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The music business can be quite fickle. For every One-Hit Wonder, there's a fraction of acts who managed a streak of hits that lasts for decades, or at least a handful of big hits.
Then there's the No-Hit Wonder, an artist who proves commercially successful or at least manages to have a long career, without having a hit at all. While there are other ways an artist can achieve success besides having hits (such as album sales, concert attendance or the like), it's considered rare since album sales are generally driven by the popularity of individual songs, and artists with no hits tend not to develop enough of a fanbase to make their concerts well-attended. In many cases, a No-Hit Wonder will have had singles that never went anywhere on the charts, but which are still well-known and well-loved by a large number of people. See also Hitless Hit Album.
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Dream Theater has been successful for over 20 years, but they've only had one hit, "Pull Me Under." They mocked this with their Greatest Hits compilation "Dream Theater's Greatest Hit (and 21 Other Really Cool Songs)".
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CupcakKe is one of the most well known female rappers of the 2010s, and popular in the LGBT community. However, she hasn't even managed to score a song in the bubbling under hot 100, almost certainly because of how incredibly explicit her signature sound is.
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British-Jamaican rapper Slick Rick had a Gold-certified single with "The Show" in 1985, dominated the hip hop and R&B charts between 1988 and 2001,note His last big hit on the rap charts was "Girls, Girls, Girls (Part 2)", with Jay-Z, Q-Tip, Michael Jackson & Biz Markie. and all but one of his albums (Behind Bars, which peaked at #51) peaked in the top 40 of the Billboard 200. Despite this, he only has one top 100 single: the title track of Behind Bars, which only peaked at #87 before dropping off the chart.
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Mickey Guyton has been recording since 2014 but her best showing, "Better Than You Left Me", only barely cracked Top 40 on Billboard Hot Country Songs. Her 2020 single "Black Like Me" didn't even chart, but was nominated for a Grammy.
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Melanie Martinez has become massively popular on the internet since appearing on The Voice for her style of disturbing electropop. Her only charting entries on the Hot 100 were from 2012, which were a couple of covers that aren't even among her best-known songs (and certainly far less known than the original versions), and only scraped the bottom of the chart.
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Rush never made it higher on the Billboard 200 than "New World Man", which made it to #21 and was their only Top 40 hit (ironically, it was a throwaway song written and recorded quickly to even out the two sides of the cassette). They remained so popular and influential over 40 years of work that their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 was considered at least a decade overdue.
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Torrie Wilson was one of WWE's most popular Divas during the Ruthless Aggression Era - promoted as the top face of the SmackDown brand (except for 2006 when she was on Raw and a heel) - and memorable as both a Ms. Fanservice and a Diva that worked hard to become a better wrestler. As she was on SmackDown for most of her career - where the women were used more in eye candy roles - she never held the Women's Championship once. She also retired before the second female title belt - the Divas' Championship - was introduced (and rumors abound that it was created with her in mind). This sparked a debate when she was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2019, as her defenders argued that her popularity and visibility within the company justified an induction.
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Death Grips have some of the biggest and most loyal fanbases on the internet that often surpasses that of some mainstream artists, yet they never have an album debut on the top 40 on the main Billboard charts and they usually fall off the charts very quickly and none of their singles even chart on any Billboard charts. Considered how experimental and non-mainstream their music are and how they release the majority of their projects for free, this is completely justifiable.
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Jack Stauber is popular for his incredibly weird music videos, as well as his odd music. That offbeat style makes it unlikely he'll break into the mainstream, even if he has accumulated a growing fanbase on the strength of his YouTube channel.
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Hillbilly Jim was a talented and popular wrestler in the WWF during the 1980s, but never won a single title during his entire career. This was probably due to both his jokey gimmick and the domination of Hulk Hogan during the era.
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Slayer is one of the "big four" of Thrash Metal. Despite selling over five million albums in their native United States, they haven't even bubbled under or charted on mainstream rock.
