Talk:One-hit wonder

message: By definition on all published books (also by Billboard and Official UK Chart company) a One-Hit Wonder is an artist that have had just 1 TOP 40 Hit in their chart (and no more than 3 International Hits in multiple countries out of the artist home country). There are many songs on this page from artists that ARE NOT OFFICIALLY CONSIDERED ONE HIT WONDERS and should be remove. Please review it!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.94.23.209 (talk) 12:32, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition

message: Why does the top 50 section only got 49 songs?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.21.109.215 (talk) 02:32, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't? If you mean the Channel 4 enumeration, there are 50 songs in the list. --Thallium81 (talk) 15:59, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wait

message: And I take offense. The Knack had two hits! (My Sharona and That's What the Little Girls Do) -- I spent a hefty bit of my allowance on the 8-track. :-) Danny P.S. and Good Girls Dont makes three
: You betcha.  "Good girls dont, good girls don't, good girls don't--but I do!"  What classic lyrics!  The knack were the band everyone loved to hate.  soulpatch
::Whether or not they were one-hit wonders (OHWs) depends on the criteria. Billboard put out a book of OHWs: their criterion was that said artist only chart once on the Billboard Top 40 Pop Chart. Note that this book also lists Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" and Joplin's "Me and Bobby McGee"; it's a quantitative measure of a particular song's performance on one single chart, not a qualitative judgement of any particular group. 
::And I liked "My Sharona" when it first came out. Then I got sick of it: oversaturation, the whole "Next Beatles!" hype — 25 years later, I love it again. --SigPig 06:42, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Knack

message: The term one-hit wonder applies equally to the song itself, as well as to the band that records it. How can we phrase this in the opening paragraph? --Ed Poor
:Tried to fix it for you, Ed.  Took out Nick Lowe cause he had more than one hit and a long successful career.  As for the links on the Pipkins and Zager & Evans, well, who knows?  Ortolan88
::Again, depends on your definition of a OHW. Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders lists Lowe, Z&E, and the Pipkins. The book's criteria is "an act that has won a position on Billboard's national, pop, Top 40 just once." Which is why the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin are rubbing shoulders with The Detergents, Tiny Tim, and Edd "Kookie" Byrnes. Also, the key word here is act, which is why people like Roger Daltrey of the Who and Graham Nash of CSNY appear, as well as why Tony Burrows and Jim Henson make multiple appearances. --SigPig 17:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Band too

message: Mike Oldfield as one hit wonder? Not so sure about that- there was "On Horseback" and "In Dulce Jubilo" (spelling??) and others as well I'm sure- was "Tubular Bells" released as a single? If so I don't think it was ever a hit... Hey this is real pub chat stuff this isn't it??? quercus robur
: "Tubular Bells" was definitely a single in the US.  I remember hearing it all the time on the radio back in the 70s.  soulpatch
Yep I knew there was another one that had fallen down the back of my mental filing cabinet- 'Moonlight Shadow' was an eighties biggie here in the UK as well as the others mentioned above- and I think he did a single of the Blue peter theme but I'm not sure it it was a hit... best he comes out of the article... quercus robur
Yes, I was just thinking of "Moonlight Shadow". I hardly think any one could call any one as big in the world of popular music as Mike Oldfield a one-hit wonder. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 16:40, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Mike Oldfield

message: T'pau also had at least one other UK hit with China In Your hand. Jeez they were a shite band ;-)
:However in the United States they had a grand total of one hit. Hence they're a one hit wonder there  Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 19:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: T'pau

message: Why was only a sentence merged from the original Two Hit Wonders article?  Was it a mistake or was only a sentence supposed to be merged without the rest of the article?  Well anyways, I was able to finish the merge by merging the rest of the article. --; 02:42, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it was the substantive content. The list was irrelevant and contained many dubious entries.  — Gwalla | Talk 05:14, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge from Two Hit Wonders

message: How about a page on artistes with only ONE number one hit?
This would include artistes like the Eurythemics,Sting etc.
:Go ahead and make one.  However, List of musical artists with exactly one number-one song might be a better title?  --Locarno 16:53, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Frankly, I don't see the point of such an article. -R. fiend 17:05, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  A far more interesting (and a lot shorter) list would be of those artists and songs whose ONLY Billboard Hot 100 hit (or the UK equivalent chart) was a #1 song. I actually put together such a list once, and I think there were only six or seven songs on it. Cheemo 21:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: One Number One Hit Wonder

