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The Greatest Two-Hit Wonders

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  1. Melody Bot Mar 25, 2025
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    Chris Dalla Riva did a deep dive on the greatest two-hit wonders of all time:

    But if one hit is a miracle, then two hits is a near impossibility. Two-hit artists sit in a weird space, though. Pop stars a remembered because they are very famous. One-hit wonders are remembered for the opposite. Their un-memorableness makes them great answers to bar trivia questions. Two-hit wonders are stuck in the middle. Some might be able to parlay those two hits into careers, but others are lost in a musical no man’s land, too many hits for trivia, not enough to be legends. Still, there’s got to be a greatest two-hit wonder.

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  2. MarkM Mar 25, 2025
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    Duuuude

    stale azzwater once told me he was afraid he'd be a one hit wonder. turns out he never got one to even wonder about
     
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  3. Woohoo! Mar 25, 2025
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    I feel like “top 30” is an extremely arbitrary place to draw the line. “Top 40” is a term that is pretty much ubiquitous. Several artists on the list had a 3rd song in the top 40.

    Even if we used top 40 as the standard I think it’s completely irrelevant. I feel like “one hit wonder” is somewhat subjective and to put a strict definition on it is silly. Blink is a one hit wonder by the top 40 standard but if you have more than a dozen rock chart hits and several music videos that were all over MTV and TRL then you can’t convince me that a band like that is a one hit wonder. I like the Todd in the Shadows definition: “bands and artists known for only one song.”

    To me, there has to be some “wonder” in there. Like, I wonder why they didn’t have any other popular songs. Or I wonder whatever happened to them after the hype died down. Nobody wonders about Pink Floyd or The Cure.
     
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