Hunting High and Low on TV,' and no lows in sight, A-ha's debut is a treat worth relishing." The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". The album has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. In June 1986, A-ha began a world tour which went through to February 1987. The band had never played a single concert when "Take On Me" shot to #1 in America; soon it could boast a 16-country, 113-city tour under its belt along with countless interviews and television appearances. On 6 May 2010, the band announced the remaster and re-release
High-context and low-context cultures alternatives, usually with collapsed and shortened sentences, therefore it requires the listeners to share a great deal of common perspectives to understand the implicit meaning of the conversation. Restricted codes are commonly used in high-context culture groups, where people share same cultural background and can easily understand the implicit meanings between lines without further elaboration. Conversely, in cultural groups with low context, where people share little common knowledge or ‘value individuality above group identification’, detailed elaboration becomes essential to avoid misunderstanding. The concepts of collectivism and individualism have been applied to high- and low-context cultures by Hofstede in his Cultural