HONEY, HONEY

''This article is about the ABBA song. For the Japanese manga and anime series by Eiko Mizuno, see Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken.''
"'Honey Honey'" is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA and included on their ''Waterloo'' album. It was the second single to be released from the album after the success of the title track winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.

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The song

Chart Success

Comprehensive charts

The song

"Honey Honey" was written by Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Stig Anderson, with vocals by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. As well as the English version, ABBA also recorded "Honey Honey" in Swedish, the last official recording by the group in their own language, and was released as the B-side of the Swedish "Waterloo" single. In its English format, "Honey Honey" was released with "King Kong Song" as the B-side.

Chart Success

"Honey Honey" was released in several European countries, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, but not in the UK. ABBA's British record label, Epic Records, decided to release a remixed version of "Ring Ring", but this single only reached No.32, so instead, a cover version of "Honey Honey" was recorded by the act Sweet Dreams, promptly hitting the UK Top 10.
"Honey Honey" reached the Top Five in West Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the United States, "Honey Honey" was moderately successful compared to the group's later singles. It reached No.27 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts; the first ABBA single to reach the AC chart. Interestingly, ABBA's original "Honey Honey" had to compete with Sweet Dreams' cover version in the US market; although the Sweet Dreams single only reached No.68, it may have somewhat hindered the performance of ABBA's version on the American charts.

Comprehensive charts

Chart (1974)	Position
Germany Singles Chart	2
Austrian Singles Chart	4
Swiss Singles Chart	4
Finnish Singles Chart	11
Belgian Singles Chart	12
Dutch Singles Chart	16
New Zealand Singles Chart	16
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	27
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	27
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Singles	37
Australian ARIA Singles chart	30