It was originally hastily written after a-ha agreed to a one-time reunion at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in 1998.

The song became a number-one radio hit in much of Europe, including topping the chart in the band's native Norway.

and a thousand moonbeams dart from black skies of nu-pop baloney on a clifftop everglade under a wind-machine in Rio like 'NSync and all the rest of it never happened.

"[3] The music video for "Summer Moved On" was directed by Swedish director Adam Berg and filmed in Cádiz, Spain at the beginning of March 2000.

[4] In 2017, a-ha appeared on the television series MTV Unplugged and played and recorded acoustic versions of many of their popular songs for the album MTV Unplugged – Summer Solstice in Giske, Norway, including "Summer Moved On" (featuring Alison Moyet).