Hunting High And Low - 8 000 000
Scoundrel Days - 5 700 000
Stay On These Roads - 4 000 000
East Of The Sun West Of The Moon - 2 300 000
Headlines & Deadlines - 2 100 000
Memorial Beach - 720 000
Minor Earth Major Sky - 1 400 000
Lifelines - 1 500 000
How Can I Sleep With Your Voice In my Head - ?
The Singles 1984 - 2005 - ?
Analogue - ?
Total: 25 740 000 and counting...
Funny facts:
The longest a-ha track is "Cold As Stone" (8:19) and the shortest is "The Way We Talk" (1:30)
The average song length is 4:15
Paal Waaktaar has written 30 songs for a-ha, Magne Furholmen has done 4 and Morten has written 6. And they have written 3 together.
In a major survey on the a-ha mailing list in 1999 it was concluded that:
Stay On These Roads is the best a-ha song
Scoundrel Days has the best album cover
Scoundrel Days is the best a-ha album
1994 A-ha said that they will never play "Take On Me" live again (fortunetely they lied).
The most played song at live concerts is "The Sun Always Shines On TV"
A-ha is the main reason that John Barry has ended his career as the "Bond composer", because he didn�t agree with the popstars on a single matter concerning their song The Living Daylights.
There are two versions of the "Headlines & Deadlines" video. One includes "Move to memphis" and the other doesn't.
Magne has met Dalai Lama.
There are two versions of the Take On Me video. One has more cartoons in it and the other one includes more shots at the band in real life.
Magne has personally told me that Norweigians and Swedes announce banana in the same way. Although In Sweden (and Norway) it�s called banan...
During their Sweden promotion in 2000 a TV channel managed to interview the guys. They spelled both Paal�s and Magnes last names wrong. I am sad to be Swedish...
Savoy had to cancel their Germany tour in 2001 because of the competition of another band called a-ha. Poor Paal, being forced to chose between his two bands...