Editing Scoundrel Days (section)

==Release and reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]] 
|rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/scoundrel-days-r25|title=Scoundrel Days - a-ha - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic|publisher=AllMusic}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2007 |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-1-84609-856-7 |pages=30 |edition=5th Concise}}</ref>
| rev3 = Musicfolio  
|rev3Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicfolio.com/modernrock/A-ha.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707115218/http://www.musicfolio.com/modernrock/a-ha.html |url-status=dead |title=Musicfolio Review|archive-date=7 July 2011}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|rev4Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=125638&resource=125638&fixture_artist=146042|title=Q Magazine - Music news & reviews, music videos, band pictures & interviewsQ Magazine - The world's best music|website=q4music.com}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' 
|rev5Score = Unfavourable<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/aha/albums/album/302330/review/5940877/scoundrel_days|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723233509/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/aha/albums/album/302330/review/5940877/scoundrel_days|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 July 2008|title=Rolling Stone Review|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Smash Hits]]''
|rev6Score = {{Rating|8|10}}

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The album's peak on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] was number 74. The album was another big hit by A-ha and sold over 6 million copies worldwide which gave the band international recognition. ''Scoundrel Days'' achieved Platinum status in the UK and Switzerland as well as Germany and Brazil. The album reached number two in the [[European Top 100 Albums]] chart.

Ned Raggett of [[AllMusic]] said, "The opening two songs alone make for one of the best one-two opening punches around: the tense edge of the title track, featuring one of Morten Harket's soaring vocals during the chorus and a crisp, pristine punch in the music, and 'The Swing of Things,' a moody, elegant number with a beautiful synth/guitar arrangement (plus some fine drumming courtesy of studio pro Michael Sturgis) and utterly lovelorn lyrical sentiments that balance on the edge of being overheated without quite going over...The '80s may be long gone, but ''Scoundrel Days'' makes clear that not everything was bad back then."<ref>[http://www.A-ha.com/MUSIC/discography/CD/AHA_albumScoundrelDays.aspx Scoundrel Days info] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220062657/http://www.a-ha.com/MUSIC/discography/CD/AHA_albumScoundrelDays.aspx |date=20 December 2008 }}</ref>

''Scoundrel Days'' included the singles "[[I've Been Losing You]]", "[[Cry Wolf (A-ha song)|Cry Wolf]]", "Maybe, Maybe", and "[[Manhattan Skyline (song)|Manhattan Skyline]]". All of the UK singles made the top 20 on [[UK Singles Chart]]. "I've Been Losing You" and "Cry Wolf" were the most successful singles from the album, "Cry Wolf" became a minor hit in the US and charted on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], peaking at #50, while "I've Been Losing You" was the most successful single in [[Europe]].

As part of a re-release of their first two albums, ''Scoundrel Days'' was expanded and remastered in 2010.

On 6 July 2010, the A-ha albums ''[[Hunting High and Low]]'' and ''Scoundrel Days'' were released as deluxe editions in the US through [[Rhino Records]]; both albums debuted in the top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Top Internet Sales chart; ''Hunting High and Low'' at number 34 and ''Scoundrel Days'' at number 36.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://A-ha.com/news/articles/deluxe-albums-enter-us-billboard-charts/ |title=Deluxe albums enter US Billboard charts &#124; The Official Website of a-ha |publisher=A-ha.com |access-date=8 March 2012}}</ref> The remastered reissue of ''Scoundrel Days'' reached number 52 in Germany, number 27 in Norway, number 190 in the UK.