'Take On Me' reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 34 years ago today
The song, which has sold 2 million copies and been streamed 628.1 million times , is so ubiquitous that its official video is nearing 1 billion YouTube views -- a rarity for a 20th-century track. To celebrate, the band is hosting a contest that will reward the fan who predicts the closest time and date of when the one billionth view will occur with a flight to Norway to see the band at Trondheim Spektrum on Feb. 7.
“We had several releases of an earlier version, so the song itself was released three times, and therefore, it’s a proven flop,” says Harket. “And it’s also proven hit … It’s interesting, I think, because it’s the same song.”it didn’t think it had gotten the song quite right. After some tweaking still resulted in a failure to launch, the band fully re-recorded it with producer Alan Tarney.
The famous keyboard refrain is the first piece of music Harket heard when he joined a-ha. The band had met in Waaktaar-Savoy’s parents’ basement to rehearse, and “they didn’t have the song; they just had that riff,” recalls Harket. When Furuholmen played it on an old piano, Harket says he instantly knew that “that’s the song that’s going to make it.”
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