This week in 1978

1 Take A Chance On Me Abba

2 Figaro Brotherhood Of Man

3 Come Back My Love Darts

4 Wishing On A Star Rose Royce

5 If I Had Words Scott Fitzgerald And Yvonne Keely

6 Mr. Blue Sky Electric Light Orchestra

7 Hot Legs/I Was Only Joking Rod Stewart

8 Sorry I’m A Lady Baccara

9 Just One More Night Yellow Dog

10 Love Is Like Oxygen The Sweet

‘Take A Chance On Me’, the second single from Abba’s fifth studio album (‘Abba: The Album’) was one of the Swedish foursome’s most successful hits. A chart-topper in Ireland, it was their seventh UK number one and their third consecutive No. 1 in the country after ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ and ‘The Name of the Game’. ‘Take A Chance On Me’ had replaced Brotherhood of Man’s ‘Figaro’ on top of the charts, a song accused of copying Abba’s ‘Fernando’ - even though the two tracks were stylistically very different. ‘Take A Chance...’ was Abba’s final UK number one of the seventies, helping them achieve the accolade of act with the most chart-topping hits in the decade.