Trivia

A-Ha is responsible for the "ripped jeans" fashion trend of 1985. Lead singer Morten Harket was the originator of this trend due to a slight mishap, he mistakenly tore the front of his jeans on a Marshall amplifier while rushing to the stage during a performance. Afterwards, he remarked "Ouch!I just didn't see those". In future performances he used razor blades to achieve the same effect.

In 1991, A-Ha set a Guinness Book World Record by playing for the largest paying audience in the world: 198,000 people at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In 2005, the video for A-ha: Take on Me (1985) was parodied in an episode of a Les Griffin (1999) cartoon where Chris is pulled into the pencil sketched world of the video with A-Ha singer, Morten Harket. The scene contains re-drawn footage copied from the "Take On Me" video, but with Chris instead of "The Girl".

An A-Ha poster can be seen on the wall during the Seinfeld (1989) episode "The Pez Dispenser," which was aired in 1992.

A-Ha has performed at two Nobel Peace Prize concerts, the most prestigious award show in the world. A-Ha performed in 1998 and 2001. (Morten Harket has also performed solo twice.) The 1998 performance was A-Ha's comeback into the world of music.

Songs by A-Ha have been included as background music in episodes of popular TV series, such as Alerte à Malibu (1989), Melrose Place (1992), South Park (1997), Smallville (2001), and Les Simpson (1989), as well as movies such as Divine mais dangereuse (2001), Tueurs à gages (1997), Corky Romano (2001), and Beavis and Butthead.

Fans of A-Ha includes: Coldplay, Sarah Brightman, Graham Nash, Pet Shop Boys, Keane, Adam Clayton, Robbie Williams, Claudia Schiffer, and Leonard Cohen.

The very first version of "Take On Me" was called "The Juicyfruit Song" and was recorded during a rehearsal in 1981 by Bridges, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (Pål Waaktaar) and Magne Furuholmen's former band.

In 1999, songwriter Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (Pål Waaktaar) received an award: A-Ha had been played 2,000,000 times on US radio-stations since 1985.

In 1994, A-Ha performed the official song for the Winter Paralympics of 1994 at Lillehammer in Norway. The name of the song was A-ha: Shapes That Go Together (1994).

A-Ha sales (with albums, singles and EP's) is around 70 million copies.

On the 30th of October 2006 in London, A-Ha received the prestigious Q Inspiration Award for their long contribution to music and for inspiring many of their younger colleagues in the business.

Currently in studio, working on a new album. Possible release, spring 2009. Following tour is planned. (September 2008)

Will tour Russia and Norway shortly, before beginning on their next studio album. Release date probably sometime in 2007. (August 2006)