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
Hunting High and Low drew inspiration from Patterson's animated film "Commuter" and the film "Altered States". The innovative video for "Take On Me" was first broadcast on local Boston music video station V-66, and soon after given heavy rotation on MTV. The single debuted in "Billboard" the week of 13 July 1985, and was heading into the U.S. top twenty when it was given an international release, including a second release in Norway and a third shot at the UK market. It hit number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the United States, spending 27 weeks on the charts and becoming the tenth-biggest