I have heard people who don't follow music refer to Natalie Imbruglia as a one hit wonder, which I'm always quick to correct them on.

 

She *basically* is a one-hit wonder, barely anyone knows any of her songs bar Torn. :( Their loss.

 

Kate Nash is another one really. She obviously never had a hit quite like Foundations but no-one knows any of her other top 40 hits. :(

I would never view Natalie Imbruglia as a one hit wonder, the fact she had 3 relatively successful albums and a couple of top 10 hits in addition to top 40 hits shows it is not the case, while torn is great shiver is what i best remember her for.

'Big Mistake' is so totally her best song. :wub:

Alien Ant Farm are very much in the Wheatus camp of one album wonders. I heard "Movies" the other day, it still sounds great.

Chris Brown :basil:

 

Nah, he definitely used more than one hit... :P

Bomfunk MC's are well known for their #2 hit Freestyler, although their follow-up hit Up Rocking Beats made #11.

 

Also, Baha Men had two additional top 20 hits following "Who Let The Dogs Out".

Sinead O'Connor has had another five top 20 hits along with Nothing Compares 2 U, one of them came just six years ago as a guest on 'Illegal Attacks' by Ian Brown.

Edited April 25, 201312 yr by Chez Wombeux

Shiver was played so much in 2005, I reckon people will think of that when it comes to Imbruglia as well as torn, if nothing else.

City High - What Would You Do is a quite well-remembered song, but their follow-up Caramel is not well-remembered at all.

Believe it or not, these are one-hit wonders in the US (only one US top 40 hit)

 

Status Quo (Pictures of Machstick Men)

Jimi Hendrix (All along the Watchtower)

T-Rex (Get It On)

Kraftwerk (Autobahn)

Roxy Music (Love is the Drug)

Boney M (Rivers of Babylon)

Talk Talk (It's my Life)

Kate Bush (Running up that Hill)

Iggy Pop (Candy)

Beck (Loser)

Cypress Hill (Insane in the brain)

The Offspring (Come out and Play)

Take That (Back for Good)

Garbage (Stupid Girl)

The Prodigy (Firestarter)

Fatboy Slim (Praise You)

Westlife (Swear It Again)

Mandy Moore (I Wanna be with You)

Moby (Southside)

P.O.D. (Youth of the Nation)

Korn (Did My Time)

Joss Stone (Cry Baby)

Papa Roach (Scars)

Gorillaz (Feel Good Inc.)

Weezer (Beverly Hills)

Snow Patrol (Chasing Cars)

Panic! At The Disco (I Write Sins not Tragedies)

White Stripes (Icky Thump)

Amy Winehouse (Rehab)

Jennifer Hudson (Spotlight)

Muse (Uprising)

Michael Bublé (Haven't Met You yet)

Florence & The Machine (Dog Days are Over)

 

Most people don't know that Cornershop had another song.

Believe it or not, these are one-hit wonders in the US (only one US top 40 hit)

 

Florence & The Machine (Dog Days are Over)

 

Florence sans The Machine has recently had another (bigger) hit with 'Sweet Nothing' though of course.

 

Some rather shocking ones on this list! (I already knew a lot of them but it still surprises me when I remind myself the likes of Muse and Amy Winehouse are technically one hit wonders in the USA).

No Mercy actually had another top 5 hit believe it or not.

Florence sans The Machine has recently had another (bigger) hit with 'Sweet Nothing' though of course.

 

Some rather shocking ones on this list! (I already knew a lot of them but it still surprises me when I remind myself the likes of Muse and Amy Winehouse are technically one hit wonders in the USA).

 

Well Muse has another top 50 hit (Madness)

 

Some of the songs on N-S's list are not even the best known songs by those artists

 

Cry Baby for Joss Stone -> charted well because of the Grammy performance

Icky Thump for White Stripes -> good download sales for a week or two

Scars for Papa Roach -> their first charting song Last Resort was big airplay success

 

'Big Mistake' is so totally her best song. :wub:

 

Hell yeah it is :heart:

Both Len and Crazy Town did chart follow-ups to their big hits in the UK but not elsewhere (in fact Crazy Town are true one-hit wonders in the US).

DJ Otzi (Hey Baby)

Fragma (Toca's Miracle)

Sisqo (Thong Song)

Ian Van Dahl (Castles In The Sky)

Ultra Nate (Free)

Dario G (Sunchyme)

The Cardigans (Lovefool)

Darude (Sandstorm)

Solid Harmonie (I Want You To Want Me)

Samantha Mumba (Gotta Tell You)

Victoria Beckham (Out Of Your Mind)

N-Trance (Set You Free)

Corona (Rhythm Of The Night)

Shola Ama (You Might Need Somebody)

Whigfield (Saturday Night)

Haddaway (What Is Love)

Olive (You're Not Alone)

Lutricia McNeal (Ain't That Just The Way)

DJ Quicksilver (Bellissima)

Lasgo (Something)

Blu Cantrell (Breathe)

Stonebridge (Put Em High)

Shaft (Mucho Mambo)

Maxx (Get-A-Way)

Robert Miles (Children)

I would say most of those have other sizeable hits that are long forgotten, however I'd say 'My Favourite Game' and 'Always Come Back To Your Love' are still very well known, maybe 'Baby Baby' by Corona too.

Everytime You Need Me, Will I, Dream To Me, My Favourite Game, Feel The Beat, Stranded and One & One don't deserve to be forgotten :( I like them all more than those artists biggest hits!

These are the ones that spring to mind:

 

Eiffel 65 (Blue, had another Top 5 hit)

Shakespears Sister (Stay, actually had three other Top 20 hits)

Right Said Fred (I'm Too Sexy, had four other Top 20 hits including a #1)