Your favorite One-Hit-Wonders

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Your favorite One-Hit-Wonders

Bands like 'Better then Ezra,' 'Blur,' and 'Chumbawumba' come to mind.

Anyone else?

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i dont think blur were a one hit wonder, its just that that happened to be the one song the public took hold of. the guys who invented the macarina are the ULTIMATE one his wonders

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new radicals had a song that i like called you get what you give if i remember correctly

Blur arent 1 hit wonders, maybe in the states....but defo not in UK
theirs and Oasis' albums were the first Rock albums i ever bought

Originally posted by loserib
new radicals had a song that i like called you get what you give if i remember correctly

😱 I was thinking them too! yeah it's called You Get What You Give
I heard it again on the radio a while ago when I was in Munich, it stuck in my head, so I downloaded it when I got back 😮

they were mad one hit wonders after that song they broke up

What about Joe Dolci, with his great song "Shaddap a ya face..." A one hit wondewr in nearly every country... or Status Quo... the only did one song, they just kept renaming it for forty years....

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Originally posted by burlyman
😱 I was thinking them too! yeah it's called You Get What You Give
I heard it again on the radio a while ago when I was in Munich, it stuck in my head, so I downloaded it when I got back 😮

^^ I love that song ✅

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actually The Cardigans had a couple of hits from their Grand Turisimo(follow up album) album as well. "Erase and Rewind" for example

Yeah The New Radical song You get What you give is a good one.

In the US Dexy Midnight Runners had a huge hit and their only hit over there with "Comer On Eileen". Had numerous hit in Europe though.

A "debatable" one hit wonder is Gerry Rafferty and his "Baker Street", debatable because the album City To City(1977) sold very well and still do. But I think that "Baker Street" was the only hit single form that album though

or Status Quo... the only did one song, they just kept renaming it for forty years
😂 😆 😂 even though I agree with you the truth is they have had a couple of huge hits. "Whatever You Want", " You`re in The Army Now" (a cover version of "Bolland and Bolland"only thing SQ had a much bigger hit with the cover thanB&B had with the original) "Rockin All Over The World" and "Paper Plane"
Still SQ is boring as hell

having a hit in europe isn't as important as having a hit in th eUS

you would make so much more money by having a #1 US hit.

my favorite: Wild Cherry--Play That Funky Music White Boy

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Yeah, and I like the New Radical's song...😱

Dexies Midnight Runners.

having a hit in europe isn't as important as having a hit in th eUS
sometimes it is the fact that it is a hit in Europe that gets the song attention in the US.
There are some artist that makes tons of money without even peeking at the charts in the US.
No doubt US is an extremely big market, but there are other markets to conquer as well. Just look at Robbie Williams, of course if he broke the US market he would be the most selling artist at present time, but he has yet to break the market over there. But he is pretty big in the rest of the world, and the European marked shouldnt be underestimated cause the more united Europe gets the bigger the market is here. And European buys a lot of music.

All the european artists try to conquer the US for one reason: $$$.

Everyone knows that the US is the richest country in the world--hell, Beckham is one of hte most popular peoplein the world, but he still can't break big in the US--he keeps trying though.

Mambo numer 7...or 6 ....i dont remeber....lol

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Everyone knows that the US is the richest country in the world
not entirely true though even if the US are considered one of the richest countries. The countries that are considered richer than the US are too small to make a huge impact when it comes to the musical marked.

Beckham is one of hte most popular peoplein the world, but he still can't break big in the US--he keeps trying though.
its a difference of being a celebrity than a musician.

All the european artists try to conquer the US for one reason: $$$
most artist do it for that reason, but there are some artists/bands that are happy to make it on the European continent alone.

it is Mambo #5 🙂

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