Disappointment for ABBA fans: the Swedish disco group will not be performing again in 2024 on the Eurovision stage, which will take place in their country, fifty years after their victory in the famous competition.
" I do not want it. And if I don't want it, the others won't. It's the same for all four. If one says 'no', then it's no,” Benny Andersson said Thursday, May 25, in an interview with Newsnight magazine which will be broadcast on the evening on the BBC. There is "no chance" that ABBA will sing in 2024 or even make an appearance on stage, he says in excerpts from this interview published upstream by the British channel.
"We can celebrate 50 years of ABBA without being on stage", abounds his sidekick Bjorn Ulvaeus, putting an end to speculation since the victory at Eurovision of the Swedish singer Loreen, on May 13, with the title Tattoo.
A hologram show in London
As required by the rules of the contest, the winning country organizes the next edition, and Loreen's victory, widely celebrated in Sweden, raised hopes of seeing the legendary group with hundreds of millions of albums sold in the world world, on the occasion of the next edition, which will be held just fifty years after their victory with the hit Waterloo.
After nearly four decades of silence and de facto separation, ABBA had released a new album (Voyage) at the end of 2021 and, since 2022, fans of their global hits, such as Mamma Mia, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man after Midnight) or Dancing Queen, can attend a performance by the quartet in London represented by digital avatars broadcast as a hologram.
Building on its success, the show has been extended and plans are being considered to export it elsewhere in the world. And it's definitely the closest thing to an ABBA concert today.
