Wrap Your Arms Around Me

Wrap Your Arms Around Me is the seventh studio album, and first English-language album, by Swedish singer and ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog, first released on 30 May 1983 in the Netherlands, followed by an international release a day later, by Polar Music Records, and 8 August in North America, by Polydor Records. Following the break-up of ABBA in late 1982, she met with record producer Mike Chapman in London, known for his work with Blondie. He began collaborating with Fältskog to take role by coming up with the album title and produced it thereafter. The recording for Wrap Your Arms Around Me took place at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, where Fältskog collaborated with songwriters and studio musicians who previously worked with ABBA to complete the album within three months.

The album marked a significant step in Fältskog's solo career, resulting in a shift in musical style from the pop-oriented sound of ABBA to a more adult contemporary and soft rock aesthetic that established Fältskog's conventional sound following her later solo albums until I Stand Alone. Wrap Your Arms Around Me showcases a ballad-tempo driven by an energetic, introspective sensibility of dance, incorporating various forms of pop, post-disco, europop, synth-pop, calypso, as well as a precursor to album-oriented rock throughout the majority of the album. This eventually helped secure Fältskog's reputation as a solo artist, growing more independent from the ABBA clout. Despite limited international chart-topping success compared to ABBA, the album remains an important part of Fältskog's musical catalogue, marking a new chapter in her career. Wrap Your Arms Around Me received generally positive reviews from music critics upon its release, praising over its upbeat nature and energetic melodies, calling its pop style, with some impressed with the involvement of Chapman.

Throughout promotion, Fältskog performed the album on major television shows throughout Europe, followed by two promotional music videos. Following its release, the album became a commercial success across continental Europe, topping the charts in Sweden and Norway. However, it had only modest success overseas on the US Billboard 200 albums chart, peaking at 102. Four singles—"The Heat Is On", "Wrap Your Arms Around Me", "Can't Shake Loose", and "Man"—were released throughout various countries to promote the album. It has gone to attain sales certifications in a few countries and has sold an estimated 2.5 million copies worldwide.