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A-Ha take on Jacko
10:26 | Tuesday July 28, 2009
A-Ha are set for a huge chart comeback this coming weekend as they head towards their highest position on the albums countdown in more than two decades.
The band’s newly-issued UMTV album Foot Of The Mountain is presently only being outsold by the RCA-handled The Essential by Michael Jackson, although Island’s Florence & The Machine is around 300 sales further behind with Lungs.
The last time A-Ha appeared in the albums Top 10 was in May 1988 with Stay On These Roads, their third consecutive album to reach number two in the chart following Hunting High And Low and Scoundrel Days.
The Norwegian veterans could be joined in the Top 10 this coming Sunday by Wall of Sound’s Reverend & The Makers whose new album A French Kiss In The Chaos is currently the eighth biggest seller of the week.
Following her success with Robert Plant, Rounder/Decca’s Alison Krauss is about to score her highest-charting solo set in the UK with Essential expected to debut in or around the Top 20 on Sunday.
Other new entries to the chart will include Chicane with the Modena-issued The Best Of, which follows his Top 10 single Poppiholla and Motown/Universal act Melanie Fiona arriving with The Bridge.
On singles Interscope/Polydor’s Black Eyed Peas have opened up a 2,000 sales lead over the current number one, Epic act JLS’s Beat Again, with their I Gotta Feeling, which if sustained will give the group their third UK number one single and second successive one following Boom Boom Pow.
There is only partial movement around the rest of the Top 10, including Good Music/Mercury’s Mr Hudson featuring Kanye West presently sitting as the week’s third top seller with Supernova and Positiva/Virgin’s Pitbull currently moving into the top five with I Want You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
No new entries are presently showing up in the Top 20 with the highest arrival at this stage John Barrowman whose RCA-issued cover of the Barry Manilow hit I Made It Through The rain is currently reported as the week’s 30th top seller.
The full midweeks singles and albums charts are on Musicweek.com.
Readers' comments
Great news a-ha are band that best music last 30 years !! only listen your music...
Thats fantastic news for aha. Hopefully it will stay at least in the top ten this week. I'm a long standing fan and this new album has certainly been worth the wait. Cant wait to see them this November at the O2.
This new album is just marvellous...it's fair to take the first place.
Good for a-ha! A well-deserved chart entry
Brilliant Aha so deserve to reach good uk chart position,well done.
Could it be so ? a-ha finally getting some decent album succes again in the UK ? It's about time.
I am so happy for a-ha...I hope the album remains there for a long time...Let the british audience appreciate the quality of their work.....They've been producing good music for almost a quarter of a century now!!
a-ha are the greatest
Yes- Foot of the Mountain deserves the success, about time, they've been making quality albums not only in the eighties, but the albums they've made in the noughties are much better! FOTM is their pinnacle so far. Congratulations.
many congrats guys , its about time the uk woke up again to the sound of a-ha , but what happend to the fotm single ??
So happy!!!!!! this album deserves a massive success and the uk charts will prove it!!!!!! good for a-ha and universals good promotion! finally many people apart from their loyal fans will see what a-ha arae capable of!
a-ha so deserve to have success with this album. Their talent as musicians has been underrated for way too long now. They deserve to be Number 1!
This is simply great news! a-ha have always been seen by the masses as an 80's pop band, but they have in the last 10 years blown that myth apart. They have evolved beautifully in the 00's. They came back in 2000 with the stunning 'Minor Earth Major Sky', and surpassed that with my own personal favourite and highly underrated a-ha album 'Lifelines' in 2002. 'Analogue' followed in 2005 and despite spawning a Top 10 single with the albums title track, the album failed to break into the Top 20. Now 'Foot Of The Mountain' is about to set the record straight! Recognition at long last, and so fully deserved.
brilliant new album. Where is the single in the charts? I have got all their albums and got my album signed at hmv signing london recently. they deserve real success.
Fanastic News - Well done it is about time a-ha started getting the recognition they deserve in the UK. I cannot understand why it as taken soon long. Hope it stay's there for a long time. We just need to radio stations to start playing and promoting the single now. :)
Great job lads. Good to see you still have it after all this time. eeeh :)
I'm so happy! Finally good news for a-ha...it was the time for some appreciation of their work. They're making good music, their albums are absolutely piece of art, but the public seems to ignore it....and when you're thinking about the influence their music had in so many artists' work....no need to mention them but it was the time that a-ha receives the recognition they really deserve. Good work guys!
hi all, very impressed with the new album and looking forward the gig in manchester men arena, gud to see them back to there best, album i mean
Hi everybody its like a dream everytime a-ha release an album ! As usual i take time to adapt to any new album but as time goes by i become a very a-hamania ! I think the album Foot On The Mountain is a very impressive one.Its a little "erasure" blend when i listen to Real Meaning ! Riding the crest is a pleasant listening hit......at first time !!! Please help me i'm a very poor fan i have watched only a few clips of the band such as take on me , summer moved on, velvet , hunting high and low and that's all !!!!!
Its great to see a-ha finally putting together a winner, from start to finish- brilliant, a breath of fresh air in the music world. Morten Harket's soaring vocals and the music & writing of a-ha is just amazing, combining both past and present stylings of synth, rock and pop, mesh together seamlessly, they've been around a long time putting out quality music with each release and going unnoticed in the world, they deserve a top 5 hit cd. One of my favorites bands over the past 25 years.