Take On Me,” the 1980s synth-pop hit song from the band A-ha, marks 40 years of global ubiquity even while personal disputes ...

The makers of the Last of Us 2 video game were hunting high and low for the perfect song. They’d commenced work on an emotive cut scene in the survival horror adventure in which vengeance-bound hero ...

Thirty years ago this month, the Norwegian pop group topped the charts with their irresistible synth-pop gem—and revolutionized music videos. In honor of a-ha's anniversary, guitarist and songwriter ...

Thirty years ago, a 16-year-old Ohio boy saw a video on MTV that changed his life. The song was Take On Me by the Norwegian trio a-ha. Even if you’re a millennial, you’ve heard the synth-pop song with ...

Norwegian synthpop trio A-ha’s “Take On Me” has joined YouTube‘s billion-views club. The iconic video from A-ha, which combines live action with pencil-sketch animation, is only the second song from ...

The classic video from the Norwegian trio A-ha officially passed the one billion views mark on YouTube on Monday Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand ...

A-ha's classic video for "Take On Me" was the result of painstaking effort -- it took 16 weeks to rotoscope the frames, creating that signature blend between the real and hand-drawn worlds. Now, ...

A-ha has unveiled a 4k restoration of their revolutionary rotoscoped video for their Eighties smash “Take on Me.” A-ha famously released two versions of “Take on Me” and two videos for the song. The ...

A feature documentary on Norwegian “Take On Me” singers A-ha will receive a worldwide release this November. “A-ha: The Movie,” distributed internationally by Esther van Messel’s First Hand Films, ...

Anyone of a certain age — or anyone who’s heard of MTV, period — is familiar with the iconic 1984 synthpop hit “Take on Me” by Norwegian band A-ha. More than three decades later, the song (and its ...

You’d think that after more than 30 years of hearing “Take On Me” by a-ha on the radio and seeing its iconic animated/live-action video a combined three million times, there wouldn’t be many new ways ...

Despite having one of the hardest-to-sing choruses in pop history — a fact easily confirmed by a trip to any karaoke bar — a-ha’s “Take on Me” is one of the most beloved singles of the Eighties. But ...