Would The Wonders (fictional – That Thing You Do) have actually been “one hit wonders”? I’ve been re-listening to the soundtrack for the movie again and I can’t convince myself that a couple of the other tracks wouldn’t have made it somewhere on the charts; specifically “Dance with Me Tonight” and “I Need You (That Thing You Do)”. I don’t really mean this in the context of if the band stayed together, but with what tracks we were g…

“One-hit wonders” who weren’t actually one-hit wonders. A OHW is defined as someone who had one hit song, with the criteria being one hit that reached the top 40. Judging by this criteria alone, several artists and bands thought to be OHW’s had more than one hit. Carly Rae Jepsen: “Good Time” and “I Really Like You”(ft. Owl City) reached #8 and #39, respectively. Rick Astley: 7 songs other than “Nev…

One album wonders I quite often find it daunting when I discover a ‘new’ band and there’s already 5 albums worth of material to go through. Interested to hear other peoples nominations for a one album wonder, might discover some awesome new stuff. Not necessarily commercial successes, just an artist with one album to their name. So which bands came in, rocked you…