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Entity that achieves mainstream popularity for only one piece of work

A one hit wonder is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success. The term is most commonly used in regard to music performers with only one hit single that overshadows their other work. Some artists dubbed "one hit wonders" in a particular country have had great success in other countries. Music artists with subsequent popular albums and hit listings are not properly considered a one hit wonder, although artists with multiple hits have sometimes been erroneously labelled as "one hit wonders" if one particular hit has become much more well remembered years or decades later than their other hits. One hit wonders usually see their popularity decreasing after their hit listing, and most often do not ever return to hit listings with other songs or albums.

In The Billboard Book of One Hit Wonders, music journalist Wayne Jancik defines a one hit wonder as "an act that has won a position on [the] national, pop, Top 40 record chart just once." Billboard magazine defines a U. S. one hit wonder as an "artist that cracks the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and never makes it back to that position." This formal definition can include acts with greater success outside their lone pop hit and who are not typically considered one hit wonders, while at the same time excluding acts who have multiple hits which have been overshadowed by one signature song, or those performers who never hit the top 40, but had exactly one song achieve mainstream popularity in some other fashion (that is, a "turntable hit" or a song that was ineligible for the top 40 charts).

In 2006, the Australian series 20 to 1 aired the episode "20 to 1: One Hit Wonders", a list of songs that had been the only one by that artist to have success in Australia. # Title Performer Year 1 "My Sharona" The Knack 1979 2 "Born to Be Alive" Patrick Hernandez 1979 3 "Video Killed the Radio Star" The Buggles 1979 4 "Turning Japanese" The Vapors 1980 5 "Funkytown" Lipps Inc. 1979 6 "Come on Eileen" Dexys Midnight Runners 1982 7 "Spirit in the Sky" Norman Greenbaum 1969 8 "99 Luftballons" Nena 1983 9 "Don't Worry, Be Happy" Bobby McFerrin 1988 10 "Pass the Dutchie" Musical Youth 1982 11 "Rockin' Robin" Bobby Day 1958 12 "Slice of Heaven" Dave Dobbyn and Herbs 1986 13 "Counting the Beat" The Swingers 1981 14 "Tubthumping" Chumbawamba 1997 15 "I'll Be Gone" Spectrum 1971 16 "Mickey" Toni Basil 1982 17 "Achy Breaky Heart" Billy Ray Cyrus 1992 18 "Venus" Shocking Blue 1969 19 "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of )" Lou Bega 1999 20 "Tainted Love" Soft Cell 1981

Note: not to be confused with the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles list from 1979 to 2001 which lists acts with their only Top 75 charting record being a number one hit. Several of these artists including The Proclaimers, Shakespears Sister, Haddaway, Kajagoogoo and Hanson have in fact had more than two Top Ten hits.

A UK poll of 2,000 music fans compiled by marketing research company OnePoll.

Classic Pop magazine's list only includes acts who made the UK's Top 40 (as compiled by Gallup) once only in their careers and does not include acts which feature members from other successful bands from the 1980s. The top ten is as follows:

The Official Charts Company's list of the biggest one hit wonder releases of the 2010s, is based on sales and streams. Like the Classic Pop list it uses the UK singles Top 40 chart as the cut off point. The top ten is as follows: