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For every artist who's a One-Hit Wonder – that is, an artist who is primarily known for one successful song and are never truly heard from again – there is the Two-Hit Wonder. Those are the artists who have one really big single, and another song, often but not always the follow-up, is just as big, perhaps even a bigger smash hit than the first. But like the one-hit wonder, success is fleeting for the two-hit wonder and the artist is unable to keep up the momentum. As with one-hit wonders, two-hit wonders on the American charts may be a different story in other countries. For that matter, many American artists have only charted once in their homeland but are popular in Europe (or vice versa: European artists that were more popular in the United States). Likewise is the case of artists from other genres – most notably, country – who have had countless hits in their own genre but when it comes to the mainstream Top 40, they've had only a handful of successes. There are countless examples, so this article will only list a handful of representative samples. Compare No-Hit Wonder (wherein an artist manages long-term success without even so much as one big hit), Hitless Hit Album (where an artist has a hit album with no hit songs) and contrast Breakthrough Hit, where one hit leads to a string of later hits. To qualify as a Two-Hit Wonder, the second hit must be at least 5 years old or the creator/artist must have retired or disbanded. |
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Lionel Wilson did numerous voices in animation during his long career, but is only known for two: Tom Terrific, where he voiced every single character, and Courage the Cowardly Dog, where he voiced Eustace for the first 3 seasons, which was his final role before retirement (and death). Those two cartoons were produced over 40 years apart. | |
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Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall is known in the US for just two songs: "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" and "Suddenly I See." | |
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By no stretch of the imagination are Foreigner one or two hit wonders, but frontman Lou Gramm is as a solo artist thanks to "Midnight Blue" and "Just Between You and Me". | |
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That said, a third single – "Holiday Road" – is well known, despite its low charting position (No. 82 on the Hot 100); it can be heard during the opening of the classic comedy film National Lampoon's Vacation starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo. | |
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Jenji Kohan had two major hit series, Weeds and Orange Is the New Black. Of course, while the latter is far better known than the former, she's rarely considered a one-hit wonder for it. | |
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Scott Weigner is mainly remembered for two roles, Steve Hale and the titular Aladdin. | |
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Carly Rae Jepsen, a former contestant on Canadian Idol, was known as a moderately successful musician in Canada when she released the song "Call Me Maybe". One Justin Bieber tweet later and it was topping singles charts worldwide and a massive pop-culture phenomenon. She followed it up with the Owl City duet "Good Time" which, while not as massive as "Call Me Maybe" was another big hit as well. Unfortunately, she remained so closely tied to her megahit that she was ultimately perceived as a novelty act, and she's commonly remembered as a one-hit wonder for "Call Me Maybe". Thus, the public dumped her in a jiffy. She attempted a Career Resurrection three years later with "I Really Like You", which spent one week in the top 40 at #39. Nowadays, "Like" is much less well known than its follow-up "Run Away with Me", which never made the Hot 100 but received rave reviews from critics and inspired a meme on Vine. | |
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Maile Flanagan, who is mostly known for voicing the titular character of Naruto and playing Principal Perry on Lab Rats. | |
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Board game designer Donald X. Vaccarino had two significant hits with Dominion and Kingdom Builder. Even then, Dominion overshadows Kingdom Builder work thanks to its influence and longevity. | |
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The Beautiful South, while massively successful in their native UK, only ever made it twice on the singles charts across the pond; "We Are Each Other" and "You Keep It All In" both cracked the top 20 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. After this, nothing else. | |
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Major Lazer seems to be headed in this direction akin to Avicii. In 2015, they had a massive worldwide hit with "Lean On", which topped the charts in countless countries while peaking at #4 Stateside. Their next big hit, 2016's "Cold Water", debuted in the top 2 in most countries, likely because it featured Justin Bieber. Since "Water" will be more associated with Bieber than with Major Lazer, "Lean On" will likely remain their signature. | |
