ABBA, Blondie and Biggie enter US National Recording Registry

The members of ABBA, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson (Alberto Pezzali/AP)

ABBA, Blondie and The Notorious B.I.G. are entering America’s audio canon.

New inductees into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress include ABBA’s 1976 album Visitors, The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 album Ready To Die, Blondie’s 1978 breakthrough Parallel Lines and Gene Autry’s 1949 version of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.