Released on 23 April 1979, the album yielded five hits, all of them big 1979 singles in Britain – "Chiquitita", "Does Your Mother Know", "I Have a Dream" and the double A-side "Voulez-Vous"/"Angeleyes".

The album has been digitally remastered and reissued four times: first in 1997, then in 2001 and in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set, and yet again in 2010 for the Voulez-Vous Deluxe Edition.

Sessions however proved to be difficult and after starting on 13 March 1978 with the ultimately unreleased track "Dr Claus von Hamlet", a number of compositions were demoed and rejected.

Indeed, after six months, only two songs that would end up on the finished album ("The King Has Lost His Crown" and "Lovers (Live a Little Longer)") were completed.

By September 1978, ABBA had been absent from the charts for some months, and so a song from the recording sessions, "Summer Night City", was released as a single.

By this time, tensions were growing within the group due to the low productivity of the period, as member Agnetha Faltskog commented; "I can tell from the look in Björn's eyes when he gets home how the day's work has been.

In late 1978, further indication of internal struggles became widely known when it was announced that married couple Ulvaeus and Faltskog were to divorce.

Rather than spelling the end for the group however, this freed up a lot of the tensions between the two and in late 1978, work suddenly took off apace for the album.

The second track however featured an all-out contemporary vibe, being quite disco-orientated and considered the strongest song that had been recorded for the album.

[2] At the end of January, Andersson and Ulvaeus left Sweden and rented an apartment in the Bahamas where they felt they could get some inspiration by listening to American music and experiencing a whole different vibe to the rather conservative Stockholm.

By the end of March, the final two tracks were finished; "As Good as New" and "I Have a Dream" (the latter featuring a local children's choir from the International School of Stockholm).

(A Man After Midnight)", was released as a single in October and was later included as a bonus track on CD versions of Voulez-Vous.

[4] It featured a remastered and expanded CD version of the album, with six bonus tracks, along with a companion DVD of TV content from 1978 and 1979.

Found on this second disc were: the BBC TV special ABBA in Switzerland; the "Chiquitita" performance from the Music for UNICEF Concert and another one from ABBA Snowtime; a performance of "If It Wasn't for the Nights" from the Mike Yarwood Christmas Show (1978); a Björn and Benny interview on the Multi-Coloured Swap Shop; an extended promo of "I Have a Dream"; two Greatest Hits Vol.

"[17] The Manchester Evening News determined that "Frida vocalises with increased assurance, now making words count much more—in fact the lyrics are slowly coming out of their sometimes naivete".

[14] Bruce Eder of AllMusic retrospectively noted that "about half of Voulez-Vous shows the heavy influence of the Bee Gees from their megahit disco era" but that it also "had a pair of soft, lyrical Europop-style ballads" which according to him sounds like "popular folk music during the mid-to-late '60s".

(A Man After Midnight)", respectively), along with the Spanish version of "Chiquitita", were not included on this reissue, but could be found on Gracias Por La Música and as bonus tracks on The Complete Studio Recordings.