Biggest 00s/10s one hit wonder songs

[jax94]

Which song do you think is the biggest one hit wonder song of the 2000s/2010s? Vanessa Carlton's a thousand miles comes to mind. It's frequently referenced in pop culture to this day. For the 10s id say either STIYTK or CMM so far.

[tekkenguy]

Even though he had another top 10 hit, PSY will be remembered as a one-hit wonder. Same with Carly Rae.

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Jun 23, 2015 14:10:41 GMT -5 jax94 said:

Which song do you think is the biggest one hit wonder song of the 2000s/2010s? Vanessa Carlton's a thousand miles comes to mind. It's frequently referenced in pop culture to this day. For the 10s id say either STIYTK or CMM so far.

CMM WASN'T A ONE HIT WONDER!!!!!!!

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Jun 23, 2015 14:58:14 GMT -5 tekkenguy said:

Even though he had another top 10 hit, PSY will be remembered as a one-hit wonder. Same with Carly Rae.

That doesn't make them one hit wonders. It makes the people calling them that wrong.

[bornfearless2000]

Daniel Powter - Bad Day

Carly has had some moderate hits after Call Me Maybe, so i won't call her one hit wonder. Same goes to PSY, Gentleman was also quite a hit.

[surfy]

Vanessa Carlton is technically not a one hit wonder, as her follow up to ATM hit #30 on the Hot 100.

"The Reason" - Hoobastank
"The Middle" - Jimmy Eat World
"Bad Day" - Daniel Powter
"Bulletproof" - La Roux
"Glad You Came" - The Wanted
"Brokenhearted" - Karmin
"Somebody That I Used to Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra

Of the 2000s I would say Daniel is the biggest one hit wonder, and 2010s belongs to Gotye so far.

[Deleted]

The reality is when it comes down to it, PSY and Carly Rae Jepsen will be remembered as one-hit wonders even though they're technically not, because they'll be mostly identified and attached to their signature songs, and no one is going to remember the other songs. Even though "Good Time" can tend to still be overplayed, Carly will always be only associated with "Call Me Maybe". People can argue and debate it all they want, but the bottom line is the general audience have pretty much already decided to tag both PSY and Carly with the "one-hit wonder" label. To me, I would consider them more like just novelty artists than one-hit wonders really.

[allow that]

Jun 30, 2015 4:11:50 GMT -5 surfy said:

"The Reason" - Hoobastank
"The Middle" - Jimmy Eat World

Jimmy Eat World has had multiple #1's at Alternative and were one of the overall biggest bands of the mid 00's so it feels weird seeing them here. Hoobastank also had some big Alternative hits, though not nearly to the extent of J.E.W.

"Brokenhearted" - Karmin

No hit wonder :giggle"

Of the 2000s I would say Daniel is the biggest one hit wonder, and 2010s belongs to Gotye so far.

I'd agree with this.

There's also a plethora of reggae/soca artists who've only hit it big once:

Wayne Wonder - "No Letting Go"
Nina Sky - "Move Your Body"
Kevin Lyttle - "Turn Me On"

And Canadian reggae too!

Magic! - "Rude!"

[Linnethia Monique]

For the 2000s I would easily give that title to Daniel Powter. How do you go from your debut single being #1 for 5 weeks in the US and massive worldwide success to just nothing the next single. Never charting again on the Hot 100 must sting too.

[divasummer]

I hate when I see Biggest One Hit Wonder specials and they include and artist who had a second moderate hit.
A lot of time they scraped the Top 10 too.
Two I can remember that people usually mention are Marky Mark and Kriss Kross. I believe Marky's 2nd single hit the Top 10 and then he had another Top 15-30 hit.
Kriss Kross also did ok with "Warm It Up Kris" I think it hit the Top 20.
It drives me nuts when people mention Vanilla Ice because his follow up single to "Ice Ice Baby" was a Top 10 Hit.

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Jun 30, 2015 4:11:50 GMT -5 surfy said:

Vanessa Carlton is technically not a one hit wonder, as her follow up to ATM hit #30 on the Hot 100.

"The Reason" - Hoobastank
"The Middle" - Jimmy Eat World
"Bad Day" - Daniel Powter
"Bulletproof" - La Roux
"Glad You Came" - The Wanted
"Brokenhearted" - Karmin
"Somebody That I Used to Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra

Of the 2000s I would say Daniel is the biggest one hit wonder, and 2010s belongs to Gotye so far.

I would say the 2010s belongs to Magic! actually. Gotye's followup to STIUTK spent 1 week on the Hot 100 at #96. Altho I have heard Magic!'s "No Way No" a few times on the radio recently so this may change.