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Maurice Gosfield will be known among TV buffs for his two roles: Private Doberman in The Phil Silvers Show and Benny the Ball in Top Cat (who was an animated Expy of Doberman). | |
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Tracy Chapman: One of adult-alternative's biggest female pioneers also saw mainstream success with two songs. First, "Fast Car" became a surprise hit in the summer of 1988 and earned her a Grammy for Best New Artist. Eight years later, in 1996, "Give Me One Reason" became an even bigger hit than "Fast Car" was. That was the last time she ever had pop radio success. Today, she is mostly remembered for "Fast Car". | |
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Chief Keef's two breakout singles, "I Don't Like" and "Love Sosa", surprisingly enough, never actually made their way to the Top 40 - "Sosa", the more successful of the two, only made it as far as #56 - but you wouldn't guess that based on how ubiquitous those two songs were during parties from the era they were released in. He remains mostly known for just those two songs to the wider pop sphere, but is still very well respected among rap circles (a good chunk of rap fans being easily able to name other songs from him, including "Faneto", "Save Me" and "Earned It", among others) | |
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Rupert Holmes: After "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" topped the charts in 1979 and 1980, he followed it up with a second top 10 hit, "Him". A third song off the same album ("Answering Machine") hit the lower reaches of the Top 40, but no more hits followed, and he is now considered a one-hit wonder for "Escape"... at least in the pop music world. Holmes went on to greater success writing Broadway plays and musicals, most notably Drood, and also is remembered as the creator of the AMC TV series Remember WENN. | |
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Tom Fontana had two successful shows with Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz.note He also worked on St. Elsewhere, but was merely a writer instead of a creator or showrunner Since the latter's 2003 ending, none of his other projects have lasted longer than two years. | |
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The Time: They had two top 20 hits: the #20 "Jungle Love" from 1984 and their 1990 reunion single "Jerk-Out", which hit #9. Ironically, the former is today by far the better-remembered of the two despite peaking much lower on the charts, mainly due to its prominent usage in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. | |
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Steve Earle, one of the pioneers of Alternative Country in The '80s, was only able to score two big hits at country radio: "Guitar Town" and "Goodbye's All We've Got Left". His best-known song "Copperhead Road" did not enter the country charts but was a top ten smash on the Mainstream Rock chart. | |
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Al Stewart has released several folk-rock albums (many influenced by historical events). However, only "Year of the Cat" and "Time Passages" reached the Top 10. Although he had a handful of minor hits, his fame rests on these two songs. | |
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The Cranberries had only two US Top 40 hits with "Linger" and "Free to Decide"/"When You're Gone". They would've averted this with "Dreams" and "Zombie" had airplay-only singles been eligible to chart at the time, though they fared better in the rock charts. | |
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Muppet performer Jerry Nelson is another two-hit wonder who had neither hit under his real name. In 1977, he sang "Halfway Down the Stairs" as Robin the Frog from The Muppet Show, and went to #7 in the UK (the single was credited to "The Muppets" although Robin was the only character featured on the track). Seven years later, the theme song from Fraggle Rock reached #33 in the UK, with Nelson singing in character as Gobo Fraggle. | |
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Trace Adkins is by no means a two-hit wonder on country radio, but he only had two top 40 hits on the Hot 100: 2006’s “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk� and 2008’s “You’re Gonna Miss This�. | |
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Far East Movement had a surprise megahit in 2010 with their club anthem "Like a G6", which topped the charts and sold over 10 million digital downloads worldwide. Their follow-up "Rocketeer", which featured vocals from Ryan Tedder, reached the top 10 but has mostly been forgotten about today. Afterwards, they faded back into obscurity, with only one near-Top 20 hit with "Live My Life" solely due to a Justin Bieber feature. All their other singles bombed and their follow-up album barely scratched the Billboard 200. Today they're commonly regarded as a one-hit wonder for "Like a G6". | |