message: I deleted the whole section because it is completely unverified as a concept that exists outside of popular music. I wouldn't mind if someone brought back the section, but it needs sources and verification that the term is actively used for classical music outside of Wikipedia. The whole section sounds like original research, and stretching the concept outside of the confines of popular music/culture with its sales charts and hits sounds illogical. hateless 17:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe something like "Composers known primarily for one work".  --  JackofOz (talk) 02:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing classical music section 

message: When it comes to classical music, the so-called "one-hit wonders" seem to fall into 2 camps:
* the ones that the general public know about - these include the Pachelbel Canon, Barber's Adagio, Massenet's Meditation, Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, etc.  As far as they're aware, these may as well be the only pieces those composers ever wrote
* but those who know their classical music a little better would never put most of those pieces into "one-hit wonders".  Maybe the Pachelbel Canon would remain.  
However, there really are a lot of classical pieces, quite well known, that even classical buffs would consider one-hit wonders.  I think of things like:
* Litolff's Scherzo (not even a complete work)
* Sinding's Rustle of Spring
* Hamish MacCunn's The Land of the Mountain and the Flood overture
* Arthur Benjamin's Jamaican Rhumba
* Minkus's Don Quixote ballet
* Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto
* Vittorio Monti's Czardas
* Toselli's Serenade
* Lalo's Symphonie espagnole
* Ethel Smythe's opera The Wreckers
* Kalinnikov's Symphony No. 1
* Parry's Jerusalem
* Smetana's The Moldau
* Holst's The Planets
* Ronald Binge's Elizabethan Serenade
* Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra
* Ippolitov-Ivanov's Caucasian Sketches, 
* and many more.  
It's not that anyone who's ever done any reading on these people believes they wrote nothing else, but when someone says the name "Litolff", for example, who doesn't immediately think "Scherzo"?  Sure, many other works by these people have been recorded and are performed, but the works I listed seem to be so way out in front in terms of being far-and-away their single best-known work, that they may as well be one-hit wonders.  Is there a case for creating a separate list of such works?  --  JackofOz (talk) 02:07, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe something like "Composers known primarily for one work".  --  JackofOz (talk) 02:09, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Revisited

message: I seem to recall from the Guiness book of Hit singles that they considered records by duets, such as Bowie/Jagger's "Dancing in the streets" as one hit wonders" as it is the only hit that that duo have had together.  Is this worth entering - I am sure there are loads of others. --C Hawke 07:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know this discussion is now old, but it now more pertinent than ever, given 12 years after this topic was raised we are now living in the era of 'Artist A feat. Rapper B'. Half of all top 10 songs at any given time are Someone feat. Someone Else, and most of these pairings are one-offs. All one-hit wonders? Rhianna feat. Kanye West? One-hit wonder? Surely not.Robbmonster (talk) 16:59, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duets 

message: Removed the reference to them as one-hit wonders. They had at least 4 top 20 hits in the UK and in many countries around the world several hits in respective charts. They also had five gold and 2 platinum albums!!
Candy 18:04, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As one of the primary authors of The KLF I don't mind them being listed here, on the contrary in fact - I'm quite surprised they're deemed worthy of an entry. That said, were they actually one hit wonders in the US? 3 a.m. Eternal says that song charted at #5. #11 is claimed for Justified and Ancient with Tammy Wynette. Hardly meteoric success but unless you're discounting the Tammy collab, that's 2 top 40 hits. --kingboyk 18:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: @Candy: Heep didn't have any top 40 hit in the official UK single charts (but several albums). see everyhit.com --Yeahx3 (talk) 21:09, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Indeed there is two top 40 hits listed for The KLF. So then they're a two-hit wonder in the US.  Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 13:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uriah Heep 

message: This topic has STP on the list of One-hit wonder band. It says that STP had only one top forty hit. The band had fifteen top ten singles on the Billboard rock charts, including six # 1's, and one # 1 album on the pop charts (1994's Purple). I don't think that would make it a One-hit wonder band. I am going to remove STP from the list so that people don't actually believe that STP was a One-hit wonder band. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.142.172.150 (talk) 04:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stone Temple Pilots 

