What are the best one hit wonders
Who: Althea and Donna What: ' Uptown Top Ranking' Why: A bona fide reggae pop classic. Later 'covered' by Lily Allen as ' Smile'. Listen to these tracks on Spotify. Photo: Added: Who: Laurie Anderson What: ' O Superman' Why: Inventive and scary. The sound of your toaster if it could speak and was deeply political. Photo: Added: Who: Desireless What: ' Voyage Voyage' Why: In our childish minds Desireless were the same band who graced the pages of French textbook ' Tricolore'. Photo: Added: Who: Martha and The Muffins What: ' Echo Beach' Why: A new wave classic. And also rather hilarious to imagine someone saying from the band uttering the phrase: Yeah, I'm A Muffin, to anyone who asked what they did for a living. Photo: Added: Who: The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown What: ' Fire' Why: An amazing song, sung by a man who looked like went home at night and said to his mother: I went to RADA, you know. Photo: Added: Who: Jane Birkin the combination of artist and song that scores huge in the music industry with one single, but is unable to repeat the achievement. The term can refer to the artist, the song, or both together. Contents 1 Criteria 2 Songs by decade 3 One-hit wonders from other media 4 Double one-hit wonders 5 Solo career one-hit wonders 6 Re-recordings of songs by one-hit wonders 7 See also 8 References 9 Notes 10 External links Criteria[edit] Music journalist Wayne Jancik, whose book, The Billboard Book of One- Hit Wonders, defines a one-hit wonder rather conservatively, as an act that has won a position on Billboard's national, pop, Top 40 just once. He therefore includes influential performers such as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix solely on the basis of their Top 40 performance on the Billboard Hot 100 (the criteria thus ignores competing charts such as those published by Mediabase and the now defunct Cash Box and Radio thus Roger Daltrey is distinguished from The Who, Joplin is distinguished from Big Brother and the Holding Company and Ted Nugent is distinguished from The Amboy Dukes. He restricts his reporting time to the period from the start of the rock-and-roll era (defined by the author as ) to 31 December 1992. The latter date was picked to allow a five-year lag time before publication for a listed one-hit wonder to produce a second hit; this unfortunately does not allow for a longer hiatus between hits for a particular performer. For example, Lenny Kravitz is listed for It Ain't Over ' Til It's Over ( No. 2, August 1991 [1] the book therefore misses subsequent hits, such as Fly Away (which hit number 12 on the Hot 100) and Dig In (which hit number 31 on the Hot 100). Jancik's The.
Spotify tallied the songs that appeared most on playlists that were similarly titled “one hit wonders” and found the following songs were (sadly) the most popular: Here it is on Spotify if you want to listen to them all.