A-ha success with two more hit singles from the same album—"Train of Thought" and "Hunting High and Low" (with another innovative video) —and the band remained popular throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The band's first album, 1985's "Hunting High and Low", became a worldwide bestseller, spending most of October and November in the top 20 of "Billboard"'s Top 200 album chart. The album and its four hit singles garnered international recognition for A-ha. "Hunting High and Low" earned triple platinum status in the UK, and reached platinum status in the US and Germany, while earning gold in Brazil and the
Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 At the close of the voting the song had received 96 points, placing 4th in a field of 20 competing countries. This high placing was the third of five straight top ten finishes, and was the run-up to Ireland's win in Brussels the next year. Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 Ireland was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, held in Bergen, Norway. The Irish national final to select their entry, the "National Song Contest 1986", was held on 30 March at the Radio Telefís Éireann Studios in Dublin, and was hosted by radio and television presenter Mike