message: This article is très Amero-centric...relying on Billboard charts that aren't applicable to other countries. This article should deal with one-hit wonders in general, as a concept. I'm going to move the US-specific info (much of which I put in myself, I admit) over to One-hit wonders in the United States. --SigPig |SEND - OVER 15:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amerocentricity 

message: I've always been told that "American Pie" is the canonical "one-hit wonder" song for Don McLean.  I know he also did a few other songs, but to not mention him here seems a bit... empty. --Randal L. Schwartz 22:49, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: One, it's McLean, and two, I think "Vincent" was a pretty big hit in a lot of countries - it actually got to number one in the UK, which American Pie didn't (it got stuck behind Nilsson's "Without You"). -88.111.39.33 22:23, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agreed.  McLean barely missed being a One Hit Wonder; his career was a Two Hit Bit. Unschool 22:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He had two number ones in the UK - neither of which were "American Pie". So what's that - a three hit wonder?--82.0.207.86 (talk) 22:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Pie? 

message: Baltimora (with its one and only hit, the 1985 single "Tarzan Boy") is surely the "canonical" one hit wonder.  I don't see how this article can be complete with a reference to it!Bdell555 08:19, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baltimora "Tarzan Boy"

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message: Janis was never a one hit wonder. Both "Piece of My Heart" and "Me and Bobby McGee" made it into the top twenty with "McGee" going all the way to number one (It was after her death though which might be why). Not to mention she produced two number one hit albums that both stayed there for weeks. And although Jimi only had one top twenty hit in America, all four of his albums made it into the top five with Electric Ladyland peeking at number one for two weeks. Plus both of them were incredibally popular in the late sixties and into the seventies.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elwood17 (talk • contribs) 05:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Piece of My Heart" is credited to Big Brother and the Holding Company, not Janis Joplin  Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 13:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jimi and Janis were NEVER one hit wonders 

message: Eric Carmen had two other hits beside "All by myself" : "Make me lose control" and "Hungry eyes".
As for Men without Hats, not only "The Safety Dance", but also "Pop goes the world".
Andres65 (talk) 21:02, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eric Carmen? Men without hats?

message: Would Mountain be considered a one-hit wonder?  I'm sure they've had success with album sales and such, but as far as I know, "Mississippi Queen" was their only Top 40 hit, which would put them under Wayne Jancik's definition. - Cubs Fan (talk) 15:39, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mountain 

message: It is grossly false to call Nena a one-hit wonder without some qualification saying she's a one-hit wonder in English-speaking countries, or the like, and I'm told the same is true of some other artists listed here.  Nena has had huge numbers of hits in German-speaking countries and her many concerts are still selling out weeks in advance today.
: 
So the article should say somewhere very conspicuously that the data apply only to the USA or to English-speaking countries.  Where would be the best place to put that in this article, where the reader would find it hard to avoid seeing it? Michael Hardy (talk) 02:09, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the central problem with this type of article is that the actual meaning of the term varies and the artists listed may not be, strictly-speaking, "one-hit wonders" since they've had more than one hit somewhere in the world. It's not just an issue of English-speaking countries vs. the rest of the world. As others have pointed out, there are artists who have had one hit in the US, but more hits in the UK. Men Without Hats (mentioned above), had one US hit, but three in Canada. Likewise, non-English speaking acts, such as Nena, have had hits in their home country. There is a tag that can be placed on the article indicating that the term or use of the term in this context is not understood world-wide, but I think this is only a temporary measure and indicates the need to rewrite the intro to explain that many artists are perceived as one-hit wonders in a major market such as the US, but have in fact had more than one hit elsewhere. I'll place some tags on the article indicating that more work needs to be done, but this is just a stop-gap. One solution would be to include only acts who have had one hit world-wide, but really, how many of them are there? Starland Vocal Band comes to mind. But this may not work (the research involved would be difficult). I think an intro that outlines the difficulties of establishing criteria for categories such as this will be necessary, and perhaps subsections on one-hit wonders in major markets such as the US and the UK (plus the published lists that have come form media outlets in those markets). freshacconcispeaktome 15:16, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nena (and others) 

message: I'm a little curious as to how Whitesnake can be considered a two-hit wonder.  If you look at their discography, you will see they've had several singles hit the charts. BucsWeb (talk) 16:58, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that's incorrect. "Whole Lotta Love", "Immigrant Song", "Black Dog" and "D'yer Mak'er" were all Top 40 hits in the U.S.A. (But categorizing a band that sold a hundred-million albums as a "one-hit wonder" is ludicrous, anyways. It's antithetical to the spirit of the term.) Vonbontee (talk) 15:25, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Whitesnake?

