The song "Happy New Year" is included in the album "Super trouper", released in 1980. In the first draft, "Happy New Year" has a long, more festive and humorous name: "Daddy don't get drunk on Christmas day".
When it was released, the song was also only released in a Spanish version called "Felicidad". According to CNN, "Happy New Year" only really has its current name and is widely known after 19 years of birth.
That was also the time when this song was released as a single and ABBA worked hard to make their own music MV "Happy New Year" that we have been familiar with so far.
It was not until 1999 that "Happy New Year" really caused a music fever around the world. The song was in the top of the charts in Argentina (5th), Sweden (27)), the Netherlands (15th),... that year and the number of listeners increased dramatically every New Year's Eve, according to Eurovisionary.
The two male singers of ABBA who also wrote the lyrics and music for this song, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, had no intention of creating "Happy New Year" from the beginning.
At that time, both of them really wanted to write a musical with a theme of New Year's Eve, but in the end they couldn't do it.
That was also the period when the marriage between Bjorn and the group's lead singer - Agnetha ended after both announced their divorce, while the couple Benny and Frida also showed signs of cracks and divorce after the song was released 1 year ago.
Fans have been dreaming of ABBA's handsome couple, more surprisingly, when they were at the peak of glory, they suddenly plunged into a desolate abyss.
"Happy New Year" is not filled with joy, love and hope like many other New Year songs. "Happy New Year" is a bit optimistic, carrying a typical sadness when time passes quickly, the old year ends and a new year arrives.
"Happy New Year" has also been covered by many artists around the world, but perhaps the most famous version is by A-Teens. The group released a cover single in 2000 on the occasion of the new year anniversary of Y2K.
The final line in the third part in the end of eighty-nine (late 89) was changed by A-Teens to in the end of Ninety-nine (late 99). A-Teens is a Swedish youth music group formed in 1998, emerging as a group specializing in covering ABBA's music. A-Teens cover songs often keep the original melody, only changing the arrangement to be younger, more modern and more complete.
For many Asian countries, including Vietnam, "Happy New Year" is a song that has become extremely familiar, being listened to many times every New Year's holiday.
However, in many places in the world, in many English-speaking countries, "Happy New Year" is not a "favorite" song for their new year.
The number one position has long belonged to "Auld Lang Syne". This song originates from a traditional folk song, recorded and composed by Scottic author, famous composer Robert Burn in 1788.
Compared to "age", it is clear that "Auld Lang Syne" has a long history of survival with a much longer history of music than "Happy New Year". The most prominent of the covers of "Auld Lang Syne" is the performance of singer Mariah Carey.
