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Ring Ring is the debut studio album by the Swedish group ABBA, initially credited as Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida. It was released in Scandinavia on 26 March 1973, and later in a limited number of other territories, including West Germany, Australia, South Africa and Mexico, through Polar Music.[8] It was a chart-topping album in Belgium, and a big success in the Netherlands, Norway and South Africa.[9]

Ring Ring
Studio album by Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida
Released	26 March 1973
Recorded	29 March 1972–15 March 1973
Studio	Metronome, Europafilm and KMH Studio, Stockholm[1]
Genre	Europop[2] folk pop schlager
Length	35:43
Label	Polar
Producer	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus
Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida chronology
Ring Ring (1973) Waterloo (1974)
Singles from Ring Ring
"People Need Love" Released: 1 June 1972 "He Is Your Brother" Released: 22 November 1972 "Ring Ring" Released: 14 February 1973 "Another Town, Another Train" Released: March 1973 "I Am Just a Girl" Released: May 1973 (Japan only) "Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" Released: June 1973 "Rock'n Roll Band" Released: July 1973 "Nina, Pretty Ballerina" Released: 6 October 1973

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Blender	[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[5]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	4/10[7]

The album was re-released in Australasia in 1975, but was not released in the United Kingdom until 1992, and the United States until 1995.

Overview

When the first song "People Need Love" was recorded in the spring of 1972, the group was just one of many projects the four members were involved in. Only after the title track, "Ring Ring" became a hit, did the four decide to go on working together as a permanent group.[10] The original 1973 Polar version of the album opens with "Ring Ring (Bara du slog en signal)", the Swedish version of the track, and places the English-language version as track four on side two.

The track "She's My Kind of Girl", included on the international editions, was originally recorded by Björn & Benny in 1969 for the Swedish pornographic film Inga II: the Seduction of Inga. Released as a single in 1970, it became a hit in Japan,[11] and was released as the B-side of the English version of the "Ring Ring" single in Scandinavia. The track "Disillusion" was originally written in Swedish by Agnetha Fältskog for her solo album Elva kvinnor i ett hus. Although she had composed much of her Swedish solo output, "Disillusion" is the only song released on an ABBA studio album to feature a songwriting contribution from her.[12]

Ring Ring was first released on CD in Scandinavia in 1988 by Polar Music alongside Waterloo and ABBA's self titled album. It follows the same running order as the original Scandinavian LP, being the only CD of this album to do so.[13] Also in 1988, the international version was first released on CD in Australia by Rainbow Music Group.[14] In 1990, the international version of the album was released on CD throughout Europe by Polydor Records with the discs manufactured in West Germany. In the United States, Ring Ring would not be made available on CD - or indeed at all - until 1995 when it was released there by Polydor.[15] The album has been digitally remastered on CD multiple times: in 1997 as part of "The ABBA Remasters" series,[16] in 2001 with an updated cover artwork and some bonus tracks,[17] in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set, and most recently in 2013 as a "Deluxe Edition".[18]

Track listing

Notes

• All reissues above use the international edition track listing.

Personnel

• Agnetha Fältskog – vocals
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad – vocals
• Björn Ulvaeus – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Benny Andersson – piano, keyboards, mellotron, vocals

Additional musicians

• Ola Brunkert – drums
• Roger Palm – drums on "Me and Bobby and Bobby's brother" and "Rock 'n' roll band"
• Jan Bandel - drums on "He is your brother"
• Rutger Gunnarsson – bass
• Mike Watson – bass on "Disillusion", "People need love", "I saw it in the mirror" and "Love isn't easy"
• Stefan Brolund - bass on "He is your brother"
• Janne Schaffer – acoustic guitar on "Another town, another train", electric guitar
• Håkan Jansson - baritone saxophone on "He is your brother"

Production

• Benny Andersson; Björn Ulvaeus – producers, arrangers
• Michael B. Tretow – engineer
• Björn Almstedt; Lennart Karlsmyr; Rune Persson – assistant engineers
• Sven-Olof Walldoff – string arrangements on "I Am Just a Girl"[19]
• Lars Falck; Bengt H. Malmqvist – photography
• Peter Wiking – original album design
• Jon Astley; Tim Young; Michael B. Tretow – remastering for the 1997 remasters
• Jon Astley; Michael B. Tretow – remastering for the 2001 remasters
• Henrik Jonsson – remastering for The Complete Studio Recordings box set

Charts

Chart (1973–76)	Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[20]	10
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[21]	32
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[22]	10
Swedish Albums Chart[23]	2
Chart (2021)	Peak position
Greek Albums (IFPI Greece)[24]	57

Certifications and sales

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[25]	3× Platinum	150,000^
Norway	—	10,000[26]
Sweden	—	116,627[27]
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

External links

• Ring Ring at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[de] Ring Ring

Ring Ring ist das Debütalbum der schwedischen Pop-Gruppe ABBA aus dem Jahr 1973. Es erschien zunächst nur in den skandinavischen Ländern Schweden, Norwegen und Dänemark unter dem Bandnamen „Björn Benny & Agnetha Frida“. Später wurde es auch in Australien und anderen Ländern veröffentlicht. In Großbritannien wurde es erstmals 1992 auf CD veröffentlicht. Mit dem Titellied Ring Ring belegte die Gruppe im Februar 1973 beim Melodifestivalen, der schwedischen Vorentscheidung für den Eurovision Song Contest, den dritten Platz.

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- [en] Ring Ring (album)

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[es] Ring Ring (álbum de ABBA)

Ring Ring es el nombre del primer álbum de estudio lanzado por el grupo sueco ABBA, bajo el nombre de "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida". Fue publicado por Polar Music el 26 de marzo de 1973 en Escandinavia, y posteriormente en un número limitado de países. Cuando el álbum fue finalmente lanzado, marcó la culminación de un proceso que había empezado años atrás.

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[ru] Ring Ring

Ring Ring — дебютный студийный альбом шведской группы ABBA (тогда ещё Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida), выпущенный в 1973 году в Скандинавии, а также Германии, Австралии, Южной Африке и Мексике. Альбом был повторно переиздан в Австралии в 1975 году, в 1992 году в Англии, и в 1995 году в США.

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