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David Moo became known for being the (polarizing) English voice of Xellos from Slayers, his biggest claim to fame... then he voiced Sanji in the 4 Kids dub of One Piece. The negative reaction of his performance is generally seen as causing him to retire (and apparently take up bar-tending), though it's never been confirmed | |
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Buddy Jewell, the first winner of Nashville Star had two big hits with his first two singles "Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey's Song)" (which briefly held the record for the highest-debuting single by a new artist on the Hot Country Songs chart) and "Sweet Southern Comfort", but nothing of note afterward. | |
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Andrew Davis has directed several films before and since, but has never recaptured the critical and box-office success of Under Siege in 1992 and The Fugitive a year later. | |
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Brian Wilde is remembered for two classic British sitcom roles: Mr Barrowclough in Porridge and Foggy Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine. | |
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Bob the Builder: the children's character voiced by Neil Morrissey had a UK Christmas number one in 2000 with an extended version of his theme song "Can We Fix It?", which was the biggest selling single of the year. The next year, he had another number one hit with a rewritten version of "Mambo No. 5" by Lou Bega. In 2008, a third song "Big Fish Little Fish" was released, but only peaked at 81. | |
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Spin Doctors had two hits with their first two releases: "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" and "Two Princes" from 1992-93. "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast" nearly missed a couple years later at #42. | |
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Australian-born rapper Iggy Azalea had two major hits in 2014, the chart-topping "Fancy" with Charli XCX and "Black Widow" with Rita Ora. Her only other Top 40 hits included Ariana Grande's Problem, which wasn't her hit, "Beg for It" with MØ and "Pretty Girls" with Britney Spears; which didn't go top 20, and triple offenders, Jennifer Lopez's "Booty" and T.I.'s "No Mediocre". Not even a year after her two big hits, she was hit with a massive backlash that prevented her from getting a third big hit. She attempted to make a comeback with "Team", but it only peaked at #42 and fell off the charts rather quickly. | |
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Matthew Davis is Warner from Legally Blonde and Alaric from The Vampire Diaries. | |
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Todd Durham is known only for creating the Hotel Transylvania franchise and Lord Buckethead, the latter of which was co-opted by various populist political satirists in the UK as a satirical political candidate. | |
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Rhett Akins with "That Ain't My Truck" and "Don't Get Me Started", his only big hits as a singer from 1995 and 1996, respectively. But as a songwriter from about 2006 onward, he's had plenty more — including a few for his son, Thomas Rhett. | |
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Clarence Carter had two major R&B crossover hits on the pop charts, the breakup anthem "Slip Away" and his cover of Chairmen of the Board's "Patches". He is also well known for his raunchy Christmas hit "Back Door Santa" and the even raunchier "Strokin’" (best known for its appearances in The Nutty Professor (1996) and Killer Joe). | |
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Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko created the smash hit Avatar: The Last Airbender, then they made a Sequel Series The Legend of Korra. All they've really done otherwise is minor work on shows like Family Guy. | |
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Compton-born The Game had two massive crossover hits in the mid-00s, both of which featured eventual Evil Former Friend 50 Cent — "How We Do" and "Hate It or Love It". He also had two other minor hits with "Dreams" and "My Life", but neither are well-remembered today. | |
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Disclosure is massively popular in their native UK but stateside they are perhaps best known for two songs; the Sam Smith-backed pop crossover "Latch" and the Lorde-backed alternative crossover "Magnets". Since the former was technically their only Top 40 hit, they are often dismissed as a One-Hit Wonder. | |
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Cassadee Pope, formerly the frontwoman of the pop-punk band Hey Monday, won season 3 of The Voice and channeled that into the late 2013-early 2014 hit "Wasting All These Tears", which hit #10 on the country charts and entered top 40 on the Hot 100. While none of her other solo efforts went anywhere, she re-surfaced in early 2016 as a duet partner on Chris Young's #1 hit "Think of You". | |
