At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the video for "Take On Me" won six awards—Best New Artist
in a Video, Best Concept Video, Most Experimental Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects,
and Viewer's Choice—and was nominated for two others, Best Group Video and Video of the Year.
"Take On Me" was also nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Video at the 13th American Music Awards in 1986.
The Norwegian Pop trio "a-ha" achieved global stardom in 1985 when their debut single,
“Take On Me” from the album ‘Hunting High And Low’ topped the charts in 36 different
countries on its way to becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time,
and the 5th most streamed song of the 20th century.
Band members: Morten Harket (lead vocals), Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (Guitar),
Magne Furuholmen (Keyboards).
Viewer comments:
A masterpiece that never gets old!
How is eternity achieved? Composing a song like this.
Fun fact: It took 4 months to create all the hand-drawings one by one.
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