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Joey Levine, American session singer best known for his prolific work in the bubblegum pop and commercial jingle genera, who had recorded hits for the Ohio Express (' Yummy Yummy Yummy'), also sang hits for the Third Rail, the Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus ('Quick Joey Small') and Reunion (' Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)'). Multiple appearances Įnglish musician Tony Burrows sang the lead vocal on five one-hit wonders: Edison Lighthouse's ' Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)' (February 1970) White Plains' ' My Baby Loves Lovin'' (March 1970) the Pipkins' ' Gimme Dat Ding' (April 1970) the First Class' ' Beach Baby' (July 1974) and ' United We Stand' (1970) by the first incarnation of the Brotherhood of Man. Ĭhris Molanphy, a pop chart analyst and writer for Slate and The Village Voice, wrote that an artist can only be seen as a 'one-hit wonder' if they have never had a second Billboard top 10 hit, if any subsequent top 40 singles were released within six months of their first big hit, and if the artist has not had three or more top 10 or Platinum albums. Entertainment Weekly mentions prolific artist Frank Zappa as a one-hit wonder because his only Top 40 hit was ' Valley Girl' in 1982. Consequence of Sound editor Matt Melis lists Beck (' Loser') and the Grateful Dead (' Touch of Grey') as 'technically' being one-hit wonders despite their large bodies of work.

On the other hand, some artists with long, successful careers have been identified as one-hit wonders by virtue of having reached the Top 40 of the Hot 100 only once. In another case, Scottish rockers Simple Minds followed their big hit ' Don't You (Forget About Me)' (appearing in the opening and closing scenes of the film The Breakfast Club) with ' Alive and Kicking' which peaked at number 3 in the US, ' Sanctify Yourself' which peaked at number 14 in the US, and ' All the Things She Said' which peaked at number 28 in the US, yet the band is remembered primarily for the first song. As an example, English-born singer Albert Hammond enjoyed success with ' It Never Rains in Southern California' (1972) rising to number 5 in the US, but his follow-up single, ' I'm a Train' was dismissed by Mann as 'totally forgotten' even though it charted at number 31 in 1974. ĭisc jockey and music writer Brent Mann points out how some artists have been called a 'one-hit wonder' despite having other charting singles in these cases, one signature song so overshadows the rest of the artist's discography that only that song remains familiar to later audiences. (Eponymous bands are generally not separated thus Charlie Daniels is not counted as a one-hit wonder for ' Uneasy Rider' and the hits of the Charlie Daniels Band are credited to him.) įred Bronson, a journalist and former writer for Billboard magazine, in his book Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits, uses the criterion that an artist is ineligible to be categorized as a 'one-hit wonder' if they have a second song listed on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Music reviewers and journalists sometimes describe a musical artist as a one-hit wonder, based on their professional assessment of chart success, sales figures, and fame.įor the purpose of his book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, music journalist Wayne Jancik defines a one-hit wonder as 'an act that has won a position on Billboard 's national, pop, Top 40 just once.' In his definition of an 'act', Jancik distinguishes between a solo performer and a group performance (thus, for example, Roger Daltrey's ' Without Your Love' is counted despite Daltrey's numerous hits as frontman for the Who), and a number of musicians appear multiple times, either with multiple bands or as a member of a band and as a solo artist. This article contains artists known primarily for one hit song in the United States, who are regarded as one-hit wonders by at least two sources in media even though the artist may have had multiple hits abroad. The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as ' Take On Me' by A-ha in the United States, which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).

A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit.

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