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One-Hit Wonder · The Dossier The Decades 1075 files

A field guide to music's greatest single moments

One-Hit Wonders

Lightning caught in a bottle — the songs that conquered the world exactly once. Pick an era and dive in.

Songs
1075+
Decades
6
Years
60+
The Swinging Sixties — one-hit wonders 1960s The Swinging Sixties 13 hits The Groovy Seventies — one-hit wonders 1970s The Groovy Seventies 20 hits The Electric Eighties — one-hit wonders 1980s The Electric Eighties 908 hits The Nifty Nineties — one-hit wonders 1990s The Nifty Nineties 118 hits The New Millennium — one-hit wonders 2000s The New Millennium 12 hits The Digital Decade — one-hit wonders 2010s The Digital Decade 4 hits

A one-hit wonder catches the whole world's ear with a single song — then never quite does it again. We tell the story behind each one.

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