Pop culture loves a good one-hit wonder story. A song rockets up the charts, gets stuck in everyone's head for a summer, and ...

There's something almost unfair about the phrase "one-hit wonder." It gets thrown at artists like a consolation prize, a way of saying you had a moment but couldn't sustain it. The label is less a ...

One-hit wonders were everywhere in 1975 and for most of the 70s, and many of those solitary hitmakers were rock bands. It’s a shame that the following four one-hit wonders of rock are considered such, ...

The '00s had a bevy of one-hit wonders across all genres. The artists dropped a hit that stuck with us, but why didn't they?

Ah, folk rock. The genre really took off in the 1970s, but it started out beautifully in the 1960s. And the following folk rock one-hit wonders from the 1960s are still so good that anyone who doesn’t ...

The 1990s were an exciting time for music, between grunge and the Seattle sound taking off and hip-hop working its way into the mainstream. Not every band in the 1990s had tons of hits. Some of them ...

On this day 50 years ago a legendary one-hit wonder reached No. 1 and kept an iconic rock group from a Grammy win.

The 1970s was a huge decade for music. From the emergence of a more layered rock scene to the birth of hip-hop to the development of disco, folk, and funk, the years transformed the industry in a way ...

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 ...