List of ABBA awards and recognition

This is a list of ABBA's awards and recognition.

* In 1978 "The Album" ABBA were honored with the Dutch music prize Edison Award (equivalent of Grammy Award).
* In 1980 ABBA received a "Georgie Award" from the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) as "The Best Vocal Group of the Year".
* In 1980 "Super Trouper" was recognized by Royal Swedish Academy of Music and magazine "Musikrevyn" as the "Best Album Recorded and Produced in Sweden".
* In 1982 ABBA received a Golden Gramophone Award from Germany's recording company Deutsche Grammophon "in recognition of the outstanding contribution made by ABBA to popular music worldwide". Usually, the award was bestowed upon only classical musicians.
* In 1982 ABBA were honoured at home by the prestigious music prize Spelmannen awarded by the jury that included members of Swedish Academy and Royal Swedish Academy of Music. To this day ABBA remain the only pop/rock musicians who ever received this award.
* In 1992 ABBA received an Honorary Grammis Award.
* In 1993 "" brought ABBA a World Music Award as the Best Selling Scandinavian Artist of the Year.
* In 2000 ABBA won the Rockbjörnen Swedish Artist of the Century Award.
* ABBA was inducted into Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002. [ [http://www.vocalgroup.org/inductees/abba.html "ABBA (Inducted 2002)"] , The Vocal Group Hall of Fame Foundation website.]
* ABBA have two postage stamps honoring their achievements to Swedish music industry. The Swedish Postal Service released these in 1983 and 2000.
* Ulvaeus and Andersson were recognised in 2001 with a Special International Ivor Novello Award. They also received the Music Export Prize from the Swedish Government and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association (SMFF).
* "Mamma Mia!" was nominated for a Broadway Tony Award as Best Musical in 2002.
* In 2002, Andersson has been given an honorary professorship by the Swedish Government for his "ability to create high-class music reaching people around the world".
* In 2003 ABBA were nominated into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but failed to get inducted.
* On April 6 2004 three former ABBA members (Ulvaeus, Andersson and Lyngstad) showed up together 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.
* On October 22 2005, during the celebration show for the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest, "Congratulations", held in Copenhagen, Denmark, "Waterloo" was [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4366574.stm voted the best] Eurovision song in the history of the contest, beating off stiff competition from the likes of Celine Dion, Helena Paparizou, Cliff Richard and Johnny Logan. Despite pre-show rumours to the contrary, no band member was present to accept the accolade.
* In 2005 the DVD version of the 1980 TV special "ABBA in Concert" was nominated for a Grammis.
* In 2006 "" won a Grammis as the Best Music DVD. [ [http://www.abbasite.com/news/index.php?id=1528&nolimit=asdf ABBA website] ]
* In 2009 ABBA the Museum will be opened in Stockholm Sweden, featuring original outfits and instruments used by the group, handwritten song lyrics, a display of different awards. The museum will also feature a studio where visitors can record their own ABBA songs.
* Fältskog and Lyngstad are joint #70 on VH1's Greatest Women of Rock and Roll.

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