ITT One Hit Wonders that you think have more than one hit.
>>122594157Devo.
do you mean deserve more songs to be known as hits or that theyre 1 hit wonders that are really 2 or 3 hit wonders? Anyways Blind Melon, 2 albums every bit as good as the best albums in grunge
>>122594157Hit is not a subjective term, it refers to "hitting the charts" as in the pop charts, popular music charts, back when people bought music and they could actually make a list of what music was being bought the most, that was the chart, and being on the top x number of whatever chart in some region is a hit.hits aren't something you "think"Nevertheless, most one hit wonders weren't true one hit wonders because they tended to have more hits in different random regions where labels would offload extra inventory, but people only usually think of the US, or maybe the UK
>>122594998I know Chumbawumba is known for having all kinds of cool stuff outside "that album with their big hit", but man that album has some real fuckin' bangers on it!
>>122594157how does this>that you think have moremechanism work?Top 40 Pop contains much one hit wonders over the years. But technically, those one hit wonders often had smaller hits.Billboard chart history should be able to get you that data for any act.Here's a link to Starland Vocal Band.https://www.billboard.com/artist/starland-vocal-band/1 #1, 4 total hot 100.
>>122595171Both albums were hits. Both got on the top 50 of the album chart. Talking about hit songs exclusively is something that 12 year old girls, fags, and fat middle aged women might do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinkfongPinkfong has had 1 song/album on the Billboard charts.Baby Shark
The Banana Splitsonly one song was a hit.other banana splits songs that should've been hits.https://youtu.be/3cfHKmQ2ZzI?si=vM8MHdcHSQgOU-py
junior senior
>>122594157Shocking Blue were generally pretty fucking godly. Think they had more hits in europe but yeah. Also Frijid Pink.
Toto feels like a one hit wonder band despite having a few hits.
trio. i listened to them exclusively in 2021 when i was severely depressed, happiest time of my life.
I always forget fast car lady has like 2 other pretty big songs
Does Jimmy Eat World count?
>>122595257In the US, Chumbawamba was a one hit. But ultimately this is a vibes based thing. Don't think of One hit wonder as a literal classification. Chumbawamba was not a one hit in Canada and Britain but was a one hit in the US for example. Take it at any metric you see fit.
>>122594157a lot of big beat acts fit this description
>>122598187Well post them.
>>122595035Only idiots think Devo is a one hit wonder. Devo are like one of the biggest new wave acts and still have a fanbase especially when compared to actual one hit wonder bands.
>>122598172>ultimately this is a vibes based thingI hope you get dick cancer
>>122598834When the autist has to deal with the ambiguity of life
>>122598345I didn't say Devo was bad. I love Devo, but they only actually had one "hit" per se. Yet being so well known, you would think they would have had more. That's the theme of the thread, I thought.
They still only had the one "hit," but Harvey Danger were really fucking good and deserved better
>>122601156huh, i looked it up and apparently their second highest charting song is their working in a coal mine cover. surprised girl u want didn't even chart
>>122598345Devo is a no hit wonder.
Toyko Hotel
>>122601568cu-rack that whip!
>>122601156they had 3 songs on the Billboard top 100. I'd say that's 3 hits.
>>122597041You probably hear Hold The Line way more on the classic rock stations these days than Africa
>>1226011913 songs on the alternative radio chart.
>>1226017791 number 1, 4 top 10, 14 top 40 on the Hot 100 for Toto
>>122597191>Sweetness>The Middle>Bleed AmericanI don't think I'd say so.
>>122594157>>122594998>CHICKAWAGA
>>122594157I've once looked into this topic as I wanted to write a Quora post on it.After wasting a couple of hours I concluded that if you go by the official criterion of an artist only having one hit in top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, then it's true: most one hit wonders really don't have any great music besides that single hit.Exceptions were artists like Sinead O Connor and maybe a few others. But 98% of them really only had that single hit.So I'm not going back to wasting time on such a niche shit subject
>>122602060Also there are lots of cult bands like Pixies that probably never had one single big hit.And it doesn't really matter much. In terms of either money or cultural impact, they probably made more than lots of one hit wonders.
>>122601118>autistyou're on 4chan>the ambiguity of lifenot everything is ambiguous, like, you know, mathematics.
This whole album is great>>122595171I wouldn't consider Blind Melon a one hit wonder>>122597191That's a one album wonder
>>122602183>I wouldn't consider Blind Melon a one hit wonderwhat's their other hit?
>>122602589Their other songs get pretty good streams. Top 40 is a pretty narrow definition of a hit
>>122596954that song was dope
>>122602607>Their other songs get pretty good streamsso they're not hits>Top 40 is a pretty narrow definition of a hityeah, that's why it's useful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVL-zZnD3VU
>>122601553well deserved working in a coal mine is one of those stimulant upper songs that never stops
>>122602589change sorta>>122602183tyler is such a great song
>>122596301you failed the autism test bro
>>122602080no one has defined what a hit is.It was common for bands to have 1 big hit, and then smaller songs which are hits or not hits depending on how you define it.A lot of bands have a biggest song and there's often a big gap between song 1 and 2. Many, maybe most good bands don't ever see the Hot 100, but they might see Mainstream Rock radio airplay top 40 or 50.The most awesome brutal metal band probably has no appearances on a singles chart or an airplay chart. The Pixies had 5 alternative radio top 10s.
>>122602803you're on 4chan
>>122602589https://youtu.be/ktZoUHcP0wI?si=Jldua1gXydkjCBf2Galaxie was #8 on alternative radio.
>>122602638I think so too. nice fuzz. soulful voice like Eric Burdon.
>>122603654never heard that shit in my life
>>122602648there was some discussion about what constitutes a hit.Why do the MD/PDs of top 40 pop stations decide whether or not to play the next single from a band they played the last time? I don't know. Usually bribe money has something to do with it. Pay one time, not another time.But the term "one hit wonder" just doesn't apply to a band who has a big hit on the hot 100 chart and then has a hit on alternative radio. They're both hits. One is bigger than the other. when doing math, you don't say "one-hit" because top 10 or even top 40 on any of the radio formats is a hit. So, one big + one smaller = 2, not one.You use "one hit wonder" to describe a band that had one (1) hit, not one big one and one small one that you forgot about.Rock bands are generally not one hit wonders. Top 40 pop acts often are, depending on the time period.
>>122603781and that means exactly nothing.It was 8 on the alternative radio charts 30 years ago. If we're going to use the term "one hit wonder" a bit of an insult, a diminution, we're not going to ignore hits.remember, top 40 pop is for 12 year old girls, no presumption should be made about the ability to get 12 year old girls to like you.Rock bands made more money by selling albums which cost more. 12 year old girls didn't have as much money and had to buy singles.
