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Biggest One-Hit Wonders of All Time – Darlinez News.

<p> &lbrack;ad&lowbar;1&rsqb;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"entry-content column content primary is-two-thirds">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"" style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon; 10px&semi;">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"">&NewLine;<p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"tag is-dark is-uppercase">Special Report<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"byline-container">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"post-date is-italic has-text-grey is-size-7 has-text-weight-medium ">&NewLine;<p>December 16&comma; 2022 5&colon;00 pm<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>At one time&comma; at least in theory&comma; the music industry offered the chance for anyone to be a star&period; That was the premise for the movie &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That Thing You Do&comma;” about a fictional American band in the 1960s that records what turns out to be its only hit&period; The group’s name&comma; fittingly&comma; is The Wonders&period; Then there are the real one-hit wonders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To determine the biggest one-hit wonders of all time&comma; 24&sol;7 Tempo reviewed data on historical song performance on the <span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Billboard Hot 100<&sol;span>&period; Songs released from 1975 to 2017 that reached No&period; 1 were ranked based on the total number of weeks spent in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100&period; Billboard Hot 100 data is current through Nov&period; 19&comma; 2022&period; Data on certified album sales came from the <span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Recording Industry Association of America<&sol;span>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additionally&comma; artists must have charted on the Top 40 no more than twice&comma; either as individual artists or by featuring on another artist’s song&comma; and must have sold fewer than five million albums in the United States throughout their careers&comma; not including singles&period; Several of the artists on this list – among them Gloria Gaynor and Captain &&num;038&semi; Tennille – may have charted other hits&comma; but did not meet these criteria&period; &lpar;Here are some famous musicians who never topped the Billboard Hot 100&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of the 50 one-hit wonders on the list&comma;16 were released in the 1970s&period; Many of the hits were propelled by the meteoric rise of disco and its danceable music&period; Some of those songs are still played on oldies stations such as Gaynor’s defiant anthem &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I Will Survive&comma;” Wild Cherry’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Play That Funky Music&comma;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Boogie Oogie Oogie” by A Taste of Honey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Other songs from the era were gimmicky&comma; such as the techno Euro-pop song &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Pop Muzik” by M&period;&comma; while others were forgettable – for instance the satirical &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Disco Duck &lpar;Part I&rpar;” by radio personality Rick Dees &&num;038&semi; His Cast Of Idiots and the salacious &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Afternoon Delight” by Starland Vocal Band&period; &lpar;You might be surprised at some of the biggest one-hit wonders who are still making music&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;008000&semi;"><strong>Click here to learn about the biggest one-hit wonders of all time<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 1980s and 2000s each place 12 songs on the list&period; The advent of MTV raised the exposure for singles and extended their presence on playlists&period; Songs such as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Maniac” by Michael Sembello and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&lpar;I’ve Had&rpar; the Time of My Life” by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes were boosted by appearing in motion pictures – 1983’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Flashdance” and 1987’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dirty Dancing&comma;” respectively&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In recent years&comma; Billboard has changed its tracking methodology to account for new ways people listen to music by incorporating streaming data&period; Nine of the 10 songs with the longest staying power are from the 21st century&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&excl;-- &num;post-footer--><&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;

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