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. 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 list contains artists known primarily for one hit song in the United States, who are described as one-hit wonders by the media even though they may actually have had multiple hits. 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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