performance at Nobel Peace Prize Concert

The band was invited to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 1998. Waaktaar-Savoy wrote ” Summer Moved On ” especially for this performance. They also performed “The Sun Always Shines on T.V.” This performance was A-ha’s comeback into the world of music, yet the band’s set was controversially omitted from a programme of concert highlights that was televised in the UK, and even more controversially in the US by FOX . Nevertheless, the band returned to the studio. Those recording sessions resulted in 2000’s Minor Earth Major Sky , an international tour, and a webcast performance of the band opening the new Vallhall Arena in Oslo on 24 and 25 March 2001. A-ha’s video for “I Wish I Cared” was one of the first fully web-based animated Macromedia Flash music videos to be made available. (The first was Duran Duran’s 2000 video for ” Someone Else Not Me “. ) The album reached platinum status, with sales of 1.5 million copies, and spawned four singles: “Summer Moved On”, “Minor Earth Major Sky”, “Velvet” and “The Sun Never Shone That Day”. “Summer Moved On” went to number one in 17 countries.