Mambo number 5 has to be considered. But released in 99 too.
Best of all time though? Come on Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners
That's a good one hit wonder. I would say Black Betty by Ram Jam has to be one of the longest playing one hit wonder songs. Pretty well any sporting event plays it.
Some people might know a few of his other songs, but everyone knows this song, and it even made the big screen in "The Sting" in the 70s, IIRC. And it was written in 1902.
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James Blunt's "Your Beautiful". He might barely qualify as a one hit wonder in North America, as that was his only real hit single (he had another reach #10 in Canada which never even charted in the US), and managed to turn this song into a pair of #1, platinum selling albums.
Amusingly, Blunt's record label refused to allow Weird Al Yankoivic to release his parody of the song on the Straight Outta Lynwood album out of fears it would cement Blunt's status as a one-hit wonder.
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That's a good one hit wonder. I would say Black Betty by Ram Jam has to be one of the longest playing one hit wonder songs. Pretty well any sporting event plays it.
Take on Me is definitely one of my favorite one-hit-wonders (atleast in North America, they had some other hits in Europe). It's also the first music video I remember seeing, and probably still my favorite of all time.
The 80's in general had some great one hit wonders.
01. It’s Raining Men –•– The Weather Girls
02. Macarena –•– Los Del Rio
03. Relax –•– Frankie Goes to Hollywood
04. In A Big Country –•– Big Country
05. 96 Tears –•– ? & the Mysterians
06. Take On Me –•– A-Ha
07. Spirit In The Sky –•– Norman Greenbaum
08. Whip It –•– Devo
09. Harper Valley PTA –•– Jeannie C. Riley
10. I’m Too Sexy –•– Right Said Fred
I know what you mean, but by this definition maybe they are?
While no singular established criterion exists to classify an artist as a one-hit wonder, the frequently-cited technical description of a one-hit wonder in the United States defines a hit single as one which hits the top 40 of the national singles chart, the BillboardHot 100. [wikipedia]
I never liked that Dexy's or Big Country got called One Hit Wonders, when they had a good body of work.
That 'Beautiful Girls' song used to drive me up wall, I'm glad that guy never had another hit. I figured he would be a one-hit wonder, but I also thought Katy Perry and Lady GaGa would be too.
Of course the alltime one-hit wonder is probably Henry VIII.
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First time I heard this song I was at bar in Seattle and right away the dance floor filled up with black people doing the dance moves. Never felt so white in my life.
Edit: I bet that ''Whip Nay-Nay' song will be the 10's version of Soulja Boy. Though I doubt that song is about something as vulgar as ejaculation.
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