45 Iconic One-Hit Wonders From the Past 50 Years
By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News
On 2/2/21 at 6:30 PM EST
We re all familiar with the one-hit wonder that artist who storms onto the music scene with a smash hit, only to disappear as soon as he or she arrived. Some one-hit wonders continue making music for years but never manage to produce another successful song. Others leave the industry altogether after their mega-hits, cashing in their earnings and quitting while they re ahead. A few artists on this list may have gone on to release more hit songs, had their lives not been cut short.