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Eleanor Audley played two of the most iconic villainesses in Disney animation history, Lady Tremaine and Maleficent. She had a small recurring role on Green Acres and voiced Madame Leota for The Haunted Mansion ride, but they don't come close to being as iconic. | |
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Wayne Massey, an actor-singer (One Life to Live), recorded two albums for Mercury Records, but none of his solo releases went anywhere. However, he paired up with his more famous wife, 1980s hit-maker Charly McClain (best known for "Who's Cheatin' Who"), and they had two hits together: "With Just One Look in Your Eyes" and "You Are My Music, You Are My Song", both from 1985. | |
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While a very big name in the world of EDM, Swedish DJ Avicii only got two songs into the American Top 40. "Wake Me Up!", which holds the record for the biggest EDM hit in history (a feat only rivaled by Major Lazer's "Lean On" two years later), topped many charts and placed at #4 on the Hot 100. Later, his follow-up "Hey Brother" wasn't quite as big as its predecessor, but it was enough to hit #16. All singles since then have fizzled out at the bottom reaches of the Hot 100 at best (largely due to radio executives screwing him over to give the former song near-unprecedented recurrent airplay) and he is remembered by mainstream audiences as a one-hit wonder for "Wake Me Up!" (and if he is considered a two-hit wonder, "Levels" is usually cited as the second hit), but he was a huge name in the electronic scene. | |
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Larry Shue was a stage actor who also worked as a playwright on the side, and he wrote two popular farces, The Nerd and The Foreigner, that have long been staples of school and community theatre acting troupes. His career was tragically cut short when he died in a 1985 plane crash at age 39. | |
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Filter, the rock side project of Nine Inch Nails' Richard Patrick, had a few hits on the rock charts in the '90s, but today, only two songs of theirs are well remembered: 1995's highly controversial "Hey Man, Nice Shot" and the 1999/2000 crossover hit "Take a Picture" (which technically was their only Top 40 hit). | |
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Michael Sembello hit #1 on the Hot 100 with "Maniac" from the massively successful soundtrack to Flashdance. After quickly inking a deal with Warner Bros. for a full-length album and continuing work with producer Phil Ramone, he put out "Automatic Man," which got heavy airplay on MTV, but only hit #34 on the Hot 100. Today, "Maniac" is better remembered as, by far, his biggest hit. | |
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Love and Rockets: They had a modest hit in 1987 with "No New Tale to Tell", then a smash hit with "So Alive" in 1989, before a Genre Shift to a more electronic sound drove most of their fans away. | |
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The George Baker Selection was massive in its native Netherlands, but its only American hits were 1970’s “Little Green Bag� (of Reservoir Dogs fame) and 1976’s “Paloma Blanca�. | |
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Kansas were massively popular during the 1970s and 1980s and still hugely respected by many classic rock fans. However, to most modern-day casual audiences, their reputation rests almost entirely on two songs: "Dust in the Wind" and "Carry On Wayward Son." Even more ironic is that while "Dust" outpeaked "Carry On" by four chart positions, the latter is unquestionably the more recognizable of the two songs today. | |
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Scorpions scored their first hit in 1984 with "Rock You Like a Hurricane", which reached #25 on the pop charts. In 1991, the German group scored another hit, "Wind of Change," which peaked at #4. | |
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Madness: Of their three charting songs in the United States, the Black Sheep Hit "It Must Be Love" hit #33 in 1981 and "Our House" reached #7 in 1982 while "The Sun and the Rain" peaked at #72 early in 1983. Back home in the UK, however, they weren't even close to Two Hit Wonders, scoring countless Top 20 hits. | |
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Skid Row: They had two top 10 hits, with the ballads "18 and Life" and "I Remember You", and never made the Top 40 again. A uniquely self-imposed example than most; their follow-up album, Slave to the Grind, was a deliberately heavier album, though it still ended up debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200, the first album ever to do so since Billboard adjusted album sale tracking methodologies. | |
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Rickey D'Shon Collins is remembered solely for his roles in two popular animated series, Vince LaSalle from Recess, and Tucker Foley from Danny Phantom. | |
