The track went to number seven in Germany, number three in France and Iceland, and number two in Ireland.
In Norway, the song was the band's fourth number one single.
"Stay on These Roads" was A-ha's seventh and final top five showing in the United Kingdom, reaching number five on the chart edition of March 27, 1988.
It would prove band's last top ten hit in the country for almost two decades, as they did not score another UK top ten hit until eighteen years later in 2006.
A Roland D-50 was used on this song-the sound patch is called "Staccato Heaven"-the wind sound during the instrumental was made on either a Roland Juno 60 or Juno 106 synthesizer.