The music industry describes an artist known primarily for a sole hit single as a "One-hit Wonder."
The generally accepted criterion for an artist to receive this classification in the U.S. is a hit song which reached the top 40 in the national singles chart known as the Billboard Hot 100.
Other factors, such as success overseas, hit songs on specific genre charts, critical acclaim, or general influence in the industry, are not taken into account.
During the 1990s some 327 artists managed to get one hit song into the Billboard Hot 100. An essential requirement for inclusion was that the song must have been released as a physical single, and was not, for example, simply an album track.
Our SeekiSearch team chose its favorite 25 songs from the huge selection of One-hit Wonders available, and here they are:
The Impression That I Get – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Feed The Tree – Belly
What Is Love – Haddaway
Walking In Memphis – Marc Cohn
Legend Of A Cowgirl – Imani Coppola
Good Vibrations – Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch
Steal My Sunshine – Len
Unbelievable – EMF
Informer - Snow
Jump – Kris Kross
No Rain – Blind Melon
Rump Shaker – Wreckx-N-Effect
Cotton Eye Joe – Rednex
The Humpty Dance – Digital Underground
You Get What You Give – New Radicals
One Of Us – Joan Osborne
Jump Around – House Of Pain
Barely Breathing – Duncan Sheik
Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
Closing Time – Semisonic
Tubthumping – Chumbawamba
Macarena – Los Del Rio
Rico Suave – Gerardo
I'm Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
Baby Got Back – Sir Mix-A-Lot
Do you remember any of these One-hit Wonders?
Which is YOUR favorite, or do you have other songs you would prefer?
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