Top One Hit Wonders Of The Past 25 Years

[patstop40]

Here’s our list of the top one hit wonders of the past 25 years. We posted the top 30 here. To see the rest visit our site. These artists only hit the pop chart once, some of these songs you may remember, but some you may not. Some songs deserved to make the countdown but didn’t. Here's our list, enjoy. Also check back soon on my site for the top 25 worst songs of the past 25 years, the top 40 number one songs, and the top 20 music video’s of the past 25 years. It’s all leading up to the top 200 singles of the past 25 yaers, which we will post on July 4th. Check out our site here. patstop40.tripod.com/patstop40hot20withpatbuchanan/



1. Nicki French/Total Eclipse Of The Heart
2. Sinead O’Connor/Nothing Compares 2
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3. 4 Non Blondes/What’s Up
4. Everything But The Girl/Missing
5. Billie Myers/Kiss The Rain
6. Nena/99 Luft Balloons
7. Divinyls/I Touch Myself
8. Frankee/FURB
9. Crash Test Dummies/Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm
10. Neneh Cherry/Buffalo Stance
11. Martika/Toy Soldiers
12. Shawn Colvrin/Sunny Came Home
13. Kim Karnes/Bette Davis Eyes
14. Fountains Of Wayne/Stacy’s Mom
15. Poison/Every Rose Has its Thorn
16. Puddle Of Mudd/ Blury
17. T’Pau’Heart & Soul
18. Kajagoogoo/Too Shy
19. Cardigans/Lovefool
20. 2 Unlimited/Get Ready For This
21. Crazy Town/Butterfly
22. Filter/Take a Picture
23. Dionne Farris/I Know
24. Amanda Perez/Angel
25. Billie Ray Martin/In Your Loving Arms
26. Saliva/Rest In Pieces
27. Take That/Back For Good
28. Edie Brickell/What I Am
29. Modern English/I Melt With You
30. Dee Dee Lite/Groove Is In The Heart

[Michael1973]

Kim Carnes? Poison??

[Libra]

Frankee? Saliva?

And Puddle of Mudd had another Top 10 hit after "Blurry".[/font]

[patstop40]

Hello you are right Puddle Of Mudd did have another hit after Blury called She Hates Me. But it never hit Pat's Top 40. Blurry hit our top 10. Although She Hates Me hit the R&R and Billboard charts, it never hit ours so Puddle Of Mudd is a one hit wonder on PT40. As far as I remember Poison only hit the pop chart once hitting No.1 with "Every Rose Has It's Thorn." Thanks for the comments. Talk to ya soon. :)

[mst3k]

patstop40 said:

As far as I remember Poison only hit the pop chart once hitting No.1 with "Every Rose Has It's Thorn."

Um.

www2.uta.edu/hunt/charts/poison.html

Unless of course you're using "pop chart" to mean "Pat's Top 40". :)

[Libra]

EDIT: Aaron beat me to posting the link. [/font]

[BillboardBoy]

Martika had more hits:

More Than You Know
I Feel The Earth Move
Love...Thy Will Be Done

I'd've put KWS and Saigon Kick on the list.

[patstop40]

Wow I definittly aggree with you KWS is a great group, and Please Dont Go almost made the list. But I could only pick the top 60 songs. It's hard to only chose 60. So I decided to add more songs to the list. Im trying to get to 100. But I will add more songs as I go.

If I made a mistake and put a artist on who had another hit Im sorry. I went by the artists who hit my chart. If I made a mistake I will take that artist off and add another. But I still have to say Martika is a one hit wonder. I do remember she had another hit but it never hit my chart. So she is a one hit wonder on my chart. I will be adding more songs to the list soon. I will let you know when I update it. Please also feel free to check out our current top 40.http://patstop40.tripod.com/patstop40hot20withpatbuchanan/

Thanks again Pat

[Slinky]

Hey, Frankee could still have more hits! ;)

[BookJones]

Twilight Zone by  2 Unlimited got to 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 8, 1992.  Stay on for 20 weeks.

Their "Get Ready" Album went Gold in the USA. Later a "Hits Unlimited" came out in the USA.

[billme]

I guess the criteria of one-hit status is under attack from the poster. I could pile on but no need. This thread sounds like it belongs in the personal chart section & everyone will be happy.

