Adams was a member of fourpiece boyband A1 who won a BRIT Award in 2001 for Best Newcomer and had two number one singles Take On Me the charttopping song that was originally made famous by and written by the Norwegian band aha and Same Old Brand New You before separatingWhilst in the boyband Adams also scooped a Smash Hits Poll Winners Party Award for Most Fanciable Male in 2001 It was announced in 2009 that A1 were to reform to compete to represent Norway in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest A1 then resigned with Universal Music Group and went on to record two further studio albums Waiting For Daylight and Rediscovered initially release in Norway which Adams cowrote and produced A1 are currently touring throughout the world and continue to release their new albums in the territories they visit