s at the ABBA The Museum • 1974 – won the
Eurovision Song Contest on April 6 for Sweden for the song "Waterloo", a song that was written expressly for the contest • 1975 – won West German music prize
Deutscher Schallplattenpreis for SOS single in a category Best Song of the Year • 1978 – won
Dutch music prize
Edison Award (Dutch equivalent of
Grammy Award) for
The Album LP . • 1979 – received
Svenska grammofonpriset for
Voulez Vous LP. The award was given by
Royal Swedish Academy of Music and magazine
Musikrevyn as the "Best Album Recorded and Produced in Sweden". • 1981 – received
Svenska grammofonpriset for
Super Trouper LP. The award was given by
Royal Swedish Academy of Music and magazine
Musikrevyn as the "Best Album Recorded and Produced in Sweden". • 1982 – received a Golden Gramophone Award from the then German recording company
Deutsche Grammophon "in recognition of the outstanding contribution made by ABBA to popular music worldwide". Until then, only classical musicians received the award. • 1982 – received a Swedish culture prize (Expressens Kulturpris)
Spelmannen established by the evening newspaper
Expressen and selected by the jury of members of
Swedish Academy and
Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Until 1999, ABBA remained the only
pop/
rock musicians who ever received this award. • 1992 – received an Honorary
Grammis Award. • 1993 – won a
World Music Award as the Best-Selling Swedish Artists of the Year for
ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits. • 2000 – won the
Rockbjörnen Swedish Artist of the Century Award. • 2002 – inducted into United States
Vocal Group Hall of Fame • 2001 – Ulvaeus and Andersson received a Special International
Ivor Novello Award. They also twice received the Music Export Prize from the Swedish Government and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association (SMFF). • 2002 – Andersson is given an honorary professorship by the Swedish Government for his "ability to create high-class music reaching people around the world". • 2002 – received a Japan Gold Disc Award from the
Recording Industry Association of Japan in the category Best International Pop Album of the Year for the SOS - Best of ABBA hit collection. • 2004 – Ulvaeus, Andersson and Lyngstad arrived in London for the 30th anniversary of their
Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974, appearing on stage after the fifth anniversary performance of
Mamma Mia!. While on stage, they were presented an award from
Universal Music and
Polar Music for achieving record sales of 360 million sales worldwide between 1974 and 2004. • 2005 – during the celebratory show for the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest,
Congratulations, held in
Copenhagen,
Denmark, "Waterloo" was voted the best Eurovision song in the history of the contest. Despite pre-show rumours to the contrary, no band member was present to accept the accolade. • 2005 – the
DVD version of the 1980
TV special ABBA in Concert is nominated for a
Grammis. • 2006 –
ABBA: The Movie won a
Grammis as the Best Music DVD. • 2009 – Faltskog and Lyngstad at the ceremony in Stockholm's Cirkus receive on behalf of ABBA the
Rockbjornen's Lifetime Achievement Award • 2010 – On January 27, at the London premiere of the "AbbaWorld" exhibition, ABBA was presented with an award recognizing total sales of 375,000,000 by Universal Music chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge. • 2010 – ABBA was inducted into the United States
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lyngstad and Andersson attended the award ceremony on March 15 in New York. • ABBA have two postage stamps of their own, issued by the Swedish Postal Service (
Posten AB) in 1983 and 2000. • 2015 – Dancing Queen was inducted into the United States Grammy Hall of Fame • 2022 – ABBA was awarded the 2021 Swedish Government's Music Export Prize after the success of the 'Voyage' album and to celebrate 50 years since the group's formation. • 2023 – On May 4 ABBA was one of the first artists to receive the BRIT Billion Award which celebrates those who have surpassed the milestone of one billion UK streams in their career. • 2024 – On March 21 all four members of ABBA were appointed
Commander, First Class, of the Royal Order of Vasa by His Majesty King
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. This was the first time for almost 50 years that the Swedish Royal Orders of Knighthood was bestowed on Swedes, coincidently also 50 years after winning the Eurovision Song Contest. ABBA shared the honour with nine other recipients. ==References==