Mama Mia! SingStar ABBA announced

Mike Bantick
Thursday, 11 September 2008 09:36

Your IT - Entertainment

“Dancing Queen” will not be enough.  Sony have announced that soon you can add “singing along with ABBA hits" to you party repertoire.  Look out neighbors, SingStar ABBA is on its way.

As a child my generation was battered by the harmonies of a quartet from Sweden.  Now as an adult, my organic audio receptors are about to be battered by unskilled folk belting out their favorite ABBA hits, all in the name of the party game SingStar.  Time to evolve some ear flaps me thinks.

Having said that, there are many fans of ABBA around the world,  evidenced by the popularity of the Mama Mia stage and film productions.  So you cannot really blame Sony and Universal too much for the following announcement:

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, ABBA and Universal Music Announce Collaboration on SingStar™

SingStar™ ABBA available in Australia this Christmas, exclusively on PlayStation®

SYDNEY, 11 September 2008 - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today announced a collaboration with ABBA to bring the bands best loved tracks to SingStar for both PlayStation®2 and PLAYSTATION®3. Owners of either system will now be able to sing along with some of the most iconic pop tracks of all time including ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’, ‘Waterloo’ and ‘Dancing Queen’.

SingStar ABBA is being developed in full collaboration with ABBA and Universal Music Group in Sweden, which manages the rights to the ABBA brand. The terms of the agreement include a window of exclusivity for disc-based PlayStation titles until December 2009.

ABBA’s recordings have sold an estimated 370 million units worldwide. Their 1992 album, “Gold,” is one of the most popular albums of all time, with sales of 26 million copies.The SingStar agreement comes as the music of ABBA enjoys a renewed surge of popularity worldwide, sparked by the huge success of the film, “Mamma Mia!”

Global sales of the soundtrack album, released by Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company, are now approaching 3 million.“We are thrilled to be collaborating with ABBA to bring their tracks to SingStar this Christmas,” said David Reeves, President, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.



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