Editing One-hit wonder (section)

==Lists of one-hit wonders==
===Australia===
===="20 to 1: One Hit Wonders"====
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In 2006, the Australian series ''[[20 to 1]]'' aired the episode "20 to 1: One Hit Wonders", a list of songs that had been the only one by that artist to have success in Australia.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! # !! Title !! Performer !! Year
|-
| align=right | 1 || "[[My Sharona]]" || [[The Knack]] || 1979
|-
| align=right | 2 || "[[Born to Be Alive (song)|Born to Be Alive]]" || [[Patrick Hernandez]] || 1979
|-
| align=right | 3 || "[[Video Killed the Radio Star]]" || [[The Buggles]] || 1979
|-
| align=right | 4 || "[[Turning Japanese]]" || [[The Vapors]] || 1980
|-
| align=right | 5 || "[[Funkytown]]" || [[Lipps Inc.]] || 1980
|-
| align=right | 6 || "[[Come on Eileen]]" || [[Dexys Midnight Runners]] || 1982
|-
| align=right | 7 || "[[Spirit in the Sky]]" || [[Norman Greenbaum]] || 1969
|-
| align=right | 8 || "{{Lang|de|[[99 Luftballons]]|italic=no}}" ||[[Nena (band)|Nena]] || 1983
|-
| align=right | 9 || "[[Don't Worry, Be Happy]]" || [[Bobby McFerrin]] || 1988
|-
| align=right | 10 || "[[Pass the Dutchie]]" || [[Musical Youth]] || 1982
|-
| align=right | 11 || "[[Rockin' Robin (song)|Rockin' Robin]]" || [[Bobby Day]] || 1958
|-
| align=right | 12 || "[[Slice of Heaven]]" || [[Dave Dobbyn]] and [[Herbs (band)|Herbs]] || 1986
|-
| align=right | 13 || "[[Counting the Beat]]" || [[The Swingers]] || 1981
|-
| align=right | 14 || "[[Tubthumping]]" || [[Chumbawamba]] || 1997
|-
| align=right | 15 || "[[I'll Be Gone (Spectrum song)|I'll Be Gone]]" || [[Spectrum (band)|Spectrum]] || 1971
|-
| align=right | 16 || "[[Mickey (Toni Basil song)|Mickey]]" || [[Toni Basil]] || 1982
|-
| align=right | 17 || "[[Achy Breaky Heart]]" || [[Billy Ray Cyrus]] || 1992
|-
| align=right | 18 || "[[Venus (Shocking Blue song)|Venus]]" || [[Shocking Blue]] || 1969
|-
| align=right | 19 || "[[Mambo No. 5#Lou Bega version|Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)]]" || [[Lou Bega]] || 1999
|-
| align=right | 20 || "[[Tainted Love#Soft Cell version (1981)|Tainted Love]]" || [[Soft Cell]] || 1981
|}

===Ireland===
{{See also|List of one-hit wonders in Ireland}}

===New Zealand===
====C4's ''UChoose40'': One Hit Wonders====
In September 2006, [[New Zealand]]'s terrestrial music channel, [[C4 (New Zealand)|C4]], aired an episode dedicated to "One Hit Wonders" on the weekly theme-based chart show, ''UChoose40'', where the chart was ranked entirely by viewer's votes from the website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://onehittwonders.blogspot.com/|title=One Hit Wonders|last=Life|date=14 November 2009|website=onehittwonders.blogspot.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212232305/http://onehittwonders.blogspot.com/|archive-date=12 February 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=42379 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-03-23 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407200017/http://www.australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=42379 |archive-date=7 April 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The top ten songs were ranked as follows:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! # !! Title !! Performer !! Year
|-
| align=right | 1 || "[[Teenage Dirtbag]]" || [[Wheatus]] || 2000
|-
| align=right | 2 || "[[How Bizarre (song)|How Bizarre]]" || [[OMC (band)|OMC]] || 1996
|-
| align=right | 3 || "[[Because I Got High]]" || [[Afroman]] || 2001
|-
| align=right | 4 || "[[Ice Ice Baby]]" || [[Vanilla Ice]] || 1990
|-
| align=right | 5 || "[[Eye of the Tiger]]" || [[Survivor (band)|Survivor]] || 1982
|-
| align=right | 6 || "[[Tubthumping]]" || [[Chumbawamba]] || 1997
|-
| align=right | 7 || "[[My Sharona]]" || [[The Knack]] || 1979
|-
| align=right | 8 || "[[Video Killed the Radio Star]]" || [[The Buggles]] || 1979
|-
| align=right | 9 || "[[Who Let the Dogs Out?]]" || [[Baha Men]] || 2000
|-
| align=right | 10 || "[[I Touch Myself]]" || [[Divinyls]] || 1991
|}

===United Kingdom===
{{main|List of one-hit wonders on the UK Singles Chart}}
The [[British Hit Singles & Albums|Guinness Book of British Hit Singles]] contains a list of ‘one hit wonders’ from 1979 to 2001 which comprises acts with their only Top 75 charting record being a number one hit. 

====One-Hit Wonders from the 1980s====
Classic Pop magazine's list<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.classicpopmag.com/2019/02/top-40-80s-one-hit-wonders/|title=Top 40 80s One-Hit Wonders|date=19 February 2019|access-date=9 February 2021|archive-date=20 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120165645/https://www.classicpopmag.com/2019/02/top-40-80s-one-hit-wonders/|url-status=live}}</ref> only includes acts who made the UK's Top 40 (as compiled by [[Gallup (company)|Gallup]]) once only in their careers and does not include acts which feature members from other successful bands from the 1980s. The top ten is as follows:

{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
#  "The First Picture of You" – [[The Lotus Eaters (band)|The Lotus Eaters]]
#  "Twilight Café" – [[Susan Fassbender]]
#  "[[Big in Japan (Alphaville song)|Big in Japan]]" – [[Alphaville (band)|Alphaville]]
#  "Broken Land" – [[The Adventures]]
#  "[[Waiting for a Train (Flash and the Pan song)|Waiting for a Train]]" – [[Flash And The Pan]]
#  "[[Waiting for a Star to Fall]]" – [[Boy Meets Girl (band)|Boy Meets Girl]]
#  "[[99 Luftballons|99 Red Balloons]]" – [[Nena (band)|Nena]]
#  "Let My People Go-Go" – [[The Rainmakers (band)|The Rainmakers]]
#  "[[The Captain of Her Heart]]" – [[Double (band)|Double]]
#  "Kissing with Confidence" – [[Will Powers]]
}}

====One-Hit Wonders from the 1990s====
In 2020, [[Absolute Radio 90s]] compiled a list of 'the 20 greatest one-hit wonders of the 1990s' as part of their 10th birthday celebrations; the list was as follows (listed in alphabetical order by artist):<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://planetradio.co.uk/absolute-radio/music/news/greatest-one-hit-wonders-90s/|title=The 20 greatest one-hit wonders of the 1990s|website=Absolute Radio|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=4 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204034534/https://planetradio.co.uk/absolute-radio/music/news/greatest-one-hit-wonders-90s/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* "[[Spaceman (Babylon Zoo song)|Spaceman]]" – [[Babylon Zoo]] (1996)
* "[[Wake Up Boo!]]" – [[The Boo Radleys]] (1995)
* "[[Drinking in L.A.]]" – [[Bran Van 3000]] (1997)
* "[[Bitch (Meredith Brooks song)|Bitch]]" – [[Meredith Brooks]] (1997)
* "[[Would I Lie to You? (Charles & Eddie song)|Would I Lie To You?]]" – [[Charles & Eddie]] (1992)
* "[[Brimful of Asha]]" (Norman Cook Remix) – [[Cornershop]] (1997)
* "[[Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm]]" – [[Crash Test Dummies]] (1993)
* "[[What's Up? (4 Non Blondes song)|What's Up?]]" – [[4 Non Blondes]] (1993)
* "[[There She Goes (The La's song)|There She Goes]]" – [[The La's]] (1990)
* "[[Steal My Sunshine]]" – [[Len (band)|Len]] (1999)
* "[[Wear Sunscreen#Baz Luhrmann version|Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)]]" – [[Baz Luhrmann]] (1999)
* "[[The Impression That I Get]]" – [[The Mighty Mighty Bosstones]] (1997)
* "[[Flat Beat]]" – [[Mr. Oizo]] (1999)
* "[[You Get What You Give (song)|You Get What You Give]]" – [[New Radicals]] (1998)
* "[[You're Not Alone (Olive song)|You’re Not Alone]]" – [[Olive (band)|Olive]] (1997)
* "[[How Bizarre (song)|How Bizarre]]" – [[OMC (band)|OMC]] (1995)
* "[[In the Meantime (Spacehog song)|In The Meantime]]" – [[Spacehog]] (1996)
* "[[Two Princes]]" – [[Spin Doctors]] (1993)
* "[[Inside (Stiltskin song)|Inside]]" – [[Stiltskin]] (1994)
* "[[Your Woman]]" – [[White Town]] (1997)

In addition to these one-hit wonders, the ''[[NME]]'' also recognised the following hits in their one-hit wonders feature from 2014:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/photos/90s-one-hit-wonders-that-ll-make-you-feel-nostalgic-where-are-they-now-1404773|title=90s One-Hit Wonders That'll Make You Feel Nostalgic - Where Are They Now?|website=[[NME]]|date=10 December 2014|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=11 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511185822/https://www.nme.com/photos/90s-one-hit-wonders-that-ll-make-you-feel-nostalgic-where-are-they-now-1404773|url-status=live}}</ref>
* "[[Sleeping Satellite]]" – [[Tasmin Archer]] (1992)
* "[[No Rain]]" – [[Blind Melon]] (1993)
* "[[Tubthumping]]" – [[Chumbawamba]] (1997)
* "[[Save Tonight]]" – [[Eagle-Eye Cherry]] (1997)
* "[[Groove Is in the Heart]]" – [[Deee-Lite]] (1990)
* "[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (song)|Breakfast at Tiffany’s]]" – [[Deep Blue Something]] (1995)
* "[[I Touch Myself]]" – [[Divinyls]] (1990)
* "[[To Earth with Love]]" – [[Gay Dad]] (1999)
* "[[Three Little Pigs (song)|Three Little Pigs]]" – [[Green Jellÿ]] (1992)
* "[[Glorious (Andreas Johnson song)|Glorious]]" – [[Andreas Johnson]] (1999)
* "[[Here Comes the Hotstepper]]" – [[Ini Kamoze]] (1994)
* "[[Jump (Kris Kross song)|Jump]]" – [[Kris Kross]] (1992)
* "[[Stay (I Missed You)|Stay]]" – [[Lisa Loeb]] (1994)
* "[[Can You Dig It (The Mock Turtles song)|Can You Dig It?]]" – [[The Mock Turtles]] (1991)
* "[[One of Us (Joan Osborne song)|One Of Us]]" – [[Joan Osborne]] (1995)
* "[[I'll Be There for You (The Rembrandts song)|I’ll Be There For You]]" – [[The Rembrandts]] (1995)
* "[[Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)]]" – [[Rozalla]] (1991)
* "[[Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)]]" – [[Scatman John]] (1994)
* "[[Closing Time (Semisonic song)|Closing Time]]" – [[Semisonic]] (1998)
* "[[Baby Got Back]]" – [[Sir Mix-a-Lot]] (1992)
* "[[Runaway Train (Soul Asylum song)|Runaway Train]]" – [[Soul Asylum]] (1993)
* "[[Connected (Stereo MC's song)|Connected]]" – [[Stereo MC's]] (1992)
* "[[Cotton Eye Joe (Rednex song)|Cotton Eye Joe]]" – [[Rednex]] (1994)
* "[[One Headlight]]" – [[The Wallflowers]] (1997)

====One-Hit Wonders from the 2000s====
From the BBC in March 2017 (based on a combination of chart position and sales):<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/62308e54-dd47-4972-aec4-7e6ad55cb50f|title=What happened to the one-hit wonders of the noughties? - BBC Music|date=27 March 2017|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=15 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115161817/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/62308e54-dd47-4972-aec4-7e6ad55cb50f|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Afroman]] – "[[Because I Got High]]" (2001)
* [[The Bravery]] – "[[An Honest Mistake]]" (2005)
* [[DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies]] – "[[Do You Really Like It?]]" (2001)
* [[Duffy (singer)|Duffy]] – "[[Mercy (Duffy song)|Mercy]]" (2008)
* [[Gnarls Barkley]] – "Crazy" (2006)
* [[Junior Senior]] – "[[Move Your Feet]]" (2002)
* [[Las Ketchup]] – "[[The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)]]" (2002)
* [[Spiller]] (featuring [[Sophie Ellis-Bextor]]) – "[[Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)]]" (2000)

