Swedish legends ABBA’s “Waterloo” has been crowned the UK’s favourite Eurovision song of all time, the BBC special Come Together has revealed. The 2020 Eurovision Song Contest has been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but fans of the competition got to watch the Come Together special on Saturday evening – on the night that this year’s contest was supposed to take place (May 16).

Hosted by Graham Norton, the show gave the public the opportunity to vote on a shortlist made by experts and celebrity fans such as Scott Mills, Rylan Clark-Neal, Ken Bruce, Adele Roberts and Mel Giedroyc, as well as former UK acts SuRie and Nicki French.

The Swedish four piece won the competition in 1974 in Brighton, which kicked off their career: The song topped the UK charts and sold nearly 6 million copies. “Of course it’s ABBA”, Graham Norton said whilst announcing the winner, “it was always going to be.” ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus said he found it “hard to believe” that this is where it all had started for them years ago.

The special also showed what the UK’s entry for this year’s competition was supposed to be: My Last Breath by James Newman, to whom Norton spoke to via video call. Newman confessed he was “pretty gutted” and had to “have a few minutes by myself”, once he found out the contest had been cancelled. The singing competition attracts an audience of nearly 200 million people every year and was due to take place in Rotterdam after the Netherlands had won last year’s competition.

But there aren’t only bad news. ABBA member Benny Andersson said the iconic band is hoping to release some new music later this year. In a video shared by ABBA Talk, the musician was asked about the ABBA songs that fans have been promised for a long time. “They’re coming”, he answered in Swedish, “they’re coming this year. I’m guessing after the summer.”