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Oliver! became an overnight sensation in the summer of 1969, when his recording of "Good Morning Starshine" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July of that year, sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. a month later. That fall, "Jean", a softer, ballad single bested his previous effort by one, reaching No. 2 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart. It also sold over one million copies, garnering Oliver his second gold disc in as many months. He never enjoyed the same success with any other song, however, retiring from the music industry in the 1980s. He died of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. Today, he is remembered mainly for singing the two aforementioned songs. | |
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Soul Asylum made it to #5 on the Hot 100 in 1993 with the acoustic rock anthem "Runaway Train", which had An Aesop regarding missing children, famously depicted by its music video showing photographs of missing children and a number to locate them. The song also nabbed them a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1994. Their next hit was "Misery", which hit #20 in 1995 and was quickly forgotten. While they did have a few hits on the rock and alternative charts, including the #6 Alternative/#4 Mainstream Rock hit "Black Gold" in 1992 (the basis for "Weird Al" Yankovic's "The Night Santa Went Crazy"), "Runaway Train" and "Misery" were their only Top 40 crossover hits. Today, they are remembered as a one-hit wonder for "Runaway Train". | |
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Staind has been one of the biggest metal bands on the market since their debut, but technically only had two top 40 hits on the pop charts, their signature “It’s Been Awhile� and the 2003 lead single “So Far Away�. “Technically� is the key word here, as Billboard's strict rules on recurrency prevented “Right Here� from entering the charts after concluding its rock radio run when it unexpectedly became a pop and Hot AC radio for the group. | |
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Swedish singer Tove Lo has a large following, but her only Top 40 hits are "Habits (Stay High)" and "Talking Body". She was featured on Alesso's "Heroes" and Nick Jonas's "Close", but neither really count as her hit. | |
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British indie pop band Bastille had multiple hits in Europe in the 2010s, but they only had two Top 40 crossovers in the United States. In fact, they briefly entered One Hit Wonder status, as there was over a five-year gap between the release of "Pompeii" and Marshmello collab "Happier". | |
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Jordan Fry played Mike Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and voiced Lewis Robinson in Meet the Robinsons. This was essentially his entire Hollywood career. | |
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Jason Earles is best known for playing Jackson Stewart in Hannah Montana and Rudy Gillespie on Kickin' It. | |
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British alternative pop singer Little Boots was one of the most hyped acts in British music in 2008-2009, with her idiosyncratic mix of disco, synth-pop and indie rock stylings drawing the interest of critics and the general public alike. She had two back-to-back Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart in 2009, with the #13 "New in Town" and the #6 "Remedy", while another single, "Earthquake", missed the UK Top 40 by a long shot. However, those would be her last significant hits. She took four years off between her debut and her second album, and her momentum had long dried up by the time the latter was released. Today, "New in Town" and "Remedy" remain her only Top 40 hits in the UK, though she still maintains a cult following. | |
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Joe Jackson (not to be confused with the Jackson family patriarch) had a few hits in his career, but the only two that are still remembered today are 1979's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" and 1982' "Steppin' Out". His song "Got The Time" was later Covered Up by Anthrax. | |
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Swedish band The Cardigans are a One-Hit Wonder on pop in the US, with "Lovefool" being their only success on the mainstream format. That said, they've managed two hits on modern rock — The aforementioned "Lovefool" which hit #9, and "My Favourite Game" from their follow-up album, which reached #16. Afterwards, they never saw an American chart again, though they've managed to remain popular in their native Sweden. | |
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Curtis Mayfield: Despite being a highly influential R&B singer, he had only two major pop hits, "Freddie's Dead" and "Superfly," both from the film Superfly.. His biggest UK hit however was Move On Up, as sampled by Kanye West for his hit "Touch the Sky". | |
