BBC Radio 2 listeners have voted Dancing Queen as their favourite ABBA song, topping a chart of the band's greatest hits with tens of thousands of votes cast. The track secured the number one spot in the Your Ultimate ABBA Song poll, which marked 50 years since the Swedish group won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with Waterloo.
The Winner Takes It All took second place, followed by Thank You for the Music, Slipping Through My Fingers, and The Day Before You Came. The top 30 countdown, spanning ABBA's entire career from their Eurovision triumph to their 2021 album Voyage, was announced on Radio 2's Super Saturday on 11 May.
Presenter Gary Davies, who launched the vote on 5 April, said: 'Dancing Queen is one of those songs that just makes you happy every time you hear it and still gets any dancefloor full to this day.' Jeff Smith, Radio 2's Head of Music, added: 'Radio 2 listeners’ love of ABBA has not diminished since they burst onto the music scene in the 1970s.'
The list of 45 tracks was chosen by Radio 2's panel of ABBA superfans, including presenters Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Sara Cox. The top five includes songs that originally charted modestly, such as The Day Before You Came (peak No. 32) and Thank You for the Music (peak No. 33), which have grown in popularity over time.
