Not really, considering his follow-up single was top 5 in at least 9 countries.I think the classic example is What Is Love by Haddaway.
Now that's what I call a one-hit wonder.
Not really, considering his follow-up single was top 5 in at least 9 countries.I think the classic example is What Is Love by Haddaway.
Now that's what I call a one-hit wonder.
I love 80's and 90's 1 hit wonders...
I have a playlist just for US 90's OHW's. I realize that SOME of these bands might be bigger in other countries, but they didn't chart or have radio play here in the US other than the song listed. So don't come at me, lol.
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Better Than Ezra - Good
Blessid Union of Souls - Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me)
Blind Melon - No Rain
Blur - Song 2
Candlebox - You
Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Del Amitri - Roll to Me
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance (this one is probably stretching it, never heard anything else from them though)
Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
DJ Kool - Let me Clear my Throat
Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever
Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Elastica - Connection
Everything But the Girl - Missing
Go West - The King of Wishful Thinking
Haddaway - What is Love
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
The Heights - How Do You Talk to an Angel
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
La Bouche - Be My Lover
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You
Lou Bega - Mambo #5
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Meat Puppets - Backwater
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Positive K - I Got a Man
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
The Refreshments - Banditos
Republica - Ready to Go
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me
Skee Lo - I Wish
Snow - Informer
Tal Bachman - She's So High
Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes
Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Verve Pipe - The Fresman
White Town - Your Woman
Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker
69 Boyz - Tootsee Roll
Chumbawamba is awesome though!Blind Melon - No Rain
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That came out in 2000.American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Weak
Was always being played by the bar bands by me. I haven't been to a bar for a while though…
Spin Doctors (singers of Two Princes) were huge for awhile--definitely not one-hit wonders. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong was gigantic. Their lead singer Chris Barron is a good follow on social media, too.We had a 90's one hit wonder thread a long time ago that was fucking 10 pages. It was the decade of one hit wonders. Fuck that and Bittersweet Symphony are up there.
Sex and Candy is up there. Closing time probably rounds out that final 4. Actually make it 5 Two Princes has to be included
One Week? No way are Barenaked Ladies a one-hit wonder!
My fave 1-hit wonder ever is The Way by Fastball and I think that was the 90's. Love that song.
Hanson also had Where's the Love? and I Will Run to You hit pretty big.Some good shouts in this thread but it's You Get What You Give by New Radicals - legendary song.
Or if you want more cheese; Mmmbop by Hanson
It really is very unique yet still captures the late 90s perfectly.
The comeback he's singing about is being back on the dating scene. It's sung at the ex-girlfriend.
It really is very unique yet still captures the late 90s perfectly.
I'm going to go with No Rain by Blind Melon
Chumbawamba is awesome though!
That came out in 2000.
lmao firstly that is a huge step down in comparison.Not really, considering his follow-up single was top 5 in at least 9 countries.
lmao firstly that is a huge step down in comparison.
Secondly, Life (Everybody Needs Somebody to Love) was only that big because it coasted off the insane success of What Is Love.
Haddaway quite instantly fell off the map after that.
So, yeah, really. It's one of the leading examples of a one-hit wonder. Because everyone expected a What Is Love pt. 2 is irrelevant. If anything, it makes the case stronger.
1989. Original vocals were samples of Loletta Holloway, the rerecorded vocals were provided by Heather Small, later of M-People (Movin' on up).Ride on time was the 80s I think.
Plus Black Box had a pile of hits.
I love 80's and 90's 1 hit wonders...
I have a playlist just for US 90's OHW's. I realize that SOME of these bands might be bigger in other countries, but they didn't chart or have radio play here in the US other than the song listed. So don't come at me, lol.
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Better Than Ezra - Good
Blessid Union of Souls - Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me)
Blind Melon - No Rain
Blur - Song 2
Candlebox - You
Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Del Amitri - Roll to Me
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance (this one is probably stretching it, never heard anything else from them though)
Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
DJ Kool - Let me Clear my Throat
Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever
Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Elastica - Connection
Everything But the Girl - Missing
Go West - The King of Wishful Thinking
Haddaway - What is Love
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
The Heights - How Do You Talk to an Angel
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
La Bouche - Be My Lover
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You
Lou Bega - Mambo #5
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Meat Puppets - Backwater
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Positive K - I Got a Man
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
The Refreshments - Banditos
Republica - Ready to Go
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me
Skee Lo - I Wish
Snow - Informer
Tal Bachman - She's So High
Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes
Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Verve Pipe - The Fresman
White Town - Your Woman
Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker
69 Boyz - Tootsee Roll
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Ad infinitum.
People, please, you only need to paste the link a second time in your post to remedy this. That's all you need to do. Just a raw link, no formatting needed. One second of your time and we can makethe worldthese kind of threads a better place.
Props to the people who already do this.
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1989. Original vocals were samples of Loletta Holloway, the rerecorded vocals were provided by Heather Small, later of M-People (Movin' on up).
It's irrelevant really.
It's irrelevant really.
