Stay on These Roads (song)
- Stay on These Roads (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Stay on These Roads
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Artist = a-ha
from Album = Stay on These Roads
B-side = "Soft Rains of April" (original mix)
Released = March 14, 1988
Format = 7" single
12" vinyl
CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Synthpop
New Wave
Alternative rock
Length = 4:46
Label =
Writer = Pal Waaktaar-Savoy
Magne Furuholmen
Morten Harket
Producer = Alan Tarney
Last single = "The Living Daylights"
(1987)
This single = "Stay on These Roads"
(1988)
Next single = "The Blood That Moves the Body"
(1988)
"Stay on These Roads" is the first single from a-ha's album of the same name.
Release and reception
"Stay on These Roads" was released in the spring of 1988 and became the most successful single from the "Stay on These Roads" album, along with "The Living Daylights" on the U.S. rock charts.
The song didn't hit the national charts in the U.S., but it was a significant hit across Europe. It went to #7 in Germany, #3 in France, and #2 in Ireland. In Norway the song gave the band their fourth #1 single. This was a-ha's seventh and final Top 5 showing in the UK to date, reaching #5 there on March 27, 1988.
Track listings
; 7" single
# "Stay on These Roads" — 4:50
# "Soft Rains of April" (original mix) — 3:12
; 3" maxi
# "Stay on These Roads" (7" version) — 4:48
# "Stay on These Roads" (original mix) — 3:17
# "Take on Me" — 3:49
# "Cry Wolf" — 4:04
; 12" maxi
# "Stay on These Roads" (extended remix) — 6:12
# "Soft Rains of April" (original mix) — 3:12
Certifications
Charts
References
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