October 19th, 1985
A-Ha
On this day in music history, the band A-Ha went to #1 on the US singles chart with their song, Take On Me.
That song and success, made them the first Norwegian group to go to #1! The video for the song was very cool and different, too, featuring the band in a pencil-sketch animation method called rotoscoping, combined with live action. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.
In 2024 Take on Me became the first music video from the 1980s to reach 2 billion YouTube views.
