There is something almost mythological about the one-hit wonder. One song. One moment. A million radios playing it at once. Then, silence. It's one of music's most fascinating and slightly ...

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 they arrive. Some one-hit wonders continue making music for years, ...

Of the last seven decades or so, the 1980s often get the worst rap for having the most ultra-cheesy, sometimes cringey, “guilty pleasure” songs, and the one-hit wonders from this decade are no ...

For the artists behind catchy one-hit wonders of the 1960s, brimming with danceable beats, merry melodies, and memorable lyrics, perhaps it was simply a matter of being in the right place at the right ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA The 1980s gave us some of the world's favorite songs of all time, including many from bands and solo artists ...

Not every artist who scores a massive hit can follow it up — and in the 1990’s, that gap between one transcendent song and everything else that followed was sometimes enormous. This list pulls 14 of ...