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Murray Head: A British actor (yes, that is his name) had exactly two chart hits, both making the top 40 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100: 1971's "Superstar" (the title song from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, in which Head appeared as Judas Iscariot, betrayer of Jesus Christ) and his 1985 new wave hit "One Night in Bangkok" (from the rock musical Chess, in which Head played a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Bobby Fischer). | |
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In 2006 and 2008, British singer Natasha Bedingfield had two hits in the U.S. with "Unwritten" and "Pocketful of Sunshine" respectively, which both peaked at #5. Two more songs, "These Words" and "Love Like This", made the Top 20, but are forgotten today. Afterwards, she completely fell out of the public's eye outside a 2011 guest appearance on Rascal Flatts' "Easy" (#3 country, #43 pop). She is more successful back home, however. | |
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Daya had two hits in 2016 with “Hide Away� and “Sit Still Look Pretty�. While she’s also known as the vocalist for The Chainsmokers’ hit “Don’t Let Me Down�, it technically wasn’t her hit and can’t disqualify her two-hit wonder status. | |
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Robin Thicke only had two songs that reached the Top 20; "Lost Without U" released in 2007 which peaked at #14, and "Blurred Lines" (featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I.) released in 2013 which topped the Billboard charts (along with many other charts) and was the best-selling single of that year. Since his latest album was a flop and the former song was virtually unknown outside of R&B audiences, his latter song will likely make him one of the biggest examples of a modern one-hit wonder in the public's eye. He also had a #25 song with "Give It 2 U" (featuring Kendrick Lamar) that was forgotten almost instantly. | |
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B2K, an R&B boy band, topped the Hot 100 in 2003 with the Sean "P. Diddy" Combs collaboration "Bump, Bump, Bump". After that, they had a #15 hit with "Girlfriend" before they vanished into obscurity. Aside from those two, the rest of their Hot 100 entries either scraped the lower ends of the Top 40 or missed it completely (though their 2001 debut single "Uh Huh" reached #4 in Canada). Today, "Bump, Bump, Bump" is now particularly infamous because it kept Christina Aguilera's much-acclaimed LGBTQ+ community anthem "Beautiful" from reaching #1 on the Hot 100. | |
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Neon Trees: In 2010, they scored a surprise hit with "Animal" off of their debut album Habits, which charted at #13 and went 2x platinum. They then released "Everybody Talks" off their sophomore effort, Picture Show which charted even higher at #6 and also went 2x platinum. Those were the only two songs of theirs you were likely to hear on the radio, though "Your Surrender" and "Lessons in Love (All Day, All Night)" saw minor pop radio airplay. Their luck eventually came to an end, as "Sleeping With A Friend", the lead single off their third album Pop Psychology only charted at #51 and failed to reach any certification, while the rest of the singles went completely unnoticed. | |
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Eric Fogel created the smash hit Celebrity Deathmatch and co-created another fairly big hit in the form of Glenn Martin, DDS. His other two shows, The Head and Starveillance, didn't do as well with critics or in ratings. All he's really done otherwise is minor work on shows like Wallykazam and Daria. | |
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Matt Cardle topped the UK Singles Chart in 2010 with "When We Collide" after he won the seventh series of The X Factor. A year later, he had a #6 hit with "Run for Your Life" before the public lost all interest in him. In 2013, he attempted a comeback with the Melanie C duet "Loving You", which reached #14, but it was quickly forgotten. Today, Cardle is mostly seen as "that guy who won the series of The X Factor that One Direction were formed in", though he's seen better success as a West End actor. | |
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John G. Avildsen had a long directorial career, but Rocky and The Karate Kid dominated it, to the extent that many of his other credits are either sequels to those two films, or films that blatantly tried to reuse the David Versus Goliath formula they'd established. | |
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Cinematographer Jan De Bont transitioned to directing with the 1994 smash Speed and followed it up with Twister two years later. His subsequent directorial efforts, starting with the ill-conceived Speed 2: Cruise Control, were critical and box-office disasters. | |
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Jaleel White is known for two roles: Steve Urkel in Family Matters and being the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog Satam, and Sonic Underground. | |
