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Devo! Dexys Midnight Runners! a-ha? OXO? Who are your favorite one-hit wonders from the decade, and which acts have gotten this tag unfairly? Mega-hit songwriter Sam Hollander joins Totally 80's podcast host Lyndsey Parker and John Hughes to break it down.

A-ha's revolutionary music video for "Take On Me" has passed the one billion views milestone on YouTube, immortalizing the Norwegian trio in Internet history.

The 1985 music video holds the distinctive honor as one of the few 80's videos to join the billion-views party, alongside Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." The electro-pop outfit also celebrates becoming the first European act to achieve the streaming landmark while their legendary "Take On Me" takes the title as the only video of its time to feature the rotoscope-styled illustration. 

On this week's episode of the Rhino Podcast, former Warner Brothers Record executives John Beug and Jeff Ayeroff discuss how they worked together to bring their revolutionary vision for a-ha's "Take On Me" music video to animated life. 

Illustrators Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger, the renowned animators of a-ha's "Take On Me" video, recently sat down on The Rhino Podcast to deep dive into the story behind the making of the legendary music video.

Watch the story of a-ha's multi-platinum track "Take On Me" come to life.