[Trebizond]

What about Natalie Imbruglia's Torn? She's a one hit wonder in the US. But maybe she had more than one song chart (but couldn't have been much of a charting).

[Pet Shop Boy]

Neneh Cherry hit #8 on the hot 100 with "Kisses On The Wind"

[johnnywest]

Trebizond said:

What about Natalie Imbruglia's Torn? She's a one hit wonder in the US. But maybe she had more than one song chart (but couldn't have been much of a charting).

She also charted with "Wishing I Was There" and "Wrong Impression."

[BillboardBoy]

What about Lara Fabien?

[620 Soul Train]

I don't like this chart because a number of these songs are not one hit wonders. Second of all the rankings of these songs (to me) are not respectable. I disagree with almost the entire chart. Don't get me wrong 3/4 of the songs on the chart are good ones however, they should not be on that type of chart if that makes any sense. I like VH1's Top 100 One hit wonder chart better.

[620 Soul Train]

Now here's favourite ten one hit wonders:

1.Haircut 100 - Love Plus One (The entire album is off the chain, please check it out on Itunes for only $9.99!, it's called Pelican West!)

2.Spandau Ballet - True (one of the best ballads ever - and yes they did chart again with two other songs, but they are not as memorable. And in the UK, "Gold" and "Chant No.1" were huge hits as well.)

3. JoGo Boxers - Just Got Lucky

4. Aqua - Barbie Girl (absolutely catchy and annoying, but I like it ha ha )

5. Bobbettes - Mr. Lee (I feel sorry for these ladies, they had mad talent! This is from the 1960s in case you did not know)

6. Iron Butterfly - Inagadavida

7. M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume (The UK version is the real deal!)

8. So - Are You Aure

9. Desireless - Voyage Voyage (can't understand a word she is saying for it's in French. Never made it to the US but it was huge one elsewhere around the world! So huge that a Mexican group recorded their version in Spanish however with different lyrics and meaning of the song to my understanding)

10. 52nd Street - Tell Me (How It Feels) - UK R&B group hit the US R&B top ten and the entire Children Of The Night CD was produced by Nick Martinelli (Loose Ends, Five Star, & Stephanie Mills).

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patstop40 said:

Wow I definittly aggree with you KWS is a great group, and Please Dont Go almost made the list. But I could only pick the top 60 songs. It's hard to only chose 60. So I decided to add more songs to the list. Im trying to get to 100. But I will add more songs as I go.

If I made a mistake and put a artist on who had another hit Im sorry. I went by the artists who hit my chart. If I made a mistake I will take that artist off and add another. But I still have to say Martika is a one hit wonder. I do remember she had another hit but it never hit my chart. So she is a one hit wonder on my chart. I will be adding more songs to the list soon. I will let you know when I update it. Please also feel free to check out our current top 40.http://patstop40.tripod.com/patstop40hot20withpatbuchanan/

Thanks again Pat

This said, an artist could have several hits elsewhere but go unnoticed by however this chart is compiled.  Poison, Martika & Kim Carnes (just to name 3) are far from 1-hit wonders elsewhere but may have gone unnoticed by this chart. Which for the purposes of this chart, any artist could be a 1-hit wonder.

[billme]

Always define your meaning of one hit wonder before posting otherwise it leaves your rankings without any merit. Someone in twenty years from today just might call Britney Spears a one hit wonder.

[SPaCeMaN SPiFF]

joshjoel said:

3. JoGo Boxers - Just Got Lucky

i thought they were called "jo boxers"?... unless this is a joke i totally didn't get. LOL.

[tico]

Let me say it from the mountaintop...AQUA IS NOT A ONE-HIT WONDER!!!!!!

[billme]

tico said:

Let me say it from the mountaintop...AQUA IS NOT A ONE-HIT WONDER!!!!!!

& Barbie Girl isn't their highest ranking song on the R&R charts.

[Deleted]

Using the definition, "an artist may have had other hits but they didn't show up on my chart, therefore they are 1-hit wonders" could mean:

'Like A Virgin' is the only Madonna song I ever liked, therefore Madonna is a one-hit wonder

[Chaotic Kissed A Pinkch!]

Len - Steal My Sunshine

[johnnywest]

Neon Moonlight - Rosco Martinez

[BillboardBoy]

I like "Fine Fine Day" by Tony Carey.

[johnnywest]

How about Jeannie Ortega f/Papoose?