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Soft rock singer-songwriter Jack Johnson is a huge name on AAA radio, however, his only Top 40 hits in the US were 2006's "Upside Down" (from the Curious George soundtrack), which reached #38 and was certified platinum by the RIAA, and 2010's "You and Your Heart", which reached #20. | |
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Steppenwolf: The Canadian band had seven top 40 hits and three top 10s, but their two biggest hits, "Born to Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride", are all that they're remembered for today. "The Pusher", which didn't chart, is also well-known for its appearance in Easy Rider. | |
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Ithaca, New York-based X Ambassadors broke through in 2015 with "Renegades", which reached #17 on the Hot 100 and topped the Alternative and Hot AC charts. Then, the very next year, "Unsteady" reached #20 and became an equally-major crossover radio hit after a slow climb on the charts. These two songs pretty much sum up the band's legacy. Outside a minor guest spot on the #15-peaking song "Sucker For Pain" from Suicide Squad (2016) (which doesn't really disqualify their status), the band is relatively obscure, even to most casual alternative audiences. Their status seems unfortunately solidified now that their developmentally-troubled follow-up "ORION" failed to reach the top-100, and its singles hardly made any noise on radio. | |
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Tom Jones is a superstar on pop radio and especially in his native U.K., but had two big country hits with "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow" and "Touch Me (I'll Be Your Fool Once More)". | |
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North Carolina rapper Petey Pablo made it to #25 in 2001 with "Raise Up" before vanishing into obscurity. Then, a year or so later in 2003-04, he scored the #7 smash "Freek-a-Leek" before returning to obscurity. He also had a #1 hit as a featured artist on Ciara's "Goodies", but it wasn't his hit, so it can't really disqualify his two-hit wonder status. Any further hope of another hit was dashed when he was arrested in 2010 for trying to carry a stolen 9mm semi-automatic pistol aboard a US Airways flight bound for Los Angeles, for which he ended up serving 35 months in prison. | |
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Cream only had two crossover hits, "Sunshine of Your Love" and "White Room". Lead guitarist Eric Clapton later went on to have a hugely successful solo career. | |
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Twisted Sister are technically a One-Hit Wonder because only "We're Not Gonna Take It" hit the Top 40, but they are also remembered for another song from the same album, "I Wanna Rock" (which got to #68) - while technically there was a third Hot 100 entry, a cover of The Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" (which actually beat "I Wanna Rock", #53), it's mostly forgotten. | |
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Pierre Boulle was best known for two works, The Bridge Over The River Kwai (the novel that inspired The Bridge on the River Kwai) and Planet of the Apes. | |
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Fort Minor, the side-project of Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda, is primarily known for two songs — The soft pop crossover "Where'd You Go?" and the popular sports anthem "Remember the Name". While the former was technically their only hit, the latter is far better remembered. After that, the project went on an indefinite hiatus with no material being made for nearly a decade. However, Fort Minor has returned, so it's possible they might be able to produce another hit in the future. | |
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The Wreckers, a one-off pairing of pop singers Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp. They had two big hits: "Leave the Pieces" and "My, Oh My". The duo broke up after their only full album, and both resumed their solo careers. Branch herself was far more successful prior to the duo's foundation, with several hits on the pop charts such as "Everywhere" (2001) and "Are You Happy Now?" (2003). | |
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Before Lil Mama was out of her teen years, she scored two #10 hits: "Lip Gloss" and "Shawty Got Loose" during 2007-8. She has not charted since, and the latter song is completely forgotten today, likely because it featured T-Pain and Chris Brown, neither of whom are particularly popular anymore. As such, she is now considered a one-hit wonder for "Lip Gloss". | |
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Jana Kramer, an actress best known for playing Alex Dupre on One Tree Hill, had two country hits: "Why Ya Wanna" in 2012 and "I got the Boy" in late 2015-early 2016. Both were met with Follow-Up Failure. | |
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10cc: Just like the Mindbenders, Stewart's second group also had only two major American hits with 1975's "I'm Not In Love" and 1977's "The Things We Do for Love." Meanwhile, in the UK they had nine Top 10 hits, with three of them reaching #1. | |
