?The Album is the fifth album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released in 1977. It was released in conjunction with ABBA: The Movie. The album contained the singles "Take a Chance on Me", "The Name of the Game", and what is called ABBA's "goodbye" song "Thank You for the Music", despite the fact the song was released five years before the band officially broke up. It also features the song "Hole In Your Soul", which was performed as the last song at many ABBA concerts, including their final 1979 tour, and two other songs, "One Man, One Woman" and "I'm A Marionette". The Album was first released on CD in 1984. The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form by PolyGram/Universal Music four times; first in 1997, then in 2001, in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set and again in 2007 as a two disc 'Deluxe Edition'.
Polar's official cover featured an entirely background, and is the basis for current CD versions. However, Epic Records' original UK release of the LP featured a blue background on the front cover, fading to at the bottom. It also featured a gatefold sleeve. The back cover was altered, incorporating a similar photo of ABBA to that used elsewhere in the world for the inner sleeve, and referencing tracks included in ABBA: The Movie. The inner gatefold was designed to look like an air mail envelope, similar to the style later used for Gracias Por La Música and even had a photo of ABBA incorporated into a stamp in the corner.
This was the first and only time that Epic radically broke away from the standard Polar Music design for an ABBA album. The UK design for The Album has only been re-issued on CD format once, as part of a limited edition boxed set released by the Japanese arm of Universal Music in 2004.

One of Mike's biggest admirers, Steve Vai, asked Mike to arrange and record a new release featuring Mike's astounding and moving solo piano renditions of Vai's music. "I believe that Mike Keneally is one of the most creative and gifted musicians God has graced us with," says Steve in the liner notes of this beautiful package. "I have witnessed him do things on various instruments (at the same time occasionally) that defy reality, and though his technical command of his instruments is extraordinary, it's the profound voice of his inner ear that is truly the trump card of his brilliance. How could I have been so fortunate that he accepted to take on this project?"