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  • 3 One-Hit Wonders That Anyone Who Was Young in the 60s Will Remember

    3 One-Hit Wonders That Anyone Who Was Young in the 60s Will Remember

    May 9, 2026, 10:30 am

  • FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - NOVEMBER 09: Vanilla Ice aka Rob Van Winkle attends the documentaries of 'Ice Ice, Baby Hip Hop's 1st Global #1" screening during the 37th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival at Savor Cinema on November 09, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by Johnny Louis/Getty Images)

    3 One-Hit Wonders Who Have Enjoyed 30-Year Careers

    May 9, 2026, 5:30 am

  • 1977: American R&B group The Floaters: James Mitchell, Paul Mitchell, Larry Cunningham, Charles Clark, Ralph Mitchell. (Photo by BSR Agency/Gentle Look via Getty Images)

    4 Times a One-Hit Wonder From 1977 Was Actually a Perfect Song

  • Portrait of American R&B & Disco singer Minnie Riperton (1947 - 1979), Los Angeles, California, 1975. (Photo by Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images)

    3 One-Hit Wonders That Changed the Way We Hear Love Songs

    May 8, 2026, 5:30 am

  • Mike Score from A Flock of Seagulls, 80s one-hit wonder

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    6 One-Hit Wonders From the 80s That Show You Only Need One Good Song to Define a Decade

    May 7, 2026, 2:05 pm

  • Frankie Goes To Hollywood, performing in Washington during their US tour, 8th November 1984. (Photo by Mike Maloney/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

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    3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1980s With Melodies That Still Echo Decades Later

    May 7, 2026, 5:30 am

  • (L-R) American musicians guitarist Paul Leary, drummer King Coffey and lead vocalist/keyboards Gibby Haynes, of the American rock band the Butthole Surfers, pose for a group portrait in New York, New York, August 1996. (Photo by Bob Berg/Getty Images)

    4 Times a One-Hit Wonder From the 1990s Was Actually a Perfect Song

    May 6, 2026, 4:33 pm

  • Loudon Wainwright III performing in the 1970s

    How a Universally Gross Experience Turned Into a 1972 One-Hit Wonder That “Paid a Lot of Child Support”

    May 6, 2026, 12:30 pm

  • Baha Men during 2000 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage)

    3 One-Hit Wonders From the 2000s With Choruses That Get Stuck in Your Head for Days

  • Photo by Maurice Seymour/Kraftwerk/Getty Images; NEW YORK - CIRCA 1975: German electronic group Kraftwerk (L-R Karl Bartos, Ralph Hutter, Wolfgang Flur and Florian Schneider) pose for a portrait circa 1975 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Maurice Seymour/Kraftwerk/Getty Images)

    3 Times a One-Hit Wonder From 1975 Was Actually a Perfect Song

    May 5, 2026, 9:44 am

  • MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 15: Gotye performs on stage at Manchester Apollo on November 15, 2012 in Manchester, United Kingdom. (Photo by Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns via Getty Images)

    3 One-Hit Wonders That Say More in One Line Than Others Do in a Whole Verse

    May 5, 2026, 5:30 am

  • Outdoor portrait of Norweigan pop band 'A-Ha'; (L-R) Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, May 1987. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    4 Times a One-Hit Wonder From the 1980s Was Actually a Perfect Song

    May 4, 2026, 3:04 pm

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