MAMMA MIA The Movie Soundtrack Is the No 1 Album in America

NEW YORK, NY. (Decca Label Group)--MAMMA MIA! The Movie Soundtrack is the bona fide hit of the summer, reaching #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart and achieving platinum status after its impressive fifth week of release. The must-have CD is also #1 on the Billboard Soundtrack Chart for the fourth consecutive week, and was the top selling album on iTunes for three consecutive weeks. The disc has taken on a life of its own on the heels of the successful film -- its debut marked the highest charting week ever in history for an ABBA recording.

Further fuelling the MAMMA MIA! phenomenon is the Original Cast Album, which also recently rose to #1 on Billboard's Broadway Chart and remains there for the third week in a row, eight astounding years after its official release.

Chris Roberts, President, Classics and Jazz International/Chairman, Decca Label Group, commented, "Audiences of all ages are responding to the timelessness and the feel-good factor that is MAMMA MIA!. The music resonates with ABBA fans, as well as a young people who are just discovering these songs for the first time." At long last the music of ABBA finally sits at the top of the pop charts in America."

Mixed, mastered and produced by ABBA's musical geniuses Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the soundtrack is the ultimate souvenir from the hit film. Andersson and Ulvaeus reunited in Stockholm with the musicians who played on the original ABBA songs to record the disc in February 2007. It was the first time the musicians had played the songs together since ABBA toured more than 25 years ago. Along with producing the recording, Andersson also played keyboards. He commented, "We didn't have to think about it -- it was in the fingers."

Both MAMMA MIA! The Movie Soundtrack and Original Cast Album are available now on Decca and Decca Broadway respectively.