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{{Infobox song

| name = More Stars

| cover = Stars On 45 - More Stars.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Original Dutch 7" single sleeve

| type = single

| artist = Stars on 45

| album = Longplay Album – Volume II

| B-side = {{unbulleted list|"45 Stars Get Ready" (NL, US and UK)

"Instrumental" (Star Wars and Other Hits; Canada-only)}}

| released = {{Start date|1981|7}}

| recorded = 1981

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = {{hlist|Disco|pop}}

| length = {{unbulleted list|

{{Duration|m=4|s=48}} (7" version)|

{{Duration|m=11|s=58}} (12" version)}}

| label = {{hlist|CNR Records (NL)|Radio/Atlantic Records (US)|CBS Records (UK)|Carrere (France)|Mercury Records (Argentina, Mexico, Philippines, NZ and AU)}}

| writer = {{hlist|Benny Andersson|Björn Ulvaeus|Stig Anderson}}

| producer = Jaap Eggermont

| prev_title = Stars on 45

| prev_year = 1981

| next_title = Volume III

| next_year = 1981

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|NqMM4X5iijE|"More Stars Side 1" (7" version)}}|header=Audios|type=single}}

{{External music video|{{YouTube|0v23v1Ahucg|"More Stars (ABBA Medley)" (original single version)}}|header=no|type=single}}

{{External music video|{{YouTube|wlT07Q3MkUI|"Volume Two" (12" version)}}|header=no|type=single}}

}}

"More Stars" (also known as "More Stars on 45" in the US, "Stars on 45 Vol. 2" in the UK and "More Stars on 45 II" in Canada) is a song medley released in July 1981 by the Dutch soundalike studio group Stars on 45 (credited to 'Stars On' in the US and Canada and 'Starsound' in the UK). It was the follow-up to the US and Dutch #1 and UK #2 single "Stars on 45" (released under its full 41-word title, but generally simply known as "Stars on 45 Medley"). "More Stars" was later included on the group's second album Longplay Album – Volume II (US title: Stars on Long Play II; UK title: Stars on 45 — The Album — Volume 2).

The "More Stars" medley featured eight hits by Swedish group ABBA, seven of which already had been UK Top 10 hits: "Voulez-Vous" (#3, 1979) "S.O.S." (#6, 1975), "Money, Money, Money" (#3, 1976), "Fernando" (#1, 1976), "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (#1, 1977), "The Winner Takes It All" (#1, 1980) and "Super Trouper" (#1, 1980). The eighth title chosen for the medley was somewhat surprisingly "Bang-A-Boomerang", one of ABBA's lesser known tracks and indeed only released as a single in one country: France. The eight minute plus album version of the ABBA medley which was released on CD on the 2011 30th Anniversary best of edition 30 Years Anniversary of Stars on 45 added another seven titles; "Dum Dum Diddle", "Lay All Your Love on Me", "On and On and On", "Super Trouper" (reprise), "Summer Night City", "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" and "Stars on 45 (2)" (reprise).

The near eleven-minute 12" mix of "Volume Two" started with another, notably different medley, mainly featuring American 60s and 70s hits from the soul, R&B and folk rock genres by among others The Temptations, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Four Tops, The Supremes, The Mamas & the Papas, Neil Diamond and Simon & Garfunkel. This medley was later also included on the Longplay Album – Volume II in slightly re-edited form preceding "Supremes Medley" on that album.

"More Stars" became Stars on 45/Starsound's second single to peak at #2 on the UK charts and indeed a Top 10 single in most parts of Europe. In the US, where ABBA's popularity wasn't on the same scale as in Europe, Radio Records instead chose an edit of the first part of the 12" mix, starting with "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" as a 7" single, and released it as the follow-up to the second Beatles medley "Stars on 45 Medley 2", but under the same title: "More Stars" (#55, Billboard's Hot 100).

Formats and track listings

  • Dutch & UK 7" single

;Side one

"More Stars" (UK title: "Stars on 45 Vol. 2") (7" version) - 4:48

All tracks written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus unless otherwise noted

;Side two

"'45 Stars Get Ready" (7" version) (Eggermont, Duiser) - 3:12

  • US 7" single

;Side one

"More Stars on 45" (7" version) - 4:40

;Side two

"'45 Stars Get Ready" (12" version) (Eggermont, Duiser) - 4:02

  • Canadian 7" single

;Side one

"More Stars on 45 II" (aka "ABBA Medley") (7" version) - 4:48

All tracks written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus unless otherwise noted

;Side two

"Instrumental" (aka "Introductions") (7" version) - 4:00

;Side one

"Volume Two" (US title: "Stars on 45 Volume II"; UK title: "Stars on 45 Vol. 2") (12" version) - 11:58

;Side two

"'45 Stars Get Ready" (12" version) (Eggermont, Duiser) - 4:04

  • Digital download{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/ph/album/more-stars-original-single-edit-single/1180968027|title=More Stars (Original Single Edit) - Single - Album by Stars On 45|publisher=Apple Inc.|website=Apple Music|date=29 November 2016|access-date=13 February 2025}}

1. "More Stars (ABBA Medley)" (original single version) - 3:53

All tracks written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus unless otherwise noted

2. "'45 Stars Get Ready" (12" version) (Eggermont, Duiser) - 4:02

Charts

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=Weekly charts=

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!Chart (1981)

!Peak
position

scope="row"|Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St. Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|edition=Illustrated|page=|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.

