ABBA 'need to decide' if Voyage show will go on posthumously
Since opening in May 2022, more than three million people have seen the show that brings to life younger versions of the ABBA members through digital "ABBA-tars".
They are backed by a 10-piece live band in a purpose-built arena in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.
The influential pop group, also made up of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog, and Benny Andersson, were the first Swedish winners of the Eurovision Song Contest with their hit Waterloo in Brighton in 1974.
Asked on Times Radio if the virtual concerts will continue if a member of ABBA dies, Ulvaeus told the station: "That's a question I've never had before... I honestly don't know, hadn't thought about that.
"It's good you raise that question - I'll talk to the others about that as we need to decide beforehand between us if it's OK for all four of us to go on after we're gone."
Fältskog and Ulvaeus married in 1971 before splitting almost a decade later.
Andersson and Lyngstad married in 1978 and divorced in 1981, a year before the group broke up.
ABBA had a string of chart-toppers including Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Dancing Queen, Super Trouper, The Winner Takes It All, and Mamma Mia!.
, their ninth studio album.
Their songs also inspired the musical Mamma Mia!, which began in London in 1999 and became a worldwide sensation.
Two spin-off movies, 2008's Mamma Mia! and 2018's Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, followed the musical's success.
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