 1974: #36


Ring Ring [remix] / Rock ’n Roll Band

RCA SINGLE: 102496
Released: July 1974
Discontinued: 1979

Kent Report chart entry: #90 13 January 1975
Highest position: #90 13 January 1975 (2 weeks)
Final entry: #96 27 January 1975
Weeks in chart: 3

Kent Report chart entry: #56 19 January 1976
Highest position: #7 22 March 1976
Final entry: #76 12 July 1976
Weeks in chart: 31

Top 100 singles of 1976: #49

No image available for side 2 of this label style


Honey, Honey / Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)

RCA SINGLE: 102514
Released: September 1974
Discontinued: 1979

Kent Report chart entry: #93 4 November 1974
Highest position: #30 30 December 1974
Final entry: #93 10 March 1975
Weeks in chart: 19


So Long / Hasta Mañana

RCA SINGLE: 102560
Released: 25 November 1974 (?)
Discontinued: 1979

So Long
Did not chart

Hasta Mañana
Kent Report chart entry: #93 10 May 1976
Highest position: #16 12 July 1976
Final entry: #93 6 September 1976
Weeks in chart: 18


I’ve Been Waiting For You / King Kong Song

RCA SINGLE: 102561
Released: 25 November 1974 (?)
Discontinued: 1979

I’ve Been Waiting For You
Kent Report chart entry: #89 14 April 1975
Highest position: #49 12 May 1975
Final entry: #81 16 June 1975
Weeks in chart: 10

King Kong Song
Kent Report chart entry: #98 10 March 1977
Highest position: #94 21 March 1977
Final entry: #96 28 March 1977
Weeks in chart: 3


“Waterloo” EP

Side 1:
Waterloo
Watch Out

Side 2:
Ring Ring
Rock ’n Roll Band

RCA EP: 20605
Released: 9 December 1974 (?)
Discontinued: 1979
Reissued October 1979

Kent Report chart entry: #88 22 March 1976
Highest position: #60 5 April 1976
Final entry: #67 19 April 1976
Weeks in chart: 5

Note:

In 1976 some stores sold this EP in place of the Ring Ring single, which probably affected chart placings of both records


I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do / Rock Me

RCA SINGLE: 102607
Released: April 1975
Discontinued: 1 April 1981

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
Kent Report chart entry: #83 7 July 1975
Highest position: #1 13 October 1975 (3 weeks)
Final entry: #78 1 March 1976
Weeks in chart: 34

Top 100 singles of 1975: #13

Rock Me
Kent Report chart entry: #43 12 April 1976
Highest position: #4 14 June 1976 (2 weeks)
Final entry: #68 4 October 1976
Weeks in chart: 26

Top 100 singles of 1976: #14


Mamma Mia / Hey, Hey Helen

RCA SINGLE: 102671
Released: 8 September 1975 (?)
Discontinued: 1983 (?)

Kent Report chart entry: #52 22 September 1975
Highest position: #1 3 November 1975 (10 weeks)
Final entry: #65 7 June 1976
Weeks in chart: 39

Top 100 singles of 1975: #3
Top 100 singles of 1976: #28

Note:

Original 1975 single billed as ‘Mama Mia’, title corrected on 1976 reissue


SOS / Man In The Middle

RCA SINGLE: 102690
Released: 27 October 1975 (?)
Discontinued: 1983 (?)

Kent Report chart entry: #77 10 November 1975
Highest position: #1 12 January 1976
Final entry: #81 24 May 1976
Weeks in chart: 29

Top 100 singles of 1975: #52
Top 100 singles of 1976: #16


Fernando / Tropical Loveland

RCA SINGLE: 102746
Released: 8 March 1976
Discontinued: 1 April 1981

Kent Report chart entry: #75 15 March 1976
Highest position: #1 5 April 1976 (14 weeks)
Final entry: #93 13 December 1976
Weeks in chart: 40

Top 100 singles of 1976: #1


Dancing Queen / That’s Me

RCA SINGLE: 102814
Released: 11 August 1976
Discontinued: 1983 (?)

Kent Report chart entry: #38 16 August 1976
Highest position: #1 6 September 1976 (8 weeks)
Final entry: #73 31 January 1977
Weeks in chart: 25

Top 100 singles of 1976: #3

Note:

Released in three different picture sleeves:

  • With ABBA logo and ® registered trademark symbol (available on release date)
  • Without ABBA logo (available around release date)
  • With ABBA logo and no ® registered trademark single (available several weeks after release date)

Money, Money, Money / Crazy World

RCA SINGLE: 102835
Released: 25 October 1976
Discontinued: 1979

Kent Report chart entry: #53 1 November 1976
Highest position: #1 15 November (6 weeks)
Final entry: #82 28 February 1977
Weeks in chart: 34

