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Old 13-07-2014, 11:26
starry_rune
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Check out the songs in this DS article

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/fe...oJTaAgt1Levs6z

Do you remember any of them? Does anyone really know what a one hit wonder is anymore? Do most artists not have an "average" follow up to an exceptionally successful single.

I liked "Another Day" thought it was a good hit. But why does it never get played much?

Even Chesney Hawkes had other songs!
http://youtu.be/pT8k5s_4opw?t=28s
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Old 13-07-2014, 18:46
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Check out the songs in this DS article

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/fe...oJTaAgt1Levs6z

Do you remember any of them? Does anyone really know what a one hit wonder is anymore? Do most artists not have an "average" follow up to an exceptionally successful single.
Yeah, I do remember quite a few of those songs.... mainly because they *were* hits and most of the associated "one-hit wonders" were nothing of the sort.

But perhaps "4 One-Hit Wonders and another 7 Artists wrongly remembered as such because the moderately successful followup(s) were forgettable rehashes of their big hit" sounds less catchy?

No, I'm not even holding the writer to the "must have one song chart and nothing else ever" standard. Realistically, if you're at #1 for ten weeks but the followup reaches (say) #29 for a week before exiting the charts, you're still a "one hit wonder". But if the followup reaches #3.... no you're not.

- "Scatman's World" reached #10. (Remember it)
- Rednex's "Old Pop in Old Oak" reached #12. (Remember this)
- Eiffel 65's "Move Your Body" reached #3 !!! (Vaguely remember this after seeing it)
- Whigfield's "Another Day" reached #7 as did her next single. (Ditto previous)
- Vanilla Ice- the follow-up mentioned reached #10
- Pato Banton... pushing it here. Though he never troubled the top 10 again, three of his next four charting singles reached the top 20 (#15, #15, #36 and #14)
- MC Hammer... well, by this point even the article acknowledges that he had other hits, and it's really about artists who only have one song people remember.... Hammer had 3 other top 10 hits (including the one discussed), and another 4 reached the top 20. Enough said?

As I said, these weren't all great songs, and many are forgotten- some justly so- because they were pretty similar to their previous hit. Eespecially the first four entries.

But one-hit wonders? Nope.

Disclaimer: All chart positions looked up in the Guinness Book of Hit Singles. I'm not *that* much of a nerd that I know all that off the top of my head.

Funny that they didn't include Hawkes because he *is* a legitimate example of a 90s one-hit wonder, and well-remembered as such!

Yeah, he had other songs, but none of them did anything of note- the followup you mentioned only reached #27 (even though I remember hearing it at least once on the radio at the time), and nothing after that got into the top 40.
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