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Jun 30, 2015 8:03:54 GMT -5 @billboardfan1 said:

The reality is when it comes down to it, PSY and Carly Rae Jepsen will be remembered as one-hit wonders even though they're technically not, because they'll be mostly identified and attached to their signature songs, and no one is going to remember the other songs. Even though "Good Time" can tend to still be overplayed, Carly will always be only associated with "Call Me Maybe". People can argue and debate it all they want, but the bottom line is the general audience have pretty much already decided to tag both PSY and Carly with the "one-hit wonder" label. To me, I would consider them more like just novelty artists than one-hit wonders really.

The general audience decided to tag those two (and Gotye) with the "one-hit wonder" label basically the second their songs got popular...

[M1tchD]

Hmm. No "Stacy's Mom" in this thread yet.

[tekkenguy]

Jun 30, 2015 14:28:41 GMT -5 redrooster said:

Jun 30, 2015 4:11:50 GMT -5 surfy said:

Vanessa Carlton is technically not a one hit wonder, as her follow up to ATM hit #30 on the Hot 100.

"The Reason" - Hoobastank
"The Middle" - Jimmy Eat World
"Bad Day" - Daniel Powter
"Bulletproof" - La Roux
"Glad You Came" - The Wanted
"Brokenhearted" - Karmin
"Somebody That I Used to Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra

Of the 2000s I would say Daniel is the biggest one hit wonder, and 2010s belongs to Gotye so far.

I would say the 2010s belongs to Magic! actually. Gotye's followup to STIUTK spent 1 week on the Hot 100 at #96. Altho I have heard Magic!'s "No Way No" a few times on the radio recently so this may change.

By that criteria, Mark Ronson would be the biggest, given Uptown Funk was #1 for 14 weeks to Rude's 6.

[Linnethia Monique]

Jun 30, 2015 16:54:24 GMT -5 M1tchD said:

Hmm. No "Stacy's Mom" in this thread yet.

It didn't even crack Top 20 on the Hot 100 so I wouldn't put it in contention for the Biggest One Hit Wonder... singular.

[tekkenguy]

Jun 30, 2015 17:13:16 GMT -5 Linnethia Monique said:

Jun 30, 2015 16:54:24 GMT -5 M1tchD said:

Hmm. No "Stacy's Mom" in this thread yet.

It didn't even crack Top 20 on the Hot 100 so I wouldn't put it in contention for the Biggest One Hit Wonder... singular.

Blind Melon's "No Rain" barely cracked the Top 20, New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" fizzled out at 36, Modern English's "I Melt With You" didn't even make top 40, but culturally they're considered bigger one hit wonders than even some acts who hit #1 (i.e Alan O'Day, Gregory Abbott, Patti Austin, Ini Kamoze).

[Linnethia Monique]

Jun 30, 2015 17:34:03 GMT -5 tekkenguy said:

Jun 30, 2015 17:13:16 GMT -5 Linnethia Monique said:

It didn't even crack Top 20 on the Hot 100 so I wouldn't put it in contention for the Biggest One Hit Wonder... singular.

Blind Melon's "No Rain" barely cracked the Top 20, New Radicals' "You Get What You Give" fizzled out at 36, Modern English's "I Melt With You" didn't even make top 40, but culturally they're considered bigger one hit wonders than even some acts who hit #1 (i.e Alan O'Day, Gregory Abbott, Patti Austin, Ini Kamoze).

And none of those are in contention to being THE biggest one hit wonder song.

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Jun 30, 2015 16:59:54 GMT -5 tekkenguy said:

Jun 30, 2015 14:28:41 GMT -5 redrooster said:

I would say the 2010s belongs to Magic! actually. Gotye's followup to STIUTK spent 1 week on the Hot 100 at #96. Altho I have heard Magic!'s "No Way No" a few times on the radio recently so this may change.

By that criteria, Mark Ronson would be the biggest, given Uptown Funk was #1 for 14 weeks to Rude's 6.

True. But Uptown Funk was more recent than Rude or STIUTK so we need to give Mark some more time and see if he can get another song on the Hot 100. I could see Daffodils doing it. Also, I think people associate that song with Bruno Mars more so than Mark Ronson.

[EvanJ]

On the Billboard Hot 100, James Blunt had a Number 1 with "You're Beautiful" and his next biggest hit was Number 66 for "Goodbye My Lover." The Lumineers reached Number 3 with "Ho Hey" and their next biggest hit was Number 70 for "Stubborn Love."

I agree with user allow that about Jimmy Eat World and Hoobastank, who each had enough success on Alternative not to be one hit wonders. A separate topic could be for artists who had many hits on one format but are one hit wonders on another format.

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Jul 13, 2015 19:11:19 GMT -5 EvanJ said:

On the Billboard Hot 100, James Blunt had a Number 1 with "You're Beautiful" and his next biggest hit was Number 66 for "Goodbye My Lover." The Lumineers reached Number 3 with "Ho Hey" and their next biggest hit was Number 70 for "Stubborn Love."