Top 100 singles of 1976: #7


Knowing Me, Knowing You / Happy Hawaii (early version of “Why did it have to be me”)

RCA SINGLE: 102870
Released: 26 February 1977
Discontinued: 1 April 1981

Kent Report chart entry: #40 7 March 1977
Highest position: #9 28 March 1977 (2 weeks)
Final entry: #83 13 June 1977
Weeks in chart: 15

Top 100 singles of 1977: #88

Note:

Both sides listed on Kent Report singles chart


Hole In Your Soul / I Wonder (Departure) [live]

RCA SINGLE: 102997

Note:

Catalogue number assigned, but single cancelled before manufacture


The Name Of The Game / I Wonder (Departure) [live]

RCA SINGLE: 103006
Released: 24 October 1977
Discontinued: 1 April 1981

Kent Report chart entry: #62 7 November 1977
Highest position: #6 23 January 1978
Final entry: #89 3 April 1978
Weeks in chart: 19

Top 100 singles of 1978: #84

Note:

B-side recorded live in Sydney, March 1977


Take A Chance On Me / I’m A Marionette

RCA SINGLE: 103050
Released: 23 January 1978 (?)
Discontinued: 1983 (?)

Kent Report chart entry: #55 30 January 1978
Highest position: #12 13 March 1978
Final entry: #79 1 May 1978
Weeks in chart: 14


Eagle [3.36 edit] / Thank You For The Music

RCA SINGLE: 103130
Released: 17 May 1978 (?)
Discontinued: 1979

Kent Report chart entry: #97 5 June 1978
Highest position: #82 10 July 1978
Final entry: #82 10 July 1978
Weeks in chart: 6

Note:

Both sides listed on Kent Report singles chart


Summer Night City / Medley: Pick A Bale Of Cotton – On Top Of Old Smokey – Midnight Special

RCA SINGLE: 103202
Released: 9 October 1978 (?)
Discontinued: 1 April 1981

Kent Report chart entry: #56 16 October 1978
Highest position: #13 27 November 1978
Final entry: #73 22 January 1979
Weeks in chart: 15


Chiquitita / Lovelight

RCA SINGLE: 103297
Released: 12 February 1979 (?)
Discontinued: 1 April 1981

Kent Report chart entry: #94 19 February 1979
Highest position: #4 16 April 1979
Final entry: #99 25 June 1979
Weeks in chart: 19

Top 100 singles of 1979: #40


Does Your Mother Know / Kisses Of Fire

RCA SINGLE: 103350
Released: 28 May 1979 (?)
Discontinued: 1 April 1981

Kent Report chart entry: #83 4 June 1979
Highest position: #7 23 July 1979
Final entry: #73 17 September 1979
Weeks in chart: 16

Top 100 singles of 1979: #70


Chiquitita (Spanish Version) / Lovelight

RCA SINGLE: 103359
Released: 7 June 1979
Discontinued: 1979


Voulez-Vous / Angeleyes

RCA SINGLE: 103414
Released: 20 August 1979 (?)
Discontinued: 1 April 1981

Kent Report chart entry: #93 27 August 1979
Highest position: #79 3 September 1979
Final entry: #79 3 September 1979
Weeks in chart: 2

Kent Report chart re-entry: #98 17 September 1979
Highest position: #80 8 October 1979 (4 weeks)
Final entry: #87 5 November 1979
Weeks in chart: 8


“Waterloo” EP

Side 1:
Waterloo
Watch Out

Side 2:
Ring Ring
Rock ’n Roll Band

RCA EP: 20605
Released: October 1979

Reissue of 1974 EP


Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) / The King Has Lost His Crown

RCA SINGLE: 103452
Released: 5 November 1979 (?)
Discontinued: 1 April 1981

Kent Report chart entry: #80 12 November 1979
Highest position: #8 14 January 1980 (2 weeks)
Final entry: #74 10 March 1980
Weeks in chart: 18


I Have A Dream / Take A Chance On Me (Live Version)

RCA SINGLE: 103511
Released: 25 February 1980 (?)
Discontinued: 1 December 1980

Kent Report chart entry: #100 3 March 1980
Highest position: #64 24 March 1980
Final entry: #92 26 May 1980
Weeks in chart: 13


The Winner Takes It All / Elaine

RCA SINGLE: 103645
Released: 11 August 1980

Kent Report chart entry: #79 18 August 1980
Highest position: #7 20 October 1980
Final entry: #70 19 January 1981
Weeks in chart: 23

Top 100 singles of 1980: #56


On And On And On / The Piper

RCA SINGLE: 103719
Released: 8 December 1980

Kent Report chart entry: #60 15 December 1980
Highest position: #9 19 January 1981
Final entry: #54 2 March 1981
Weeks in chart: 14

Top 100 singles of 1981: #84


Super Trouper / Happy New Year

RCA SINGLE: 103747
Released: 23 February 1981
Discontinued: 1983 (?)

