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Post by tekkenguy on Apr 14, 2021 19:35:25 GMT -5
What artists had one hit, disappeared for several years, and suddenly came back with a second hit?
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Post by SabrinaFan on Apr 14, 2021 19:40:53 GMT -5
I feel like Jeremih is the best example of this, between "Birthday Sex" smashing and then he disappeared for a while, then "Down on Me" randomly smashed after years of none of his songs doing anything, then the same happening years later with "Don't Tell 'Em."
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Post by NeRD on Apr 14, 2021 20:01:31 GMT -5
I guess shaggy was technically a two hit wonder with It Wasn't Me and Angel, then came back with a minor hit last year 19 years later?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2021 20:06:23 GMT -5
Definitely Billy Ray Cyrus
1992 - Achy Breaky Heart 2019 - Old Town Road
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2021 20:08:41 GMT -5
I guess shaggy was technically a two hit wonder with It Wasn't Me and Angel, then came back with a minor hit last year 19 years later? Shaggy actually works in a different way. He had a hit called Boombastic in 1995, while the two songs you brought up were both hits in 2001, a six year gap. It'd be like if a one-hit wonder from 2015 suddenly had two #1 hits this year.
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Post by tekkenguy on Apr 14, 2021 21:05:57 GMT -5
How about Mike Posner? He had "Cooler Than Me", disappeared for 5 years, then came back with "I Took a Pill in Ibiza". (Yeah he had a couple of minor hits after "Cooler Than Me", but who remembers them?)
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Post by mkarns on Apr 14, 2021 22:02:11 GMT -5
Rick Springfield: "Speak To the Sky" (1972), "Jessie's Girl" (1981, with many more to follow) Tracy Chapman: "Fast Car" (1988), "Give Me One Reason" (1996) Bonnie Tyler: "It's a Heartache" (1978), "Total Eclipse of the Heart" (1983) The Rembrandts: "Just the Way It Is, Baby" (1991), "I'll Be There For You" (1995, and TV syndication ever after)
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Post by dremolus - solarpunk on Apr 14, 2021 22:18:46 GMT -5
How about Mike Posner? He had "Cooler Than Me", disappeared for 5 years, then came back with "I Took a Pill in Ibiza". (Yeah he had a couple of minor hits after "Cooler Than Me", but who remembers them?) Please Don't Go just went viral on TikTok a few weeks ago lol so no Mike Posner is not a OHW even if I Took a Pill in Ibiza never happened
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Post by irice22 on Apr 15, 2021 1:43:00 GMT -5
Bastille (Pompeii, Happier) Finger Eleven (One Thing, Paralyzer)
Those immediately came to mind.
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Post by salt on Apr 15, 2021 5:26:47 GMT -5
Panic! At The Disco. Had “I write sins, not tragedies” in 2006, sat out the entire Obama administration, then came back with “High Hopes” in 2018. And it wasn’t even a remix that brought them back.
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Post by tekkenguy on Apr 15, 2021 6:23:57 GMT -5
Panic! At The Disco. Had “I write sins, not tragedies” in 2006, sat out the entire Obama administration, then came back with “High Hopes” in 2018. And it wasn’t even a remix that brought them back. Technically they had “Hallelujah” scrape by at #40 in 2015, but yeah they count. How about Gym Class Heroes? “Cupid’s Chokehold”, then nothing for four years, then “Stereo Hearts”.
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Post by Leaf on Apr 15, 2021 21:42:28 GMT -5
Oh hey, this thread again
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Apr 15, 2021 22:50:48 GMT -5
I guess shaggy was technically a two hit wonder with It Wasn't Me and Angel, then came back with a minor hit last year 19 years later? Shaggy actually works in a different way. He had a hit called Boombastic in 1995, while the two songs you brought up were both hits in 2001, a six year gap. It'd be like if a one-hit wonder from 2015 suddenly had two #1 hits this year. I see you George Ezra, Years & Years, Vance Joy.
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Post by mrmike855 on Apr 15, 2021 23:31:14 GMT -5
It's borderline sacrilegious to say this, but Kylie Minogue was like this in America. She was basically a one-hit wonder with her version of "The Locomotion" from 1988-2002 when "Can't Get You Out of My Head" came out. I'm fully aware she was and is a huge star outside America.
One example that I thought was weird is that Billy Ocean had a top 40 hit in 1976 called "Love Really Hurts Without You" and then he had no other hits until "Caribbean Queen" hit #1 in 1984.
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Post by kcdawg13 on Apr 16, 2021 0:33:00 GMT -5
Snow? He had a #1 hit in 1993 with "Informer" and went away for almost 30 years and ended up getting a featuring credit on Daddy Yankee/Katy Perry's 2019 hit "Con Calma," I mean technically it just sampled Informer but he still got a small verse at the end.
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Post by tekkenguy on Apr 16, 2021 1:24:47 GMT -5
Jason Mraz. “The Remedy” was his only hit for a long, long time and then “I’m Yours” started smashing.
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Post by Juanca on Apr 16, 2021 3:21:21 GMT -5
Yeah, although I should be so lucky was a top 30 hit in the hot 100.
I’d also add General Public, with Tenderness being a top 30 in ‘84 and then not having any hot 100 appearance until ‘94 with I’ll Take You There.
