The recording sold 709,000 copies in United Kingdom in 1980 alone. [10] As of September 2021, it is the group's second biggest song in the country with 1.05 million chart sales, made up of 978,000 pure sales and 38 million streams. [11] The song is performed in the Mamma Mia! stage musical, as well as the 2008 film adaptation. In the musical and film, Donna, Tanya and Rosie perform the song at Sophie's hen party dressed in the tight lycra suits they used to wear when they were a girl band called "Donna and the Dynamos". In the context of the musical, it explains that even though Donna has a hard life sometimes, all she has to know to feel better is that Sophie is there. When Niklas Strömstedt wrote lyrics for the Swedish staging of the musical, " Glasgow" was replaced by " Gränna" as the place from which the singer calls in the lyrics. British single certifications – ABBA – Super Trouper". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 27 October 2023. Completing Super Trouper’s break-up triptych is seasonal standard Happy New Year. Originally planned as the first single from the album, and also at one point a starting point for Benny and Björn’s plans for a musical, the song uses New Year’s Eve as a metaphor for the happy part of a relationship, while the gloomy comedown of New Year’s Day when the fun is over and the uneasiness and uncertainty of what lies ahead proves daunting.

The band had never enjoyed touring, and now separation from loved ones while on tour was an issue for Björn, who missed his new partner, something he had never experienced with Agnetha as they were never apart. The song shot to No. 1 around the world when it was released as the second single in November 1980. Chart File – Top 100 Albums 1980" (PDF). Record Mirror. 4 April 1981. p.38. ISSN 0144-5804– via World Radio History. Led by the international hit "The Winner Takes It All", Super Trouper was the group's sixth chart-topping album in the UK. It was also the best-selling album in Britain for 1980. Super Trouper was first released on CD in 1983 by Polar Music International, in the early 1980s by Polydor, and in the late 1980s by Atlantic Records for the US. The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form four times; first in 1997, then in 2001, again in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set and as a Deluxe Edition (containing a bonus DVD) in 2011. Somewhere in the Crowd There's You – On Location with ABBA" (Featurette: Making of Super Trouper Album Sleeve)Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (in Spanish) (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.

Scoring High" (PDF). Billboard. 9 May 1981. p.ANZ-23 . Retrieved 5 December 2021– via World Radio History.a b Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970-2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9. Album– Jahrescharts: 1981". charts.de. Media Control Charts. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015 . Retrieved 5 May 2010. Myers, Justin (7 November 2021). "ABBA's Official Top 20 biggest songs". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 10 November 2021.

Year by year, the best-selling albums of the past 50 years | NME". NME. 15 November 2011 . Retrieved 31 December 2019. One of their most fully formed collections of songs – and a unanimous band favourite – Super Trouper saw ABBA put aside their differences to fine effect… By Mark Lindores

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Christopher Thelen, from The Daily Vault gave the album an A- and wrote that "whatever was happening to the band, internally or externally, they were able to take it and put the best creative spin on it. The result was possibly their best album". [6]