作品1980
"Super Trouper" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, recorded for their seventh studio album of the same name, Super Trouper (1980). It was the last song recorded for the album, and was written and produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Anni-Frid Lyngstad sang lead vocals. It was released on 3 November 1980 as the second single from the record via Polar Music. The song's name refers to the Super Trouper, a type of spotlight used in large venues.
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从此条目开始调查"Super Trouper" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, recorded for their seventh studio album of the same name, Super Trouper (1980). It was the last song recorded for the album, and was written and produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Anni-Frid Lyngstad sang lead vocals. It was released on 3 November 1980 as the second single from the record via Polar Music. The song's name refers to the Super Trouper, a type of spotlight used in large venues.
"Super Trouper" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, recorded for their seventh studio album of the same name, Super Trouper (1980). It was the last song recorded for the album, and was written and produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Anni-Frid Lyngstad sang lead vocals. It was released on 3 November 1980 as the second single from the record via Polar Music. The song's name refers to the Super Trouper, a type of spotlight used in large venues.
"Super Trouper" would go on to become one of the group's best selling singles, and a smash hit across Europe. In the United Kingdom, it was ABBA's ninth and final number one hit on the UK singles chart, and was the fourth best-selling single in the UK that year, selling over 700,000 copies. The single also reached the top spot in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and West Germany. It proved less successful, however, in Australia and North America, only reaching the top forty in Canada.
Lasse Hallström directed the music video, which features the group in the middle of a circus troupe and performing in a room with lights. It is featured on ABBA Gold (1992), and is also included in both the Mamma Mia! musical and Mamma Mia! film.
The song – with lead vocals by Anni-Frid Lyngstad – had the working title "Blinka Lilla Stjärna" (i.e. Twinkle Little Star, in Swedish), and was the last track to be written and recorded for the album (ultimately replacing the track "Put on Your White Sombrero").
The group had already decided on the album title Super Trouper when they realised that they needed another track for the album. Written in October 1980, the song fitted to become the title track and also a single.
The first verse contains the line, "I was sick and tired of everything when I called you last night from Glasgow", with the video showing lead vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad singing this line. In February 2020, saxophonist Ulf Andersson, who toured with ABBA in the late 1970s, revealed that name-checking Glasgow was a coded love note from Björn Ulvaeus to then-wife Agnetha Faltskog. "It was a personal thing between Bjorn and Agnetha," he told the Scottish Mail on Sunday. "Björn was in Glasgow for some ABBA promotion. It was around the time they were about to separate. He wrote the lyrics and Agnetha sings it, but really it was meant to be from him."
However, in 2014 lyricist Björn Ulvaeus wrote about the creation of the song for The Singles box set, hinting it was inspired by his then-fiancé Lena Källersjö: "weaving a story around that title was no problem for a man, who had fallen in love again."
Mark Cooper for Record Mirror disparagingly described "Super Trouper" as "pre-adolescent music for toy tin soldiers with white teeth to kiss to." Beverly Hillier, in Smash Hits's review for the album, named "Super Trouper" as one of the two best songs, but that it's "nothing in the league of some of their earlier classics." Record World said that the song "deals with onstage loneliness" and that "engaging vocal interaction bounces resoundingly."
"Super Trouper" continued ABBA's run of chart success, particularly in Europe.
In the United Kingdom, "Super Trouper" debuted at number 13 on the UK singles chart the week of 15 November 1980, and reached the top spot two weeks later. It stayed at the number one spot for three consecutive weeks, becoming ABBA's ninth and final number one hit in the United Kingdom. This distinction placed ABBA fourth for the most UK chart-toppers in history (behind The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard); a position the group would keep for almost 20 years until Madonna scored her tenth UK No. 1 with "Music" in August 2000. "Super Trouper" was the overall fourth best selling single of 1980 in the United Kingdom, selling 709,000 copies alone. In addition to those physical sales, the single’s digital sales and streaming equivalent has achieved 600,000 units certified by the British Phonographic Industry (Platinum). Combined, total United Kingdom sales therefore exceed 1.3 million units.
Across Europe, "Super Trouper" became a major success. In Belgium, the song debuted at number 23 on the Ultratop 50 chart on 15 November 1980, and topped the chart four weeks later, becoming ABBA's seventh consecutive number one hit and overall thirteenth in the country. In the Netherlands, the track debuted at number 29 on the Single Top 100 chart on 22 November 1980, and reached the top spot the following week, making it their eighth number one single. In West Germany, "Super Trouper" spent five non-consecutive weeks atop the GfK singles chart, becoming their eighth number one single. The single also reached atop the Irish Singles Chart, Norwegian Singles Chart, Spanish Singles Chart, and the Europarade chart.
"Super Trouper" also achieved top ten status in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France (where it became the group's tenth and final top ten hit, peaking at number four on the French Singles Chart), and Switzerland. In the group's native Sweden however, the single failed to crack the top ten, stalling at number 11 on the Sverigetopplistan. It also charted in Italy at number 17.
Outside of Europe, "Super Trouper" was a more modest hit. In the United States, the song debuted at number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of 4 April 1981. It failed to become a substantial hit, peaking at number 45. It performed even worse on sister charts from Cash Box and Record World, peaking at numbers 64 and 68. It did become a sizeable A/C hit, charting at number 14 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Its biggest success came on the dance chart, when it peaked atop the Billboard Dance Club Songs in May 1981, alongside "Lay All Your Love on Me" and "On and On and On". In Canada, "Super Trouper" proved slightly more successful, peaking at number 32 on the RPM Top 100 Singles chart. It proved most successful in Mexico, where it peaked at number three on the foreign-language chart. "Super Trouper" also charted at number 14 in Brazil.
In Australia, "Super Trouper" was released as the third single in March 1981, uniquely issued with "Happy New Year" as its B-side. It was not a chart success, peaking at number 77 on the Kent Music Re
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