Take a Chance On Me

Take a Chance On Me is the tile of a song recorded by ABBA, released initially as a single in January 1977 and successively included on ABBA The Album. It remains one of the group's best-known songs.

Single release
Released in January 1978 as the follow-up to The Name of the Game, Take a Chance On Me became the group's third consecutive and seventh overall UK no.1. It took three weeks to get to the top, eventually replacing Brotherhood of Man's Figaro, which ironically had been compared to ABBA's Fernando. Take a Chance.. remained at the top for three weeks, replaced by Kate Bush's debut Wuthering Heights. It was also ABBA's final no.1 in the UK of the 1970s, and gave the group the distinction of being the act with the most chart-topping singles of the 1970s in the UK. It was the ninth biggest selling single of 1978.

The single also reached no.3 in the US.

Tracklistings
original 7", EPIC S EPC 5950

A. Take a Chance On Me (4:05)

B. I Wonder (Departure) (3:54)

B side

 * The B side also appears on The Album. Both labels state Taken from ABBA - THE ALBUM.

Cover versions

 * Take a Chance On Me was taken to the no.1 spot in the UK a second time by synth-pop group Erasure when it was included on their ABBA-esque EP released in June 1992. the duo also made a promo video for the song which imitated the original, with the two members also dressed as Agnetha and Frida of ABBA.


 * The song also features in the musical Mamma Mia! and in the 2008 film version is sung by stars Julie Walters, Stellan Skarsgård, Colin Firth, Philip Michael & Christine Baranski.