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Funnily enough, this is actually somewhat averted with lead singer Johnny Gioeli's other band Hardline, which had several minor rock radio hits in the early-90s. They have mostly been forgotten except for "Hot Cherrie", thanks to its use in Peacemaker.
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Banks didn't have any of her songs reach the Hot 100, with only "Beggin For Thread" hitting #16 in the Bubbling Under charts, though it has seen some alternative radio airplay.
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"Indie" tastemaker being the key - although Peel was much respected, his influence on the mainstream was minimal, and a great many of the acts he championed suffered the same fate, from comedy song specialists Half Man Half Biscuit to British reggae group Misty In Roots. The band most associated with his patronage, The Fall, did actually avert the trope but did so with Covered Up versions of Kinks and R. Dean Taylor songs rather than their more idiosyncratic original material.
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The Wire was highly praised upon release and it's considered one of the best shows ever, yet its five seasons never won any major television awards, at most one from the Writer's Guild. The Emmys downright ignored the show aside from two Screenplay nods.
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Black Sabbath invented Heavy Metal and is one of the most popular and influential bands of all time. Their highest-charting hit on the US Hot 100 was "Iron Man", which only hit #51, though their debut single "Paranoid" hit #4 in their native UK in 1970. As a soloist, Ozzy Osbourne actually averts this, having two Top 40 hits (albeit, they are not in his normal style).
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Phish. They were one of the most successful live acts of the 1990s, and have continued to sell out arenas full of devoted fans into the 2020s. Unlike their jam band peers the Dave Matthews Band, Phish never had a mainstream pop hit. 2000's "Heavy Things" was a very minor hit on adult contemporary radio, and that was pretty much it for them as a pop act. Despite being primarily known as a live act whose appeal was in part due to their long improvisational jams, Phish released plenty of singles, but none of them did especially well. They weren't particularly successful on Billboard's two main rock charts either, with almost all of their radio support coming from the adult alternative format.
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Sum 41 was one of the biggest Pop Punk bands in the world during early-'00s. Their only charter in the US? "Fat Lip", which only reached #66.
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Rage Against the Machine was one of the most popular rock acts of the '90s and helped popularize Rap Metal, which led to the Nu Metal explosion that happened later in the decade. Highest charting single? "Bulls On Parade", which peaked at #62. This is averted in the UK, where "Killing in the Name" actually topped the charts at Christmas 2009... 17 years after its release, and only because of a Facebook campaign that used it to prevent another The X Factor winner from having a Christmas number one.
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Though Buckley would have had a hit if not for Billboard's rules regarding recurrents (which have since changed) because his cover of "Hallelujah" topped iTunes after being performed on American Idol, but it was deemed ineligible. It also bubbled under after its original artist, Leonard Cohen (himself an example of this trope), passed away in 2016.
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Cledus T. Judd, a country music parodist, has been constantly recording since 1995. He didn't even chart until 2000, and his best chart entry is #48 country. Yet he's recorded over a dozen albums and even had one go gold without a charting single.
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The video game EarthBound Beginnings had a full soundtrack released in Japan, with English vocals, mainly done with British unknowns. The most noteworthy was Catherine Warwick, who was 14 when she recorded "Pollyanna', "Bein' Friends" and "Wisdom Of The World". These songs are well-known now thanks to the EarthBound franchise gaining a worldwide following. However, her solo career after that tanked. Her first and only single release in the UK was the mediocre "Marine Boy" with b-side "Taxi Driver" which charted quite low and killed a solo career. She would show up a few years later as part of the girl duo Those 2 Girls, with this... with a b-side of this..... that also failed to chart and the group went nowhere. She vanished shortly after that and hasn't had a music career since nor has the EarthBound fan community even been able to locate her, and is now really only known for the EarthBound songs, and even those didn't become a worldwide hit until well over a decade after they came out in Japan. One could likely blame this on the fact she had talent, but her solo career wasted it on attempted pop hits that didn't showcase that talent.
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