From the BBC Radio 2 show ''One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg'' which started on 2 November 2020...<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p148|title=BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=21 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321232510/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p148|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p148/episodes/guide|title=BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg - Episode guide|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=6 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206182844/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p148/episodes/guide|url-status=live}}</ref>(in alphabetical order):
* [[BodyRockers|Bodyrockers]] – "[[I Like the Way (BodyRockers song)|I Like the Way]]" (2005)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q34g|title=BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg, Music from Bodyrockers, OPM and we ask what makes a One Hit Wonder?|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=7 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207073203/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q34g|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Caesars (band)|Caesars]] – "[[Jerk It Out]]" (2002)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r40w|title=BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg, Music from Caesars, Divinyls and we chat to the producer behind Bellini|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=6 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206182915/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r40w|url-status=live}}</ref> 
* [[Kevin Lyttle]] (feat. [[Spragga Benz|Spraga Benz]]) – "[[Turn Me On (Kevin Lyttle song)|Turn Me On]]" (2003)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p147|title=BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg, Music from House of Pain, Kevin Lyttle, plus a chat with Vanilla Ice|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=2 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102101045/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p147|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Nizlopi]] – "[[JCB (song)|The JCB Song]]" (2005)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q9vn|title=BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg, Christmas Special with music from Renée & Renato, Nizlopi and our guest Aled Jones|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=14 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214081856/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q9vn|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Planet Funk]] – "[[Chase the Sun (song)|Chase the Sun]]" (2001)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rcgp|title=BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg, Music from Planet Funk, Dawn Penn and a chat with Deep Blue Something|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=6 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206182841/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rcgp|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Sweet Female Attitude]] – "[[Flowers (Sweet Female Attitude song)|Flowers]]" (2000)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p6tl|title=BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg, Music from Deee-Lite, OMC, plus a chat with Sweet Female Attitude's Leanne Brown|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=9 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109131433/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p6tl|url-status=live}}</ref> 
* [[The Temper Trap]] – "[[Sweet Disposition]]" (2008)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qj0v|title=BBC Radio 2 - One Hit Wonders with OJ Borg, Music from Cornershop, Temper Trap and we chat to Russ Abbot|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=21 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221170815/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qj0v|url-status=live}}</ref>

====One-Hit Wonders from the 2010s====
The Official Charts Company's list<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-top-40-one-hit-wonders-of-the-decade__27967/|title=The Top 40 biggest one-hit wonders of the decade|website=www.officialcharts.com|access-date=9 February 2021|archive-date=27 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127002219/https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-top-40-one-hit-wonders-of-the-decade__27967/|url-status=live}}</ref> of the biggest one-hit wonder releases of the 2010s, is based on sales and streams. Like the Classic Pop list it uses the UK singles Top 40 chart as the cut-off point. The top ten is as follows:
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
# [[Passenger (singer)|Passenger]] - "[[Let Her Go]]" (2012)
# [[Lukas Graham]] - "[[7 Years (Lukas Graham song)|7 Years]]" (2015)
# [[Mr. Probz]] - "[[Waves (Mr Probz song)|Waves]]" (2013)
# [[Gotye]] featuring [[Kimbra]] - "[[Somebody That I Used to Know]]" (2011)
# [[Walk the Moon]] - "[[Shut Up and Dance (Walk the Moon song)|Shut Up and Dance]]" (2014)
# [[Calum Scott]] - "[[Dancing on My Own#Calum Scott version|Dancing on My Own]]" (2016)
# [[Vance Joy]] - "[[Riptide (Vance Joy song)|Riptide]]" (2013)
# [[Portugal. The Man]] - "[[Feel It Still]]" (2017)
# [[The Lumineers]] - "[[Ho Hey]]" (2012)
# [[Kungs]] vs. [[Cookin' on 3 Burners]] - "[[This Girl (Cookin' on 3 Burners song)|This Girl]]" (2016)
}}

===United States===
{{Main article|List of one-hit wonders in the United States}}