Voulez-Vous (song)

"Voulez-Vous"
"Voulez-Vous"
Single by ABBA
from the album Voulez-Vous
B-side	"Angeleyes"
Released	2 July 1979
Recorded	13 March 1978 – 29 March 1979
Studio	Criteria (Miami, US); Polar (Stockholm, Sweden);
Genre	Disco
Length	5:11 (album version); 4:21 (single version); 6:09 (extended promo version);
Label	Polar; Atlantic (12-inch single);
Songwriter(s)	Benny Andersson; Björn Ulvaeus;
Producer(s)	Benny Andersson; Björn Ulvaeus;
ABBA singles chronology
Music video
	"Voulez-Vous" on YouTube
12-inch disco single

"Voulez-Vous" (pronounced [vule vu] voo-lay-voo; French for "Do you want?") is a 1979 song by the Swedish group ABBA, written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad shared the lead vocals. It is the second track on the group's 1979 album of the same name. In the UK and Ireland, "Voulez-Vous" was released as a double A-side, though nearly everywhere else, "Voulez-Vous" was a single A-side. The double A side single is, as of September 2021, ABBA's 13th-biggest song in the UK, including both pure sales and digital streams.^[3]

The song also features on the album Gold: Greatest Hits, first as a 4:21 edited version when the compilation was first released in 1992 and then in its full 5:09 version from 1999 onwards. "Angeleyes" is featured on the More Gold: More Hits compilation. "Voulez-Vous" was re-released as a single in 1992 to promote Gold: Greatest Hits. "Voulez-Vous" is also the only ABBA song to have been officially released as an extended dance remix – albeit only as a promo. The 6:07 version of the track, released as a double A-side 12-inch single by Atlantic Records in the United States in 1979, was included as a bonus track on the 2001 compilation The Definitive Collection.

A songwriting trip to the Bahamas saw the birth of this melody, and the proximity to Miami made it convenient to record the backing track at Criteria Studios with members of the disco group Foxy. "Voulez-Vous" is the only ABBA song (other than live recordings) to be recorded outside of Sweden.

^ Mason, Stewart. "Voulez-Vous – Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
^ Tobler, John (2011). Abba – Uncensored on the Record. Coda Books Ltd. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-90853-823-9.
^ Copsey, Rob (2 September 2021). "ABBA's Official Top 20 biggest songs". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 September 2021.

[1] Mason, Stewart. "Voulez-Vous – Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 July 2013.

[2] Tobler, John (2011). Abba – Uncensored on the Record. Coda Books Ltd. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-90853-823-9.

[3] Copsey, Rob (2 September 2021). "ABBA's Official Top 20 biggest songs". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 September 2021.

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