message: I removed Radiohead from the list of artists that have only one top 40 hit but are known for something else, etc, etc because their song "Nude" reached #37 on the Hot 100 [here]. 67.177.184.125 (talk) 22:06, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Radiohead now has 2 hits

message: It is wrong to have a-ha on the list.
They have had 3 songs in top 40 in the USA ( Take On Me, The Sun Always Shines On TV, Crying in the Rain ). There are several charts in the USA. a-ha has reached nr 1 in several countries around the world, and has several top 10 and top 20 hits around the world, including the UK. Most notably a top 10 in 2005 in the UK. They have also had top 50 and top 100 in the USA. And why are only USA and UK charts included here ? Japan is the seconf largest record market in the world. Germany is also large. This page is highly questinable and should be deleted.Mortyman (talk) 00:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: a-ha

message: What is the point of this section? There are thousands of groups/singers who've had 2 hits, but how is this notable? And why does this list contain such a selection? I could probably name 100 off the top of my head.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 14:00, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Of the four songs you listed, only one even surpassed #40, according to that very discography, and none of them hit #1. Bearcat (talk) 08:01, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two hit wonder 

message: Shouldn't this be on the list somewhere? --24.21.148.212 (talk) 04:47, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Gnarls Barkley

message: Which artists went on to live off the royalties of, or made a career based on, the one hit? That would be interesting. EdX20 (talk) 21:01, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: When Don McLean was once asked what "American Pie" meant he replied that it meant he never had to work again :-) Mr Larrington (talk) 15:30, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  One Hit pensions? 

message: Noticed Jefferson Airplane being listed under the 2-hit wonders section.  While that's true under the Airplane moniker, I seem to recall that the group had other hits in the late 70s/early 80s as Jefferson Starship as well; does that still qualify them for this section? 76.103.148.132 (talk) 07:01, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jefferson Airplane? 

message: The authors of the article are obviously aware that there are many problems with the typical rankings. However, I would go further yet, and consider the
current article grossly misleading by giving the country specific perceptions
too much place. It is quite natural for e.g. a US listener to measure the
"hittiness" of a group/artist by their success in the US; however, this is a
naive misestimate. Any encyclopedic definition and treatment should take care
to focus on groups who are one-hit wonders in a more global perspective (or a
national for those who only ever made a national impact).
To illustrate this, consider the repeatedly mentioned Nena and her "Luftballons": Looking at the German WP page, she had a nr 17 hit (in Germany)
as late as last year and a nr 1 in 2005. In the first phase of her career,
she had six top-3 hits (including 99 Luftballons), and I suspect that it
is another one of them ("Irgendwo, irgendwie, irgendwann") for which she
is best known in Germany... Here in Germany, she is just a few notches short
of being a living legend.
(I am not clear on whether the many apparent non-entries in the listing are
true non-entries or whether they reflect missing data; however, the apparent
lack of success coincides with her moving from an act named "Nena" to a solo career using the same name, with a considerable drop in quality.)
Another striking example is "20 to 1: One Hit Wonders" and Billy Ray Cyrus,
who (whether deservedly or not) is one of the most successful US artists
of the last few decades.
94.220.241.228 (talk) 23:15, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misguided listings 

message: The section is awful and makes no distinction between bands with two hits that simply faded away and those who were highly influential on those who followed follow (Allman Brothers Band), genre defining bands (The Clash, Nirvana), and others that would have been excluded based on the one hit wonder criterion (Ozzy Osbourne). The section needs to be cleaned up or better yet removed as it constitutes originial research. Soxwon (talk) 16:34, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, IMO, if they made it to the rock and roll hall of fame, they're not two hit wonders. That would exclude Elvis Costello as well as Allman Bros. and The Clash. This list is a joke. Soxwon (talk) 22:26, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The list is US-centric, original research at its best and fails to provide a definition of what counts as a "hit". Two top thirty-something singles don't seem to be enough to be listed, especially if they only held this position for some weeks. It also fails to list some singles which disqualify an artist from being a two-hit wonder, e.g. De La Soul's The Magic Number (which charted higher than Me Myself and I). Don Cuan (talk) 20:03, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Hit Wonders 

