The discography of A-ha, a Norwegian synthpop/rock band, consists of eleven studio albums, eight compilation albums, six box sets, ten extended plays, and fifty singles. This list does not include solo material or other projects recorded by A-ha band members.
A-ha was formed in 1982 by vocalist Morten Harket, guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, and keyboardist Magne Furuholmen. The band moved to London and eventually signed with Warner Bros. Records. They released their debut album Hunting High and Low in 1985, which remains their biggest success and contained their international break-through hit song "Take On Me". The band has scored two top twenty US hits in their career, but has had several hit singles in many countries in Europe, South America and their native Norway. By 1993, the band had released five studio albums before going on hiatus the following year.
After a performance at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 1998, the band returned to the studio and recorded a new album, Minor Earth Major Sky, which was released in 2000. Their next album, Lifelines, was released in 2002, but would be their final album for Warner Bros. After signing to Polydor (part of Universal Music), further new albums were released in 2005 and 2009, after which the band decided to break up. However, they reformed for yet another new album, Cast in Steel, which was released in 2015. In 2022 they signed a one album deal with RCA/Sony Music and released the True North album in 2022.[1] Harket, Furuholmen and Waaktaar-Savoy have been awarded Spellemannprisen 8 times.[2] Through 2009 A-ha had sold over 100 million records worldwide.[3] The band has released eleven studio albums, five compilations and four live albums.[3]
In their native Norway, eight of the band's studio albums and eight of their singles have reached number one.
^"The Blood That Moves the Body (The Gun Mix)" was a new remixed version of the song released as a single to promote the compilation Headlines and Deadlines – The Hits of A-ha, though it wasn't included on the album. The B-side of this single, the 'Two-Time Gun Mix', appeared on the 2010 compilation album 25.
Top 100 (Kent Music Report) peaks to 12 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). Sydney: Australian Chart Book. p. 13. ISBN0-646-11917-6. N.B. This chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
Top 200 peaks from November 1994 to December 2010: "Chart Log UK 1994-2010 > A – Azzido Da Bass". zobbel.de. Retrieved 16 June 2019. N.B. This site uses the uncompressed singles chart (no exclusions) for positions 76-200, between November 1994 and May 2001.
