What sort of value is associated with being A-ha or in A-ha.
Nobody I know could name one member from A-ha although almost everyone I know
could name one A-ha song, no matter his or her age or having lived under a rock
or in a cave for 30 years.
A-ha is the biggest musical export in the history of Norway
(thankfully, ABBA is from Sweden … and black metal is relatively unpopular) and
that’s resulted in basically one significant album with two of their top 40
hits including “Take On Me” which is maybe one of the top 20 most popular songs
in the history of recorded music.
Surely A-ha are pretty rich. They reformed for about a
decade until calling it quits – for good, or so we think – in 2011. I guess it
is all about the threshold of having to play “Take On Me” every night which
determines how much longer you’d like to be a band. Right?
It’s interesting reading the band’s Wikipedia page and the
author stating that A-ha is often perceived as a “one-hit wonder” despite two
top 40 hits. Norwegians can have attitude.
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