I agree with user allow that about Jimmy Eat World and Hoobastank, who each had enough success on Alternative not to be one hit wonders. A separate topic could be for artists who had many hits on one format but are one hit wonders on another format.

Daniel Powter had a #1 with "Bad Day" and didn't even make the Hot 100 ever again. That's way more of a 1HW than James Blunt.

[Gary]

In my opinion, too early to call much of anything from the 10s a "one hit wonder"

However, from the 00s - official list from Billboard
(definition: first single top 10, nothing followed that hit top 25)

1. Bad Day
2. Lean Back
3. Butterfly
4. This Is Why I'm Hot
5. Laffy Taffy
6. You're Beautiful
7. Crazy
8. Hit Em Up Style
9. Inside Your Heavan
10. He Loves U Not
11. Tipsy
12. Me & U
13. Mambo No 5
14. My Baby
15 Never Leave You - Uh Ooh, Uh Oooh!
16. Lips Of An Angel
17. Turn Me On
18. Damn
19. Where'd You Go
20 Gotta Tell You
21. Hotel
22. I Try
23. Wherever You Will Go
24. A Thousad Miles
25. No More
26. Blue
27. Throw Some D's
28 What's Left Of Me
29. Oops (Oh My)
30. A Bay Bay
31. Chain Hang Low
32. It Feels So Good
33. Heaven
34. Get Over Yourself
35. Listen To Your Heart
36. Addictive
37. 24/7
38. Never Had A Dream Come True
39. Shoulder Lean

[SPRΞΞ]

Butterfly was so awesome. That tattooed guy in the video was so hot.

[Fat Ass Kelly Price]

You guys get so stuck on stats. Public perception (and I suppose some recurrent play) determines these things.

Who cares if these people had minor or even kind of sizeable hits after their huge hit? The fact of the matter is that their huge hit overshadows everything they've done. They're essentially a one hit wonder (regardless if they had a song peak at #whatever). HELL! The huge hit probably overshadowed the followup minor hits as they were charting.

Also, a Hot 100 peak doesn't tell everything. There's so much more to account for when determining the BIGGEST one hit wonder than one metric that is really a product of the time when a song was charting (re: chart rules).

[Gary]

Common themes in one hit wonder threads

-everyone has a different definition
- no one will agree with you if you have a defintion different from theirs



I agree with the stats comment to a point, if an artists followup to a big hit stalls at #41, does that mean they are a 'one hit wonder' because it did not peak at #40? On the onther hand, It probably is a hit though if hit #2 got into the top 10.

I don't agree that "public perception" should define it. At least here "public perception" is defined by the person posting it.

Artists have been classified as one-hit wonders here many times while they are still #1 with their first hit, because individual perception says they won't get another hit.

Other times, because an individual here says hit #2 and #3 are not "memorable" in their minds, then those don't count as hits and will still keep the one-hit wonder label.

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Jul 17, 2015 9:39:05 GMT -5 Gary said:

Common themes in one hit wonder threads

-everyone has a different definition
- no one will agree with you if you have a defintion different from theirs



I agree with the stats comment to a point, if an artists followup to a big hit stalls at #41, does that mean they are a 'one hit wonder' because it did not peak at #40? On the onther hand, It probably is a hit though if hit #2 got into the top 10.

I don't agree that "public perception" should define it. At least here "public perception" is defined by the person posting it.

Artists have been classified as one-hit wonders here many times while they are still #1 with their first hit, because individual perception says they won't get another hit.

Other times, because an individual here says hit #2 and #3 are not "memorable" in their minds, then those don't count as hits and will still keep the one-hit wonder label.

I agree. And there will always be acts like Sisqo who had one #1 hit but are known as one hit wonders for some other song that DIDN'T go to #1.

[thisdudetroyj]

Daniel Powter - Bad Day
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk!
MAGIC! - Rude
Shop Boyz - Party Like A Rockstar
Silento - Watch Me

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Just going to drop these here:

www.buzzfeed.com/kaylayandoli/2000s-one-hit-wonder-trivia-quiz

www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/two-hit-wonders

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Do we count Gnarls Barkley as a one hit wonder if CeeLo went on to have hits under his own name?

Same with Lean Back since Remy Ma and Fat Joe also had hits but not under Terror Squad

[Fire]

a thousand miles, stiutk, watch me, and shut up and dance (unless we count one foot as a hit)

[Lost In Musical Reverie]

If I have to choose one for each decade, it's got to be Daniel Powter and Gotye.

How do you go from having the #1 song of the year to subsequent singles only scraping the bottom of the charts for one week (or in Daniel's case, not charting at all)?

You can't get more one-hit wonder than that.