Kent Report chart entry: #92 30 March 1981
Highest position: #77 20 April 1981
Final entry: #91 27 April 1981
Weeks in chart: 5


One Of Us / Should I Laugh Or Cry

RCA SINGLE: 103930
Released: 4 January 1982

Kent Report chart entry: #72 11 January 1982
Highest position: #48 8 February 1982
Final entry: #98 5 April 1982
Weeks in chart: 13


Head Over Heels / The Visitors

RCA SINGLE: 103947
Released: New Zealand March 1982

Note:

Not released in Australia


When All Is Said And Done / Soldiers

RCA SINGLE: 103955
Released: 24 March 1982
Discontinued: 1983 (?)

Kent Report chart entry: #82 26 April 1982
Highest position: #81 3 May 1982
Final entry: #81 3 May 1982
Weeks in chart: 3

Note:

First batch of sleeves misprinted When All Is Said Is Done


The Day Before You Came / Cassandra

RCA SINGLE: 104057
Released: 8 November 1982 (?)
Discontinued: 1983 (?)

Kent Report chart entry: #93 15 November 1982
Highest position: #48 13 December 1982
Final entry: #80 10 January 1983
Weeks in chart: 9


Under Attack / You Owe Me One

RCA SINGLE: 104088
Released: January 1983

Kent Report chart entry: #98 14 February 1983
Highest position: #96 21 February 1983
Final entry: #96 21 February 1983
Weeks in chart: 2


Dancing Queen / The Day Before You Came

POLYDOR CD SINGLE: 863 734-2
CASSETTE SINGLE: 863 734-4
Released: September 1992

Kent Report chart entry: #53 26 October 1992
Highest position: #28 23 November 1992
Final entry: #93 21 December 1992
Weeks in chart: 9

CD single

Cassette single


Singles Collection 1972-1982

box set of 29 CD singles

POLYGRAM CD SINGLE BOX SET: 563 286-2 ^
Released: 6 April 1999

^ made in EU, imported through PolyGram


Singles Collection 1972-1982

box set of 27 CD singles

POLYGRAM CD SINGLE BOX SET: 561 252-2 ^
Released: February or 1 November 2000

^ made in EU, imported through PolyGram


The Singles

box set of 40 singles

POLAR/UNIVERSAL SINGLES BOX SET: 00602537649594 ^
Released: 5 May 2014

^ made in EU, imported through Universal Music


Mamma Mia

ARIA chart entry: #99 14 July 2008
Highest position: #58 21 July 2008
Final entry: #83 11 August 2008
Weeks in chart: 5

Note:

Charted due to digital download and streaming


Dancing Queen

ARIA chart entry: #58 21 July 2008
Highest position: #58 21 July 2008
Final entry: #97 18 August 2008
Weeks in chart: 5

Note:

Charted due to digital download and streaming


Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

ARIA chart entry: #64 21 July 2008
Highest position: #68 21 July 2008
Final entry: #79 11 August 2008
Weeks in chart: 4

Note:

Charted due to digital download and streaming


I Still Have Faith In You

POLAR/UNIVERSAL DIGITAL SINGLE:
Released 3 September 2021
CD SINGLE: 00602567899440 *^
Released: 19 October 2021
SINGLE: 00602567807513 *^
Released: 5 November 2021

* ABBA online store exclusive
^ made in EU, imported through Universal Music

ARIA chart entry: #39 13 September 2021
Highest position: #39 13 September 2021
Final entry: #39 13 September 2021
Weeks in chart: 1

iTunes highest position: #2 3 September 2021

CD single

Vinyl single


Don’t Shut Me Down

POLAR/UNIVERSAL DIGITAL SINGLE:
Released: 3 September 2021
CD SINGLE: 00602438745692 *^
Released: 19 October 2021

* ABBA online store exclusive
^ made in EU, imported through Universal Music

ARIA chart entry: #27 13 September 2021
Highest position: #27 13 September 2021
Final entry: #27 13 September 2021
Weeks in chart: 1

iTunes highest position: #1 3 September 2021

ARIA Top 100 singles of 2021: #96


Just A Notion

POLAR/UNIVERSAL DIGITAL SINGLE:
Released: 22 October 2021
CD SINGLE: 00602438921317 *^
Released: 5 November 2021

* ABBA online store exclusive
^ made in EU, imported through Universal Music


Little Things

POLAR/UNIVERSAL DIGITAL SINGLE:
Released: 3 December 2021
CD SINGLE: 00602438971268 *^
Released: 17 January 2022

* ABBA online store exclusive
^ made in EU, imported through Universal Music