Carl Magnus Palm is regarded as the world's leading ABBA historian. He has written or co-written eight ABBA books. Titles include, ABBA: The Complete Recordings first published in 1994 (Verulam) and revised and expanded in 2017, it won the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Best Popular Music Discography in 2018; and the critically acclaimed Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA, (Omnibus, 2001), the first comprehensive biography about ABBA. In addition Carl Magnus Palm has co-produced a number of television programs about the band.