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Tesla hit the top 10 with the ballad "Love Song" (no relation to The Cure or Sara Bareilles songs) and a cover of Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs". They were more successful on the Mainstream Rock chart, where they had 20 other hits through 2008 and were one of the few Hair Metal bands whose careers were completely unaffected by the rise of grunge. | |
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Andrew Gold is another unusual scenario. He had a #7 with "Lonely Boy" in 1977 and a #25 with "Thank You For Being A Friend" a year later. While "Lonely Boy" is still a '70s classic, it is "Thank You For Being A Friend" that is the better remembered of the two today as it is the theme to The Golden Girls. | |
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Storm Impact, a 1990s Macintosh software company, had only two successful products: the skiing game MacSki and the RPG TaskMaker. Executive Meddling and undercapitalization did the company in just after they rushed out an Obvious Beta of The Tomb of the TaskMaker, a sequel game to the first. | |
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Paul Overstreet is known as a singer almost entirely for two songs: the aforementioned guest vocal with Paul Davis on Tanya Tucker's "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love", and "Daddy's Come Around" in 1990. But like Davis, he was more successful as a songwriter; he also previously had a #1 hit as one-third of the trio S-K-O (Schuyler, Knoblock, and Overstreet) Overstreet's son Nash and Chord also have some claims to fame: the former was a member of the pop group Hot Chelle Rae, and the latter a cast member of Glee. | |
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The Dandy Warhols are quite popular in the U.K, but to American audiences are only known for "Bohemian Like You" and "We Used To Be Friends." While technically only the former charted the latter is best known from Veronica Mars. | |
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British singer Kim Wilde had plenty of hits in the UK and Germany, but in the US, she only had two. Her 1981 debut single "Kids in America" reached #25, while her cover of The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On", released five years later, topped the Billboard Hot 100. | |
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Norwegian new wave group a-ha had two top 40 hits in 1985: the #1 smash "Take On Me" led way to the #20 hit "The Sun Always Shines on TV". Since "Sun" is (in the U.S.) mostly forgotten today, a-ha is often considered a one-hit wonder for the former song. Of course, back in Europe (and especially their native Norway), they were absolutely massive. | |
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Matthew Moy is mainly remembered for two roles, Han Lee and Lars. | |
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Jaye Davidson received an Academy Award nomination for his acting debut in The Crying Game, and then took a million-dollar payday to play the villainous Ra in Stargate. He never acted again. | |
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Kathryn Beaumont was a child actress who had some live action bit parts before she was brought up by Disney to voice a pair of British girls in their animated features: the title character of Alice in Wonderland and Wendy Darling in Peter Pan. She still voiced them all the way to 2005 (the year she officially retired from those roles), which is a rarity for characters from films as old as those two (even though that's because most actors of that era are dead). | |
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Fantasia scored a #1 hit with "I Believe" in 2004 after winning the 3rd season of American Idol. She then scored a #21 hit, "Truth Is", before the general public lost interest in her, with only one Top 40 single since then, "When I See U" (which reached #31 and was forgotten almost immediately), and a number of singles that charted outside the Top 40 (including "Without Me", a collaboration with Kelly Rowland and Missy Elliott that was intended as Fantasia's mainstream comeback single). She's fared better on urban radio, though. | |
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The Rembrandts hit #14 in 1991 with "Just The Way It Is, Baby" before quickly vanishing. Then, their 1995 song "I'll Be There For You" hit #17 (and #1 on radio, only underperforming on the Hot 100 due to a late single release) after it was picked up as the theme song for the popular sitcom Friends. Today, much like the Paula Cole example above, the former is largely forgotten while the latter remains one of the decade's most recognizable songs thanks to the enduring popularity of the series it is attached to. | |
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Oleander had two major rock hits in 1999 and 2001 with "Why I'm Here" and "Are You There", respectively. Their success ran out after that, unfortunately, although "Fight" is somewhat well known from its use in WWE '12. | |
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