Discussions → One hit wonder or not - READ!

The Barenaked Ladies have like 4 hits in the US alone:

Pinch Me
One Week
The Old Apartment
If I Had A Million Dollars

Lifehouse has put out 3 hits breathing, spin, and hanging by a moment
Jimmy Eat world had 2-In the middle and pain
Train had a bunch- ordinary, calling all angels, drops of jupiter, meet virginia, shes on fire, and when i look to the sky
Five for fighting had 3-100 years, super man, and easy tonight

and whats up with barenaked ladies on there, they had 4 or 5 hits.

And yes, i am from the U.S.A.

thanks

Please explain how a biography of the Barenaked Ladies changes the fact that hey have had only one single in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10?

It is impossible for me to keep track of all charts in the US, so when I started this group I decided to go with Billboard. Period.

Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Iggy Pop, Beck and Radiohead have each had only one song in Billboard Magazine’s Top 40

I propose that we add those, especially Radiohead.

One-hit wonders are the artists/bands which have ONE big hit, whether it be on the charts, in marketing, on a soundtrack, what have you, the artist/band only has ONE recognizable song. When you think of Lou Bega, you think of Mamob #5. When you think of Tal Bachman, you think of She's So High. When you think of Norman Greenbaum, you think of Spirit in the Sky. And so on. But thats it. No other songs by such artists/bands come to mind.

Stevie Nicks, Barenaked Ladies, Jimmy Eat World, STEPPENWOLF, etc are all far from one-hit wonders.

Quoth MrModernRock:
One-hit wonders are the artists/bands which have ONE big hit, whether it be on the charts, in marketing, on a soundtrack, what have you, the artist/band only has ONE recognizable song. When you think of Lou Bega, you think of Mamob #5. When you think of Tal Bachman, you think of She's So High. When you think of Norman Greenbaum, you think of Spirit in the Sky. And so on. But thats it. No other songs by such artists/bands come to mind.

Stevie Nicks, Barenaked Ladies, Jimmy Eat World, STEPPENWOLF, etc are all far from one-hit wonders.

When you think of Stevie Nicks, you think of "Edge of Seventeen". When you think of Barenaked Ladies, you think of "One Week". When you think of Jimmy Eat World, you think of "The Middle", and when you think of Steppenwolf, you think of "Born to be Wild".

One-hit wonder or not is a never-ending discussion as there are diffent views on how you define it. I have my idea of what defines a one-hit wonder, take it or leave it.

Funny, I'd think of Sweetness before thinking of The Middle (talking about JEW)

I'd say we find some sort of actual definition to use, instead of going from "Billboard top 10" to "when you think of 'artist'", both of which you've used.
If it's the first, we throw Radiohead in there. If it's the second, we'll have big arguments.

WHOA I CALL VANILLA ICE

I'm willing to hear people out or make some kind of voting-thing on which artists should be included on in this group. The problem is though, that some people may have a personal attatchment to some band or artist, and claim that it is not a one-hit wonder, although it is. I may, for example, be obsessed with Dead or Alive and deny their status as a one-hit wonder, although it is clear to everyone else that they definitely were one. Clearly some people in here are JEW fans, and while it should be clear from chart positions that they have actually only had one hit single, fans may disagree on calling them a one hit wonder. I am, for example, not a huge JEW fan, and I know only their one hit single, and that perfectly proves my point: if you are not a big fan of a certain band, you may only know the one song, that has actually been a hit. I would therefor classify JEW as a one hit wonder band. So the idea of agreeing on which bands should or should not be connected to this group seems like an impossible task as there will always be huge fans of the different bands who will disagree.

Too bad there is no "poll" option for the forum posts. Voting will be really annoying and confusing.


By the way I don't think I actually ever signed up for the group.

Also: I'm not a huge JEW fan; I only know three songs, all of which I downloaded because of radio airplay