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There are not so many Norwegian popular artists that have made it to the international market.

However, in the 1980s, Norwegian popular music band, a-ha, had meteoric international success when the trio's 1985 debut Take On Me went to number one in the US and the UK.

Since the mid 1990s, Norwegian popular music has experienced a thorough transformation from a small and domestically oriented scene into a rich and diverse society of musicians and industry reps that have their sights set on the international stage.

Sissel Kyrkjebø, the singer commonly known as " Sissel ", has also reached a level of worldwide popularity-especially after her voice appeared on the soundtrack for the 1997 film Titanic.

Highlights of her career include singing the Olympic hymn at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, representing Norway at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, and performing at the invitation of tenor greats Plácido Domingo and José Carreras at the first Christmas concert in Moscow after the fall of the Soviet Union.