Biggest-selling Eurovision Song Contest act (group)

After winning the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in 1974 with “Waterloo”, Swedish supergroup ABBA have gone on to sell in excess of 166.3 million records worldwide – a figure that includes physical albums and singles, digital singles and streams (equivalent album sales). Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad released nine studio albums between 1973 (Ring Ring) and 2021 (Voyage), and their 1992 compilation Gold: Greatest Hits, an enduring presence on sales charts around the world to this day, had shifted 34 million copies as of August 2024.

ABBA’s biggest-selling singles include “Mamma Mia”, “Dancing Queen”, “The Winner Takes It All” and “Waterloo”, the song that kick-started their stellar career after scoring 24 points when the 19th Eurovision Song Contest came to the Brighton Dome, UK, on 6 April 1974.

Céline Dion, who won the ESC for Switzerland in 1988 with “Ne partez pas sans moi” (“Don’t Leave Without Me”), is Eurovision’s biggest-selling act overall with global record sales of more than 200.5 million. Madonna, with worldwide record sales in excess of 250.3 million, appeared at the 2019 ESC as an interval-act performer but has never represented a country in the final or semi-finals.