Waterloo (Swedish version)

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"Waterloo"
"Waterloo" cover
Single by ABBA
from the album Waterloo
Released March 4, 1974
Format 7" single
Genre Europop, Pop
Length 2:42
Label Polar Music
Writer(s) Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus
Producer(s) Michael Tretow
Chart positions
ABBA singles chronology
"Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)"
(1973)
"Waterloo (Swedish version)"
(1974)
"Waterloo (English version)"
(1974)

"Waterloo" is widely known as an English recording by supergroup ABBA but when the group won the pre-selections for the Eurovision Song Contest they sang it in Swedish. The day they won the ESC, the studio recording of this song was released as a single in Sweden.

[edit] The song

For more information, see "Waterloo".

[edit] Chart success

The song reached number two in the Swedish charts, one position better than the English version. The album made number one.