Songfacts®:

• One of ABBA's biggest international hits, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" is one of their most influential songs. What stands out in the mix is the synthesizer riff, played on an ARP Odyssey. This brought an electronic element into ABBA's disco sound that set the stage for much of the techno music in the post-disco era.
• Written by the two guys in ABBA, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, this song finds their singer Agnetha Fältskog alone at night, yearning for a man. The song was very popular in clubs, where in the wee hours there were plenty of people looking for a man after midnight.
• Madonna's "Hung Up" is based on this track, and Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson are included in its songwriting credits. The only previous time ABBA had allowed one of their songs to be sampled was in 1996 when they allowed the Fugees to sample the bass and synthesizer of 1977's "The Name Of The Game" for their 1996 hit "Rumble in the Jungle." Madonna begged the ABBA songwriters for permission to sample this song and sent an emissary to Stockholm telling them how much she liked their music.
• "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" reached #1 in Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland and Switzerland, but it didn't chart in America. It also hit #3 in the UK.
  
  The European appeal seems intentional - the song uses British English, with the line "I'm watchin' the late show in my flat, all alone." In America, a "flat" is an apartment.
• "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" was released on ABBA's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 compilation, the only new song included on the set.
• This isn't the first ABBA song to repeat the same word three times in the title: In 1976 they released a song called "Money, Money, Money."
• Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! plays in the first episode of the 2024 Netflix series Kaos when we meet Dionysus, who is a hedonistic club kid - the series envisions Greek gods in human form. A lot of popular music is used in the show; "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits and "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult are used in that episode as well.
  
  The song was also used in a 2022 episode of RuPaul's Drag Race and in the 2019 movie Swoon. And, of course, it's in the 2008 Abba musical Mamma Mia!