Editing One-hit wonder (section)

==Music industry==
In ''The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders,'' music journalist Wayne Jancik defines a one-hit wonder as "an act that has won a position on [the] national, pop, Top 40 [[record chart]] just once."<ref>{{cite book |last=Jancik |first=Wayne |date=1998 |title=The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders |location=New York |publisher=Billboard Books |page=IX |isbn=9780823076222}}</ref> ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine defines a U.S. one-hit wonder as an "artist that cracks the top 40 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and never makes it back to that position."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Leight |first=Elias |date=2023-03-28 |title=Is TikTok Actually Creating More One-Hit Wonders? |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-on-tiktok-more-one-hit-wonders/ |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=2023-07-31}}</ref>

This formal definition can include acts with greater success outside their lone pop hit and who are not typically considered one-hit wonders,<ref>{{cite magazine |ref={{harvid|Melis|2016}} |last=Melis |first=Matt |author2=''Consequence of Sound'' staff |title=The 100 Best One-Hit Wonder Songs |magazine=[[Consequence of Sound]] |date=20 September 2016 |url=https://consequence.net/2016/09/the-100-best-one-hit-wonder-songs |access-date=6 March 2019 |archive-date=5 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305161213/https://consequence.net/2016/09/the-100-best-one-hit-wonder-songs/ |url-status=live }}</ref> while at the same time excluding acts who have multiple hits which have been overshadowed by one [[signature song]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Mann |first=Brent |title=99 Red Balloons ...and 100 Other All-Time Great One-Hit Wonders |publisher=Citadel Press |date=2003 |isbn=9780806525167}}</ref> or those performers who never hit the top 40, but had exactly one song achieve mainstream popularity in some other fashion (that is, a "[[turntable hit]]" or a song that was ineligible for the top-40 charts).<ref>{{cite web |last=Rahsheeda |first=Ali |date=2 May 2013 |title=100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '80s |publisher=VH1 |url=https://www.vh1.com/news/58qjan/100-greatest-one-hit-wonders-of-the-80s |access-date=6 March 2019 |archive-date=30 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730134511/http://www.vh1.com/news/1243/100-greatest-one-hit-wonders-of-the-80s/ |url-status=live }}</ref>