Talk:List of one-hit wonders on the UK singles chart

message: No, not the Gorillaz song, the actor.
I had a look in the Guiness Hit Singles book, edition 7 book and it backs what I w put in the article.  If you have a copy, or can get your hands on a copy, it may something similar if it is not version 7.  
If it was a double A side (which the book says it is), then I can't see why we are not looking at a pair of OHWs.  That's got to be worth a mention, hasn't it?  
Oh and you're right, many one-off acts made it to number 1, but they should be listed in this article, as long as they only done it once.  That's the whole point of the article.  --Cexycy (talk) 22:06, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, just checked up on this in both British Hit Singles by Tony Brown etc and it does list the song for 2 weeks (peaking at 18) - this was obviously the only two weeks it was listed as a double A-side. This is confirmed by Chartstats here:http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=2149 . You could maybe mention it within Lee Marvin, but it doesn't seem to be a genuine No.1 - officially it was the B-side apart from those 2 weeks. As for one-off artists reaching No.1 in a duet, these could be listed in a separate section perhaps, but this would need to include every pairing which would make the list very long. I'm not too concerned with this point though, but if you're going to add Queen and David Bowie, you'll need to put them all in.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 22:27, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Clint Eastwood

message: Right since someone has decided to add in random pairings, we'll take a look at them. Apart from the fact that now the opening paragraph doesn't match the information, there are a few errors as well as tons of examples missing. First of all - Elton John and Kiki Dee are not a OHW - they had two hits together. "Under Pressure" was 1981, not 1980. Other than that, the following are missing: Chicane and Bryan Adams, Mel B and Lisa Lopes, Mariah Carey and Westlife, Shaggy and Rikrok, Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman, Will Young and Gareth Gates, Nelly and Kelly Rowland, Christina Aguilera and Redman, Blue and Elton John, Room 5 and Oliver Cheatham, Blu Cantrell and Sean Paul, Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne, LMC V U2, JaRule, R Kelly and Ashanti, Ciara and Petey Pablo, Nelly and Tim McGraw, 2Pac and Elton John, Notorious BIG, P Diddy and Nelly, Meck and Leo Sayer, Beyonce and Jay Z, Sugababes and Girls Aloud, Beyonce and Shakira, Eva Cassidy and Katie Melua - and that's just this decade alone!
I'm not even going to go there anymore, the page is back to being a mess. If you're going to work on an article - do the research first!--Tuzapicabit (talk) 13:58, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes some of these are featuring or with, but then so was Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder and Westlife and Mariah Carey to name just two, (according to the singles as released they are as follows: Paul McCartney with guest vocals by Stevie Wonder and Mariah Carey featuring Westlife - you need to do more research than just one book and provide references if necessary) so where do you draw the line? Have some of them and not others? Anyway, yes, the article is based on the criteria used in the Guinness Book of, but for reasons of brevity any artist which has charted any other time is left out, otherwise the article will be too long. There are three possible solutions: A/ take all these collaborations out B/ Include them all as a list only (like the Aggregate groups section) or C/ as you say - a separate article with a link to the page. On another note you will need to look into which ones are genuine - Tubeway Army was an act in its own right (they have their own article) so shouldn't be in the section you moved them into, while Clint Eastwood only ever reached No.18 officially yet you still insist on putting it in there. As I see it the article has multiple issues, but I'm leaving until you've finished tinkering with it - which you have every right to do, but please be a bit more thorough rather than just adding what appears in just one source (yes it's the main source given the article, but not the only one to be used).--Tuzapicabit (talk) 13:25, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Yes that looks fine.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 17:39, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the opening paragraph explains why these are valid - they're all of equal billing and have never had another hit - the Young Ones are even used as an example. The fact that Gary Numan was a member of Tubeway Army doesn't make any difference. Tubeway Army had one hit only. Individual members of a band don't come into it - who knows, maybe a member of The Floaters for example had a hit with another group? (Probably not, but you see my point). All the additions are valid under the criteria given. Put simply: Tubeway Army had one hit, The Young Ones had one hit, Steve Silk Hurley had one hit and so on.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 12:20, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