Haddaway falls off a cliff very quickly after What Is Love. Next someone's gonna say "he had a top 100 hit in 2009!" lmao
What Is Love is like the epitome of a one-hit wonder. It's one of /the/ classic examples. It's honestly not debatable. You can clearly see the follow-up singles coasted solely off his first and then into irrelevancy he went. And swiftly. Everything else is a blip on the radar.
Edit* I just noticed most of the blips later on are just other iterations of What Is Love lmaoo
Oops, you are correct about Tonic. I actually have their other song, but it wasn't in my phone for some reason. I knew they had at least 2 singles that got radio play. Del Amitri is a total blind spot, I've never heard that other song you listed.It's a pretty good list but I've got a couple issues. Even by your standard Del Amitri doesn't count as a OHW. Always the Last to Know was their breakout hit in the US and reached #30 which means a ton of airplay on top 40 stations. It's literally the first song that comes to mind when I hear them mentioned.
And Tonic. Open Up Your Eyes was their first single on that album but it only reached 68. If You Could Only See got to #11
Yeah, I have blind spots left and right for music. I guess my main definition of One Hit Wonder is any band that got radio play in the US on the major 'current' radio stations in the 90's, but only that one song or had one music video on MTV and that was it.I gotta say it anyway. No universe where Dinosaur Jr. belongs on this list, friend. J Mascis is a living guitar god, even in the US. Decidedly indie/underground, but not a OHW.
It's pure facts. The comet trail-effect is the only reason people cared directly after What Is Love. That song is on like every single one-hit wonder list from the '90s for good reason."That he had lots more hits proves he's a one hit wonder" is not the masterstroke of an argument you appear to think it is. 2,6,9,9 is 4 strong hits.
It continues to not be a OHW.
Of all the joke/incorrect answers in this thread this one makes me the most irrationally angry.
Hey, Lovefool is a great song!It continues to not be a OHW.
Of all the joke/incorrect answers in this thread this one makes me the most irrationally angry.
It was, but calling The Cardigans a one hit wonder feels like AN ATTACK ON EVERYTHING THAT I HOLD DEAR.
Fair enough. I know they've sold a bunch of records. It's just the only song that broke through the mainstream in the US was Lovefool.It was, but calling The Cardigans a one hit wonder feels like AN ATTACK ON EVERYTHING THAT I HOLD DEAR.
Lovefool was definitely their biggest song because of the movie tie in, but in the UK at least Erase/Rewind, My Favourite Game and their cover of Talking Heads "Burning Down The House" were all very big. The latter two in particular were those kind of music videos that the music channels would play a ton lolFair enough. I know they've sold a bunch of records. It's just the only song that broke through the mainstream in the US was Lovefool.
Great songs. So many favorites. 90's is when I fell in love with music.I love 80's and 90's 1 hit wonders...
I have a playlist just for US 90's OHW's. I realize that SOME of these bands might be bigger in other countries, but they didn't chart or have radio play here in the US other than the song listed. So don't come at me, lol.
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Better Than Ezra - Good
Blessid Union of Souls - Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me)
Blind Melon - No Rain
Blur - Song 2
Candlebox - You
Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Del Amitri - Roll to Me
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance (this one is probably stretching it, never heard anything else from them though)
Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
DJ Kool - Let me Clear my Throat
Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever
Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Elastica - Connection
Everything But the Girl - Missing
Go West - The King of Wishful Thinking
Haddaway - What is Love
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
The Heights - How Do You Talk to an Angel
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
La Bouche - Be My Lover
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You
Lou Bega - Mambo #5
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Meat Puppets - Backwater
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Positive K - I Got a Man
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand
Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
The Refreshments - Banditos
Republica - Ready to Go
Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me
Skee Lo - I Wish
Snow - Informer
Tal Bachman - She's So High
Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes
Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You
Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Verve Pipe - The Fresman
White Town - Your Woman
Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker
69 Boyz - Tootsee Roll
So I suppose it depends where you are. In the UK, only Possum Kingdom was ever a hit and on the radio.I don't know what my favorite one hit wonder is. What I do know is that about half of the people that have posted in this thread have no idea what a one hit wonder is.
I'll start here since this CD that this was from was actually really good. The CD also achieved platinum status. Tyler, Away, Backslider and I Come From the Water all were played on the radio regularly. A one hit wonder is one song that is played by a person / band and then you never hear anything else from them on the radio ever again.
I'll see Doop and raise you Rotterdam Termination Squad : Poing.
So I suppose it depends where you are. In the UK, only Possum Kingdom was ever a hit and on the radio.
It's not because Tubthumping isn't even a good song. It's awful.
I personally love the whole Toadies discography personally but yeah Possum Kingdom was their only hit here.Yep, I didn't think of that. The Toadies were pretty big here. In fact, I saw them perform Rubberneck in its entirety right after pandemic restrictions were lifted. I guess it's like an American using Blur's Song 2 as an example. While I love Blur, many Americans only associate them by that 1 song. They usually associate Damon Albarn by his other band.
What other hits did they have?In what world is Radiohead a one hit wonder?
Someone also mentioned Toadies earlier in the thread. SMH.