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Post by Ginger Spice on Apr 16, 2021 4:00:19 GMT -5
This wasn't that long of time in the grand scheme of things, but I remember thinking Nelly Furtado was a one hit wonder pre-Loose, which turned out to blow her previous success out of the water.
Technically, this wasn't even correct, as "Turn off the Light" actually peaked 4 spots higher on the Hot 100 than "I'm Like a Bird," but I remember several instances on TV pre-Loose where people took a jab at her career, implying that she was only remembered for "I'm Like a Bird."
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Post by johnm1120 on Apr 17, 2021 13:32:43 GMT -5
Enya - Orinoco Flow (1989) and Only Time (2001) Kylie Minogue - The Locomotion (1988) and Can't Get You Out of My Head (2001) Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (1988) and Give Me One Reason (1996) Brenda Russell - So Good So Right (1979) and Piano in the Dark (1988) Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over Til It's Over (1991) and Fly Away (1999) The Corrs - Runaway (1995) and Breathless (2000) Amber - This is Your Night (1996) and Sexual (2000) Susanna Hoffs - My Side of the Bed (1991) and All I Want (1996)
(On Pop at least) LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Love (1997) and Can't Fight the Moonlight (2001)
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Post by Amnesiac on Apr 21, 2021 14:57:22 GMT -5
Aaron Neville is probably the artist with the longest span between their only two Top 40 hits. His first was "Tell It Like It Is" in 1966, and then he waited all the way until 1991 for "Everybody Plays the Fool" to become his second. He's also well known for being a member of The Neville Brothers, but that group never made the Hot 100.
After Neville, I'd say reggae legend Jimmy Cliff had the second longest wait between his only two US Top 40 hits: "Wonderful World, Beautiful People" (1969) and "I Can See Clearly Now" (1993). Cliff's other classics like "Many Rivers to Cross", "The Harder They Come", and "You Can Get It If You Really Want" did not make the Hot 100.
Both Neville and Cliff had to wait until the '90s to have another hit after scoring one in the '60s despite their influential careers, and both times it was with a cover.
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Post by Juanca on Apr 21, 2021 15:51:36 GMT -5
With the caveat that Aaron Neville managed to have a couple of top 20 hits in 1989 featured by Linda Ronstadt: Don’t know much at #2, and All my life at #11
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Post by Groovy on Apr 21, 2021 17:12:24 GMT -5
Lifehouse. Hanging by a Moment was a hit in 2001 and they didn't have another one until 2005 with You and Me.
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Post by Amnesiac on Apr 21, 2021 17:12:32 GMT -5
Yeah, as purely a lead artist, it's Neville. Overall, it's Cliff. Even if you include the Ronstadt duets, Neville going from 1966 to 1989 without a hit is a long time.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2021 17:26:05 GMT -5
Shaggy actually works in a different way. He had a hit called Boombastic in 1995, while the two songs you brought up were both hits in 2001, a six year gap. It'd be like if a one-hit wonder from 2015 suddenly had two #1 hits this year. I see you George Ezra, Years & Years, Vance Joy. in before OMI and Natalie La Rose come back with the song of the summer duet to follow Cheerleader/Somebody
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Post by Amnesiac on Apr 21, 2021 18:06:56 GMT -5
Radiohead waited 15 years between their only two US Top 40 hits: "Creep" (1993) and "Nude" (2008). "Nude" only made the Top 40 because of a special iTunes promotion with stems the bands released for fan remixes.
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Post by Juanca on Apr 21, 2021 23:56:02 GMT -5
Sort of funny and an asterisk: Benny Mardones peaked at #11 in 1980 with Into the Night, his first hit, and then disappeared from the charts only to re-appear in 1989 with the same song, peaking at #20.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2021 0:01:59 GMT -5
Sort of funny and an asterisk: Benny Mardones peaked at #11 in 1980 with Into the Night, his first hit, and then disappeared from the charts only to re-appear in 1989 with the same song, peaking at #20. Isn't that song about him wooing an underaged girl?
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Post by tekkenguy on Apr 22, 2021 8:40:31 GMT -5
How about Robin Thicke? He only had one hit (Lost Without U) for six years, before Blurred Lines started smashing.
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Post by Lost In Musical Reverie on Apr 22, 2021 9:29:03 GMT -5
How about Robin Thicke? He only had one hit (Lost Without U) for six years, before Blurred Lines started smashing. He's also a great example of an artist whose biggest hit was a curse in disguise, as everything related to it came to haunt him afterwards. He lost his long-term relationship, lost his credibility, lost a good chunk of his fanbase, and of course, the disaster that was the commercial performance of "Paula" and the desperate pleading attached to it.
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Post by tekkenguy on Apr 22, 2021 15:19:04 GMT -5
How about Robin Thicke? He only had one hit (Lost Without U) for six years, before Blurred Lines started smashing. He's also a great example of an artist whose biggest hit was a curse in disguise, as everything related to it came to haunt him afterwards. He lost his long-term relationship, lost his credibility, lost a good chunk of his fanbase, and of course, the disaster that was the commercial performance of "Paula" and the desperate pleading attached to it. I think his downfall was less because of Blurred Lines itself than about his behavior afterwards.
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