New ABBA Album Tops 80K Pre-Orders, Breaks Universal British isles File
ABBA in motion-seize machines. Picture Credit history: Baillie Walsh
ABBA enthusiasts are fired up about the new album Voyage. Pre-orders in the Uk by yourself topped 80,000, breaking a Universal Songs British isles pre-buy document.
The album launch is remaining accompanied by a specific Voyage tour in London. Tickets went on sale for the ABBA Voyage electronic occasion these days. Digital variations of the singers (not holograms) will perform along with a 10-piece are living band at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The displays start off Could 27, 2022, and ABBA lovers rushed to reserve their tickets.
The electronic ABBAtars of Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus will carry out alongside the band. The group’s electronic counterparts were being made with the aid of Industrial Gentle and Magic – the specific results organization launched by George Lucas.
Operate on the live performance sequence concerned months of motion capture with the group and a team of far more than 850 persons. More than 160 cameras were applied to movie the band’s general performance. ILM utilised archive footage of the band to produce the real looking digital efficiency.
ABBA bandmates carried out just about every one song in the demonstrate more than five months so ILM could capture each individual mannerism.
Innovative Director Ben Morris suggests his company has recreated ABBA in its key, from 1979. “We are creating them as electronic figures, then use overall performance seize procedures to animate them and make them seem correctly authentic,” Morris states.
Klaxons’ James Righton and Tiny Boots will each show up as section of the are living band. The reunion will be the to start with in 4 many years with “I Nevertheless Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down” celebrating the announcement.
The new ABBA album Voyage will contain ten new tracks, with at least one Xmas song. Will the team dethrone Mariah Carey’s Xmas tradition of taking the major of the Christmas charts? I guess we’ll see later this 12 months.
ABBA – Voyage Tracklist
- I Even now Have Religion In You
- When You Danced With Me
- Minor Items
- Really do not Shut Me Down
- Just A Notion
- I Can Be That Girl
- Keep An Eye On Dan
- Bumblebee
- No Doubt About It
- Ode To Liberty
ABBA is poised to arrive at a full new era of new followers, particularly on TikTok. The group not too long ago joined the shorter-variety movie web page and the #ABBA hashtag has created 1 billion sights so far. That is devoid of the catalogue formally accessible for use on the platform, way too.