Wallflowers - One Headlight, HeroesEagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight, Falling In Love AgainSemisonic - Secret Smile, Closing Tome
― Moka, Friday, 2 July 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
fischer-z - so long, the perfect day
altho they were hits in australia only
― king solomon and the surrealists (electricsound), Friday, 2 July 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
dj unk
― hell hath no furry (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 July 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty o_0 at anyone suggesting Kylie is a fucking 2 hit wonder.
2 many hit wonder more like it amirite.
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
in the US, she pretty much is!
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
She's had about 2 dozen hits everywhere else in the universe afaik
― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Panjabi MC is a bit of a two hit wonder SO FAR
― stevem (blueski), Friday, November 14, 2003 7:59 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
looool
― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 July 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
two hits are SEVERAL YEARS APART, not to mention...TOP 15, AT LEAST. Which is necessity for REAL two-hit wonders.
Okay, but Dwight Twilley still belongs here, I just realized. Two hits, and two hits only, both peaking as close to Top 15 as you can get without getting there: "I'm On Fire" #16 pop in 1975, then "Girls" #16 pop in 1984. Amazed nobody's mentioned him here before.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.onehitwondercenter.com/two/twohit_tz.htm
― Moka, Thursday, 30 September 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Rick Astley, "Never Gonna Give You Up", "Together Forever", at least in the USA.
Nope -- three other top tens! "It Would Take a Strong, Strong Man," "She Wants to Dance With Me" and the DOA "Cry For Help," which got a lot of airplay in spring '91. "Giving Up on Love" barely made the top 40.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 October 2010 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Never realized til now that Janis Ian actually had a third Hot 100 hit, six years after "At Seventeen" -- "Under The Covers," which apparently got to #71 in 1981. Not quite a real hit (also not very good), but it's still cool how she hit the Hot 100 exactly once each in three different decades.
― xhuxk, Friday, 31 August 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIEfjAHfV5c
I guess her Moroder collab wasn't a hit, but it should have been, as it's awesome!
― Tuomas, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently Tiffany had two other Top 10 hits after "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been", which both went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Pretty sure most people only remember "I Think We're Alone Now" though.
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 31 August 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
I sure remember "I Saw Him Standing There"! That was her best.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 1 September 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
Very close, at least, depending on the definition: The r&b band Skyy. Exactly two Hot 100 hits: "Call Me" #26 1982; "Real Love" #47 1990. Eight years apart.
― xhuxk, Friday, 19 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
If we're talking about world-wide hits, I think Evelyn "Champagne" King would qualify with "Shame" and "Love Come Down". Besides them, she had a couple of minor charting songs in the US ("I Don't Know If It's Right" reached #23 and "I'm in Love" #40), but I'm pretty sure the big two hits are the only ones people remember now.
― Tuomas, Monday, 22 October 2012 09:45 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't Evelyn King do "I'm In Love" as well?
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 22 October 2012 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
oh sorry, read that wrong.
although I'm In Love is the only song I recognise by her.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 22 October 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
For right now, that "Good Time" song has a chance to generate 2 one hit wonders! Obviously, too early to tell for both Owl City and CRJ but that's the way it is to date.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 22 October 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
er, 2 two hit wonders, of course.
Andrew W.K. - "Party Hard" and "She is Beautiful"Dschingis Khan - "Moskau" and "Dschingis Khan"Fatboy Slim - "The Rockefeller Skank" and "Praise You"; I know he's had other singles but they weren't big like those two were they?Gary Numan - "Are Friends Electric?", "Cards"The Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump" and "Peaches"Soul Coughing - "Circles and "Super Bon Bon"
― frogbs, Monday, 22 October 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
"Are Friends Electric?" was by Tubeway Army
"Cards" was by Snap
― Mark G, Monday, 22 October 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
Tubeway Army and Numan were basically one and the same though. The same band played on TPP didn't they?
― frogbs, Monday, 22 October 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
In popular memory, though not chart performance, Fine Young Cannibals qualify in the US. I see from Wikipedia that "Don't Look Back" hit #11, but I don't think I've ever heard it whereas "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing" are both pretty universal.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 22 October 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
oh def. "Don't Look Back" is so awesome though. I'd trade "Good Thing" for it any day.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 October 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
I thought Crazy Frog would be this, but he's had at least three hits.
― Siegbran, Monday, 22 October 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Everyhit says five.
Does anyone remember "We are the Champions" ? I don't!
― Mark G, Monday, 22 October 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
I think it went ring ding ding ding ring ding ding
― Siegbran, Monday, 22 October 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
five hit singles, one top ten album, another lower down and that difficult third album!
― Mark G, Monday, 22 October 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
Fatboy Slim - "The Rockefeller Skank" and "Praise You"; I know he's had other singles but they weren't big like those two were they?
"Right Here, Right Now" was just as big a hit as the other two, and still gets played today. I think it's pretty popular in sports events, for example, because of the anthemic sound; it was one of the two songs he played in his London Olympics performance. ("Gangster Trippin'" was also a big hit after "Rockafeller Skank", but that one seems to get less play these days.)
Also, before Fatboy Slim Norman Cook had already had two hits under other pseudonyms: "Dub Be Good to Me" (#1 on the UK singles chart), and "Magic Carpet Ride" (#24).
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
Fatboy Slim has a lot more well-known songs in the UK than just those two.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
In popular memory, though not chart performance, Fine Young Cannibals qualify in the US. I see from Wikipedia that "Don't Look Back" hit #11, but I don't think I've ever heard it whereas "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing" are both pretty universal.― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:24 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:24 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No Johnny Come Home?
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
he had another #1 in 1986 too yo
― set the controls for the arse of your mum (sic), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
had no idea about "Right Here, Right Now", kinda thought that had become famous after the fact - as for "Gangster Trippin" I know the video played quite a bit here but I don't think anyone recognizes it now
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
Not a hit in the US (#76).
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
in the UK, "Rockafeller Skank" was the lowest-charting single off of You've Come A Long Way, Baby (of those that made the charts; one didn't)
also because I am old, I always default to "Everybody Needs a 303" and "Going Out Of My Head" as the go-to FS singles even though they weren't as massive
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
Also, FBS remixes like Brimful Of Asha and Body Movin' charted on their own.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah no way FBS is a 2 hit wonder.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
his "Renegade Master" remix charted too, right?
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
I can't remember gangster tripping at all
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
maybe not in UK. in US I don't think anyone remembers much outside those two unless you count stuff like "Brimful of Asha".
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
I like "Gangster Trippin'" a LOT more than "Rockafeller Skank"
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Which one did Walken dance in the video for? That was awesome.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
"Weapon of Choice", a song very clearly outshined by its video
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
The Cardigans are another really clear example of this, at least in the US ("Lovefool" and "My Favorite Game").
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
the Walken vid was really FBS's only visible moment after 1998 around here. other than "oh my God Palookaville is awful"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
Carnival, Ma Favourite Game, Burning Down The House?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 25 October 2012 06:23 (eleven years ago) link
Another Bad Creation
― suggest butt (Pillbox), Thursday, 25 October 2012 09:31 (eleven years ago) link