Editing One-hit wonder

{{Short description|Entity that achieves mainstream popularity for only one piece of work}}
{{Other uses|One Hit Wonder (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}
A '''one-hit wonder''' is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success. The term is most commonly used in regard to [[musician|music performers]] with only one [[hit single]] that overshadows their other work. Some artists dubbed "one-hit wonders" in a particular country had achieved success in other countries. Music artists with subsequent popular albums and hit listings are not properly considered a one-hit wonder, although artists with multiple hits have sometimes been erroneously labelled as "one-hit wonders" if one particular hit has become much more well-remembered years or decades later than their other hits. One-hit wonders usually see their popularity decreasing after their hit listing, and most often never return to hit listings with other songs or albums.

==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>

==Lists of one-hit wonders==
===Australia===
===="20 to 1: One Hit Wonders"====
{{unreferenced section|date=September 2020}}
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}}

==See also==
*[[15 minutes of fame]]
* ''[[Homo unius libri]]'' – Latin phrase meaning "man of one book".
*[[Signature song]]
*[[Summer hit]]
* "One-Hit Wonder" by [[Blair Packham]], a 2004 song about the classic one-hit wonder "[[Monster Mash]]" by [[Bobby Pickett]].
*''[[That Thing You Do!]]'' – a 1996 American comedy film about the rise and fall of a fictional 1960s one-hit wonder pop band.
*[[List of one-hit wonders on the UK Albums Chart]] – artists who have had a number one hit album and charted one Top 40 hit album in the OCC chart
*[[List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Downloads Chart#One-hit wonders|List of one-hit wonders on the UK Singles Downloads Chart]] – including separate lists for featured artists and ensemble groups
*[[List of one-hit wonders on the UK Singles Chart]] – artists who have had a number one hit single and no other charting Top 75 hit singles in the OCC chart

==References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*Mordden, Ethan (1980) ''A Guide to Orchestral Music.'' New York: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-504041-4}}
*Jancik, Wayne (1998). ''The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders.'' New York: Billboard Books. {{ISBN|0-8230-7622-9}}
*''One Hit Wonders'', 2003, Dg Deutsche Grammophon, catalog number 472700. The composers DG includes in this compilation are: [[Richard Addinsell]], [[Tomaso Albinoni]], [[Hugo Alfvén]], [[Samuel Barber]], [[Luigi Boccherini]], [[Joseph Canteloube]], [[Marc-Antoine Charpentier]], [[Jeremiah Clarke]], [[Léo Delibes]], [[Paul Dukas]], [[Reinhold Glière]], [[Ferde Grofé]], [[Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov]], [[Dmitri Kabalevsky]], [[Aram Khachaturian]], [[Edward MacDowell]], [[Pietro Mascagni]], [[Jules Massenet]], [[Jean-Joseph Mouret]], [[Carl Orff]], [[Johann Pachelbel]], [[Amilcare Ponchielli]], [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], [[Emil Waldteufel]], [[Peter Warlock]], and [[Charles-Marie Widor]].

==External links==
* [http://www.11points.com/Music/11_Music_Superstars_Who_are_Technically_One-Hit_Wonders 11 Music Superstars Who are Technically One-Hit Wonders]

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