Wrap Your Arms Around Me

Wrap Your Arms Around Me
Studio album by Agnetha Fältskog
Released	31 May 1983
Recorded	January - March 1983 Polar Studios, Stockholm[1]
Genre	Pop
Length	46:16
Label	Polar (original release) Universal International (2001 reissue)
Producer	Mike Chapman
Agnetha Fältskog chronology
Nu tändas tusen juleljus (1981) Wrap Your Arms Around Me (1983) Eyes of a Woman (1985)

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People	Favorable[3]

Wrap Your Arms Around Me is the first English-language solo album^[4] by former ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog. Counting her previous solo albums recorded in the Swedish language, it was her seventh album overall. The album was released by Polar Music on 31 May 1983 and was produced by Mike Chapman. The first track from the album, "The Heat Is On", is commonly regarded as Fältskog's best-known 1980s solo hit, while "Can't Shake Loose" became the first of only two solo singles from Fältskog to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, peaking at number 29 in October 1983. The single "The Heat Is On", was a hit all over Europe and Scandinavia. It reached number one in Sweden and Norway and number two in the Netherlands and Belgium. In Europe, the single "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" was another successful hit, topping the charts in Belgium and Denmark, reaching the Top 5 in Sweden, the Netherlands and South Africa, and the Top 20 in Germany and France.The track "Man" was the only song on the album written by Fältskog herself in contrast to her pre-ABBA 1960s recordings in Swedish, which were mostly self-written. The album's strings were provided by the Sveriges Radio Symphony Orchestra.^[5]

The album was a hit in Europe, selling over 1,2 million copies globally.^[6]

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