message: There is a comment regarding Steve Martin...claiming that he was a singer before he became an actor. This is not necessarily a true statement. Before he was anything, he was a magician/comedian/salesman...getting his start while still a teenager working in walkway kiosks at Disneyland. His music was merely another method to his comedic style. His love of the banjo has been evident, not only on the majority of his early stand-up albums, but also in his performances in movies and television, dating back to his guest appearances on "The Tonight Show" with Johny Carson and in the formative years of Saturday Night Live, where he became wildly popular...not only with the audience, but with the network and the cast as well.  With regards to his "one hit wonder" with "King Tut," THAT was a musical release of the actual performance from Saturday Night Live. In 'A backstage History of Saturday Night Live," it is stated that during one of the weeks where he was the guest host, he presented producer Lorne Michaels with an idea he had been toying with his his mind. At that time, the treasures of King Tut's tomb were on tour in the United States, And Mr Martin was fascinated with the media circus surrounding its display.  He presented Lorne with the idea of doing a small musical number about the touring artifacts and wondered if it could be worked into the show somehow. What he didn't know at the time was that Lorne and the other writers had decided it was such a great concept that they made it into the centerpiece of show...complete with lavish sets and costuming. The song "King Tut" was recorded live during the show, then used on his next comedy album "One Wild and Crazy Guy," and released as a single. 
Following the strictness definition of the term "one-hit wonder," you could say that, yes, "King Tut" was Steve martins only "hit." But since, with very few exceptions, (Cheech and Chong, George Carlin) comedy bits themselves were very rarely played on the radio, this song was a true "bonus" for both Steve martin AND his record company in that now he was a major comedy act getting tremendous airplay which he otherwise would not have gotten had it not been for a novelty song thrown together at the last minute for a (at the time) small, late night, low-rated, low-budgeted and relatively unknown television show. His acting career was an outgrowth of the popularity generated by his SNL appearances...especially AFTER the "King Tut" performance, starting with 1978's "The Jerk." 
To state that Steve martin was a singer BEFORE he was an actor is simply misleading in that he was ALWAYS a singer...as part of his comedy persona. His singing was coupled with a comedy bits or routines, "Rambling Guy" being a good early example.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Subego (talk • contribs) 08:32, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: An example of similar situation would be Hugh Laurie, who was technically a musician (in the sense that he learned to play the piano) before he became an actor, but was already well-established as a comedy actor who happened to be able to play music long before releasing his hit album Let Them Talk.  Martin was a comedy writer and stand-up comedian long before "King Tut", so the statement that he was a singer "first" is misleading at best.72.34.128.250 (talk) 19:14, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steve Martin 

message: Shouldn't Simon_Dupree_and_the_Big_Sound be added here, as their fame rests upon their one big hit, Kites? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 16:41, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Simon Dupre and the Big Sound

message: "Gerardo has never had any hits in the UK at all, but he is still a highly honored performer in his homeland of Ecuador, as well as in other Latin American countries"
 
How does this disqualify him from the list? He has had no success in his musical career after "Rico Suave" so being an "honored performer" should not disqualify him. --76.237.181.73 (talk) 04:01, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gerardo 

message: "In the world of web analytics, one-hit wonder is used to describe a user who comes to a site from a search engine, views the piece of content he was searching for, and then leaves, never clicking an ad or engaging in any way with the site. The phenomenon is particularly germane with respect to publishers putting "paywalls" around content, and the recent struggles of news and newspaper publishers in the face of changes brought about by the Internet. The term was first used in this respect by web programmer Tim Burden on his blog,[3] and has also been used by news business pundit Jeff Jarvis.[4]"
No it isn't, this is called a bounce, as in the common web analytics term 'bounce rate'. Nowhere in web analytics is 'one-hit wonder' used.
You can see evidence for 'Bounce' being the accepted and only standard here (compare and contrast with what happens when you search for ["one hit wonder" analytics]):
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1009409?hl=en-GB  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.82.142 (talk) 16:30, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Technology" Section 

message: 19 albums over 3 decades, several of them making the charts. Cult following. At least 3 top 40 hits in the UK. It's true that Tubthumper was far more popular than anything else they released, but labelling them as a 1 hit wonder is very misleadingPignut (talk) 12:59, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chumbawumba 

