A-ha’s chart-topping hit, “Tackle Me” reached two billion YouTube views this week, marking the primary tune launched in that decade to attain this milestone.
The Norwegian trio — Magne Furuholmen, Morten Harket and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, who had been 22, 26 and 24, respectively on the time — launched their debut album, Looking Excessive and Low, in 1985, and shot the eye-catching video for lead single “Take On Me.” Directed by Steve Barron (Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”), the clip’s mixture of pencil-sketch animation and reside motion made it well-liked on MTV, and the monitor reached No. 1 in its fifteenth week on the chart, making A-ha the primary Norwegian group to high the Sizzling 100.
Chatting with Billboard again in 2019, Furuholmen paid tribute to the clip’s longevity. “Clearly the video is exclusive and it has some options that rise up and stand the take a look at of time. It’s hand drawn which makes it what it’s,” the keyboardist famous. “The tune additionally appears to resonate with folks throughout time. It’s simply very lucky to have such an enormous tune in our catalogue. We in all probability spent just a few years speaking it down, making an attempt to get folks to concentrate on new stuff we’re doing. At this level, actually talking for myself, I’m simply stunned and proud that the tune has achieved so effectively and nonetheless finds an viewers.”
Watch A-ha’s “Tackle Me” music video beneath.