text: I would like to comment about the inclusion of "Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds" as a OHW.  As a fellow wikipedian stated above; this group is not only a collaboration; but they also had 2 hits.  The original song released in 1996, was the official anthem of the England football team for that year's European Championships, held in England. The music was written by The Lightning Seeds, with comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner providing the lyrics; and reached #1 making it a OHW at the time.  However, it was subsequently re-recorded with different lyrics (under the title "Three Lions '98") as an unofficial anthem for England's World Cup campaign in 1998 and landed the number one spot in the singles chart for a second time.  Thus now making it a 2-hit-wonder for the same group (Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds).  Then in 2002 they re-released it again; and it reached #16; and in 2006 released for the 4th time and peaked at #9 in the UK charts.  So this song is no longer a OHW.  (Pr3st0n (talk) 13:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Collaboration yes, but one of the acts (Baddiel and Skinner) are an otherwise uncharted act (note that the Lightning Seeds are not listed as a One Hit Wonder). However, given consideration that the later versions were completely re-recorded and with new lyrics, I would agree that yes, they are effectively different songs - so I've removed them. Thanks as well for bringing it to the talk page. My mistake.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 10:13, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

text: Actually if you look at the revision history, they were commented on, but let's see... Cornershop had five hits in the UK, Birdy had four hits in the UK (apart from the fact that "Skinny Love" only reached No.17 anyway (in fact she's even had a bigger hit than that!)). Psy's follow-up single reached No.10. None of these are one hit wonders.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 09:53, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  New entries 

message: I have removed a reference to an act whose one hit only reached #27 on the UK charts, but #1 on the so-called London Radio chart. This is clearly not an official chart and therefore the example is not appropriate for the article. Smurfmeister (talk) 10:23, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: London radio charts

message: The KLF/JAMMs didn't release the single Doctorin' The Tardis, at the end of the History of the JAMMs album Ford Timelord admits he released the single.  So even though The KLF and The JAMMs went off to make other songs and have other hits, the car itself didn't.  Also this is probably the first and only time a car actually released a single.  Ford Timelord was the American cop car on the front cover of the record, it had been used in the Superman film and was acquired afterwards by The KLF.
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message: Shouldn't Simon Dupree and the Big Sound be here for their song "Kites"?ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:28, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Simon Dupree and the Big Sound

message: Were not the Scots group Orange_Juice_(band) a one-hit wonder band with their song "Rip it Up"?ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:12, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The criteria for the article is the Guinness Book of British Hit singles one: "a number one hit and no other entry whatsoever." Rip it up only reached number eight and they had nine other entries in the top 75. Same with Simon Dupree above, it didn't get to number one and they had another chart entry at number 43. There are literally over a thousand acts in the same boat (a solitary top 40 hit) so I would argue that including cases like those would make the list so large as to be worthless, as well as a minefield for WP:OR. Valenciano (talk) 05:01, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Orange Juice

message: I'm not convinced by the argument that X Factor Finalists are one hit wonders because the line up changes - so did the Sugababes for example. The criteria above seemed to be based on the name of the act rather than its membership. If they followed the Band Aid model and added a year to the name then fine but they have the same name so they are the same act in the same way as Glee Cast are one act regardless of members. Btljs (talk) 22:17, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aggregate ensemble groups 

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message: Looking at the 2014 No.1s, about half of them are collaborations as is the style of hits this decade. Obviously, this list now has to go as it's going to become endless. It makes little sense anyway, and let's not forget that the last few editions of the Guinness Book of removed the list as well.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 10:24, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm with you mate.  A lot of work went into the list as you know so I've reinstated it as it was but added that it was not an exhaustive list and that the list was omitted.  Therefore people can see what was there but understand that the list will no longer be updated.  Can't say fairer than that.  Cexycy (talk) 01:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It won't let me reinstate all of it!  Hopefully I can at some point and you'll see what I'm getting at Cexycy (talk) 01:09, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaborations classified as one-hit wonders 

message: re: Collaborations classified as one-hit wonders. 
ENGLANDneworder is probably not listed as a one-hit wonder in The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles either, but I do not want to be the one who states whether it is or is not. So to give it the benefit of the doubt (and because someone took time to put it in the list in the first place) I have moved the information to a new section called  'Special cases - Football records' with a couple of other number ones which could or could not be viewed as one-hit wonders similar to the status of ENGLANDneworder. Please read the section for additional information on each record before making amendments (i.e. just deleting the section) as its taken me time to type it all up...and the information should provide background info for people to make their own minds up.81.154.172.220 (talk) 14:57, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Football records

message: Military wives is a choir which had a number one named where ever you are featuring Gareth Malone. I'm wondering where to put this because the choir made other hits but I'm not sure if they should go in regular one hit wonder or a collaboration one hit wonder. TheWikiLlama123 (talk) 03:03, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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