ABBA for the group. The track would set the stage for ABBA's foray into disco with their next album. On 9 January 1979, the group performed "Chiquitita" at the Music for UNICEF Concert held at the United Nations General Assembly to celebrate UNICEF's Year of the Child. ABBA donated the copyright of this worldwide hit to the UNICEF; see Music for UNICEF Concert. The single was released the following week, and reached number-one in ten countries. In mid-January 1979, Ulvaeus and Fältskog announced they were getting divorced. The news caused interest from the media and led to speculation about the band's
SOS (ABBA song) by director Lasse Hallström for the band. Much of the video is filmed from an overhead camera, as if from a tower or lighthouse, with the bandmates' faces sometimes distorted, as though shot through a prism. During the band's first visit to the United States, ABBA performed "SOS" on the long-running television program "American Bandstand" on 15 November 1975. ABBA performs the song live in the concert film "", Hallström's first English-language feature film, filmed during the band's tour of Australia in 1977. ABBA performed the song on its 1979 tour of Europe and North America. While the track does