ABBA confirms the release of two new songs in ‘September or October’

ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus has revealed that fans can expect a new song “in September or October” from the four-member Swedish pop group that broke up 37 years ago.

Ulvaeus told Denmark’s Ekstra Bladet newspaper that “it takes an extremely long time” to make the video with the avatars of the group members, adding “it has been delayed for too long”.

The band earlier said Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog reunited to plan a virtual tour featuring digital avatars, and that the two new songs are titled I Still Have Faith In You and Don’t Shut Me Down.

ABBA shot to fame by winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo, and had big hits in the 1970s including Dancing Queen before splitting up in 1982.

Fans rejoiced last April when the group announced that they had recorded two new songs for a “Virtual ABBA” experience.

The project first announced in 2016, and was scheduled to premiere, via digital versions of band members, at the end of last year.

At the time, Benny Andersson said in an interview on the fan site IceTheSite legal complications had delayed the release.