message: The Kalin Twins are best known for their 1958 #5 hit "When." The song stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for 15 weeks. But they followed up quickly the same year with "Forget Me Not." This song also stayed on the Hot 100 for 15 weeks, and peaked at #12. There is no doubt that "When" is the far bigger hit, but calling the Kalin Twins "archetypal one-hit wonders" as the Kalin Twins Wikipedia page does, is out of line. "Archetypal", according to dictionary.com means  "perfect or typical as a specimen of something. being an original model or pattern or a prototype." This would mean that "Forget Me Not" was not a hit. Calling a #12 song a non-hit is erroneous. I'll agree it's not a huge hit, but a hit nonetheless. If you want to call the Kalin Twins one-hit wonders - maybe -- it fits by some definitions (such as only one top 10 song), but archetypal?? Not even close! H2izcool (talk) 22:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kalin Twins 

message: If you're interested in the topic, your comments would be appreciated at Talk:List of 2010s one-hit wonders in the United States#Inclusion criteria where there is a discussion with sweeping ramifications about whether the "one-hit wonder" articles will be based on charting songs or on artists described in sources. Binksternet (talk) 15:26, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  One-hit wonder inclusion criteria 

message: The opening section Music industry is a paean to the (apparently) pioneering journalistic work of the (apparently) unnotable Wayne Jancik. Therefore I have trimmed it back in a manner more suitable for a Wikipedia article. Weeb Dingle (talk) 08:57, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  less about Jancik 

message: A-ha's 1st, 2nd, 3rd albums succeeded to hit in the Europe. On the other hand, when it comes to Carly Rae jepsen, her representive song "Call Me Maybe" made a great hit worldwide, however, her all other songs and albums failed to hit.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.173.152.253 (talk) 13:42, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carly Rae Jepsen should be included in the main page, not a-ha. 

message: This is interesting stuff to be sure, but (opinion) if the phrase "one-hit wonder" does not appear in the sources (and several of the items have no sources at all) than I don't think they qualify for inclusion in this article.  I am inclined to remove the entire section but prudence dictated that I mention it here first. Carptrash (talk) 18:05, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: For example, in the "Darts" section we read, "was sometimes called a one-hit-wonder by the media" but the reference given does not use the term "one-hit wonder" so that is going to be the first section gone. Carptrash (talk) 16:37, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  the "Sports" section 

message: Seeing as "one-hit wonder" refers very specifically to individuals and groups that create musical recordings, there's no latitude to tack on non-musical usage of the term because that would be coatracking.
If sports fans have seen fit to address the term's misappropriation in the Wikipedia, and it's not merely a dictionary entry (WINAD), then there should be a See Instead link or a Disambig page; if they have not, then the trivia really does not belong here at all.
I hid the comment singling out Kirk Shepherd. This edges into BLP vio territory, substantiated only by a single throwaway comment from 2008, and not mentioned at all in Kirk Shepherd. Maybe there is a better source such as an actual published book.
The "cup of coffee" term is used to refer to players who made the "big league trip" repeatedly. So, very much a stretch to claim that such a trip is in any way "a hit" let alone that any of them is "the one." Using a popular misappropriation to shoehorn more sport in here is synthesis, correct? 
There is already List of players who played only one game in the NHL (larger than List of one-hit wonders in the United States) which only in its References mentions "one-hit wonders" which is equated to "one-game wonders." Nkofa (talk) 17:01, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The place of sport trivia 

message: @ADHDGinger As I've stated on your talk page, content on Wikipedia needs citations to reliable sources. In particular, for articles on "one-hit wonders", there needs to be  :3 F4U (they/it) 02:46, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncited addition 

message: Currently the article lists "viral hit" as alternative term, and while viral hits are often one-hit wonders, the terms are by no means interchangable.
For one, the vast majority of one-hit wonders had perfectly normal marketing, and simply failed to follow up their successful song. Arguably, most of them predate the concept of viral hits entirely
Also, some viral hits have been turned into long-term careers. Most successfully Old Town Road, but other examples include Gangnam Style (followed up by Gentleman (#5) & Hangover (#26)) & Crank That (Soulja Boy) (followed up by Kiss Me Thru The Phone (#3) & Turn My Swag On (#19))
I'll leave it there for now, but in my opinion these 2 terms are only vaguely related, is there any real reason to keep them? 82.5.237.207 (talk) 18:19, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  One-hit wonder vs Viral hit