|26

{{single chart|Austria|4|artist=Stars On 45|song=Stars On 45 Vol. 2|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Flanders|3|artist=Stars On 45|song=Stars On 45 Vol. 2|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Canadatopsingles|36|chartid=0415|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Canadaadultcontemporary|12|chartid=0421|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"|Denmark (IFPI){{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1981/BB-1981-08-29.pdf|title=Hits of the World|magazine=Billboard|page=69|date=29 August 1981|access-date=24 June 2023}}

|2

scope="row"|Finland (Suomen virallinen lista){{Cite web|last=Timo|date=13 August 2015|title=Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit SPE - STEN|url=http://suomenlistalevyt.blogspot.com/2015/08/spe-sten.html|access-date=2023-06-24|website=Sisältää hitin}}

|1

{{single chart|Ireland2|3|song=Stars On 45 Vol. 2|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"|Italy (Musica e dischi){{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=Musica e dischi|language=it}} Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Stars on 45".

|8

{{single chart|Dutch40|4|artist=Stars On 45|song=Stars On 45 Vol. 2|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Dutch100|3|artist=Stars On 45|song=Stars On 45 Vol. 2|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"|Spain (AFYVE){{cite book |last=Salaverri |first=Fernando |title=Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 |edition=1st |date=September 2005 |publisher=Fundación Autor-SGAE |location=Spain |isbn=84-8048-639-2}}

|4

{{single chart|Sweden|12|artist=Stars On 45|song=Stars On 45 Vol. 2|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Switzerland|1|artist=Stars On 45|song=Stars On 45 Vol. 2|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|UKsinglesbyname|2|artist=Star Sound|artistid=18945|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"| US Billboard Hot 100{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Top Pop Singles 1955–2002|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2003|isbn=0898201551|location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin|page=674}}

|55

scope="row"| US Adult Contemporary (Billboard){{cite book|first= Joel |last= Whitburn |author-link= Joel Whitburn |year= 1993 |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 |publisher= Record Research |page=228}}

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{{single chart|West Germany|2|artist=Stars On 45|song=Stars On 45 Vol. 2|songid=754|rowheader=true}}

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=Year-end charts=

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!Chart (1981)

!Position

scope="row" |Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders){{cite web|title=Jaaroverzichten 1981: Singles |url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/annual.asp?year=1981 |publisher=Ultratop & Hung Medien |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125085922/http://www.ultratop.be/nl/annual.asp?year=1981 |archive-date=2014-01-25 }}

|27

scope="row" |Netherlands (Dutch Top 40){{cite web|url=https://www.top40.nl/bijzondere-lijsten/top-100-jaaroverzichten/1981|title=Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1981|publisher=Dutch Top 40|access-date=September 28, 2021}}

|50

scope="row" |Netherlands (Single Top 100){{cite web |title=Jaaroverzichten – Single 1981 |url=http://www.dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1981&cat=s |publisher=Hung Medien}}

|79

scope="row" |Switzerland (Schweitzer Hitparade){{cite web |title=Schweitzer Jahreshitparade 1981: Singles |url=http://hitparade.ch/charts/jahreshitparade/1981 |publisher=Hung Medien}}

|20

scope="row" |UK Singles (OCC){{cite book |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Scaping |title=BPI Year Book 1982 |chapter=The Top 200 Singles: January–December 1981 |publisher=The British Phonographic Industry Ltd |location=London, England |pages=46–49 |edition=5th |date=1982 |isbn=0-906154-03-0}}{{cite book |first1=Alan |last1=Jones |first2=Barry |last2=Lazell |first3=Dafydd |last3=Rees |chapter=The Top 200 Singles (UK) |title=Chart File 1982 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London, England |pages=74–77 |date=1982 |isbn=0-907080-49-9}}

|36

scope="row"|US (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual){{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |date=1999 |title=Pop Annual |location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |publisher=Record Research Inc. |isbn=0-89820-142-X}}

|260

scope="row" |West Germany (Offizielle Deutsche Charts){{cite web |title=Single-Jahrescharts: 1981 |url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/single-jahr/for-date-1981 |publisher=Offizielle Deutsche Charts}}

|54

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Sales and certifications

{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for More Stars}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Netherlands|artist=Stars on 45|title=More Stars|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=1982|certyear=1982|access-date=July 16, 2022}}

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References

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Sources and external links

  • {{AllMusic | class = artist | id = p192782 | tab = biography | label = Biography of Stars on 45/Starsound | first = Sharon | last = Mawer | accessdate = 2012-04025 }}
  • {{discogs artist|artist=Stars+On+45|name=Stars on 45}}
  • [http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/stars_on_45 Rateyourmusic.com biography and discography]
  • [http://www.thestarson45.nl The Dutch Stars on 45 fansite] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20071009203813/http://www.thestarson45.nl/ |date=2007-10-09 }}
  • [http://www.top4000.nl/page/hitlijsten/1980/49/ Top4000.nl]
  • [http://www.everyhit.com/ UK Top 40]
  • [http://www.irishcharts.ie/ Irish Charts.ie]
  • [http://austriancharts.at/ AustrianCharts.at]
  • [http://hitparade.ch/ Hitparade.ch, Switzerland]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721070100/http://norwegiancharts.com/ NorwegianCharts.com]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100121135301/http://swedishcharts.com/ SwedishCharts.com]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071029144156/http://charts-surfer.de/musiksearch.php West German charts]
  • {{Discogs master|122059|Stars on 45 Volume Two}}
  • {{Discogs master|654533|More Stars on 45 II}}

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