A-ha
Take On Me
Release Year (most acclaimed version):
1985
(Hunting High and Low)
Original version: 1984 (first single release)
Rankings:
All-Time
#588 /
1980s
#76 /
1985
#5
Genres:
New Wave
,
Synthpop
Parent Genres:
Electronic
,
Pop
,
Rock
Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
1002
Beats Per Minute (USA) - The Top 100 Tracks of the 1980s (2011)
93
Boom 99.7 (USA) - The Top 499 Songs of All Time (2016)
119
Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
No Order
Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein (USA) - Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s (2014)
No Order
NBC-10 (USA) - The 30 Best Songs of the 80s (2006)
No Order
Rolling Stone (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of 1984 (2014)
18
Slant (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s (2012)
19
Spectrum Culture (USA) - 100 Best Songs of the '80s (2017)
18
TimeOut Chicago (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015)
9
TimeOut New York (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015)
2
TimeOut New York (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2016)
2
TimeOut New York (USA) - The Best Songs Ever (2016)
76
VH1 (USA) - Nominations for the 100 Greatest 80s Songs (2006)
No Order
Q (UK) - The 1001 Best Songs Ever (2003)
No Order
Q (UK) - The 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004)
No Order
TimeOut London (UK) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015)
17
Wanadoo (UK) - The 20 Best Songs of the 80s
No Order
Laut (Germany) - Take on Me: Every Song by A-ha Ranked (2015)
11
Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 50 Best Songs of the 1980s (2010)
No Order
Spex (Germany) - The Best Singles of the Century (1999)
No Order
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) - 1020 Songs 1955-2005 (2005)
No Order
Fréderic Platzer (France) - Le top 100 du pop [Top 100 Pop Songs] (2013)
No Order
Carlo Herrera and Jose Luis Salas (Spain) - Alimenta Tus Oidos: 70 Playlists (2015)
No Order
Boom (Hong Kong/Mongolia) - 20 Greatest Songs from the '80s (2016)
No Order
Ezio Guaitamacchi (Italy) - Mille canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita [1,000 Songs That Changed Our Lives] (2009)
No Order
Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
No Order