Happy New Year is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA, released on their 1980 album Super Trouper and written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Although it was not originally a major chart single in many countries, it became a seasonal staple through radio play, New Year broadcasts and later streaming playlists, returning every December and January. Its hopeful look toward a new year, rather than a party anthem, helped it endure beyond its era. Today creators reuse short cuts of it for greetings, countdowns and reflections on the year just ending.
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A short cut of ABBA's Happy New Year, with its warm festive melody and chorus, often used for countdown videos, holiday greetings and end-of-year messages.
This clip is a 17-second cut from ABBA's Happy New Year, opening with the song's familiar piano-led introduction and building into its warm, hopeful chorus about leaving the old year behind. The voices are smooth and layered, the melody is instantly recognisable, and the arrangement feels both nostalgic and celebratory. Even in this short form, it carries the full emotional lift of the original: a gentle pause, then a bright, communal feeling of starting again. Listeners tend to smile, sing along quietly, or feel a small rush of New Year optimism, which is why the excerpt works so well as a greeting rather than just background music.
