1998 One Hit Wonders page 1998 One Hit Wonder tune timeline
with weekly chart links,
song links and samples at Tunecaster music encyclopedia
The Ultimate One Hit Wonders Site.
Here are all the one hit wonders, year by year, in tune timeline order. Tunecaster samples, full song or video links, downloads, extras, below each song in green.
Stream amazon samples, click play to the right. Full weekly CHART data, click underlined blue chart peaks, 1975 to date.ROCK chart data, click reddish
underlined peaks, 1980 to date.
41 years of one hit wonders, each on its own page; and late 50s, links to far right. SEARCH and find a song, or browse the alphabet for one hit wonders, at bottom of page.
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Sugar Cane borrowed
from Bring The Noise by Public Enemy. This song was the only
rock
top 20 hit for Space Monkeys. The group received
slight radio airplay with other songs, like Blowing Down The
Stylus.
Are You Jimmy
Ray was the only top
20 song for Jimmy Ray. This song was a fast riser
on the charts, but Jimmy Ray did not have another noticeable
song out.
A few months
before I Don't Ever Want To See You Again became the only top
20 hit for Uncle Sam, he received minor soul radio airplay with
Can You Feel It.
The Mummers'
Dance was the only top
20 hit and was also a near rock top 20 miss for Loreena
McKennitt. She did not received noticeable airplay with any
other song.
Bitter Sweet
Symphony borrowed from The Last Time by Andrew Oldham Orchestra,
which was originally by The
Rolling Stones. Due to a lawsuit against the group,
the copyright holder received 75% of the royalties. This song
was the greatest pop and rock hit by The
Verve and one of two rock top 20 hits. The Verve
song was from the album Urban Hymns.
The instrumental
song Southampton was the only top
20 song by James Horner. He had no other songs that
received mentionable airplay. The song was from the movie The
Titanic.
Surfer Girl
was the most popoular song for alternative group Homegrown.
The group received very slight radio airplay with other songs
too, like When It All Comes Down. Surfer Girl was from the album
Act Your Age.
From Your Mouth
was the only rock
top 20 hit for God Lives Underwater. The group received
slight radio airplay with other songs too, like Don't Know How
To Be. From Your Mouth was from the album Life In The So-Called
Space Age.
Although Sex
And Candy was the only pop top 20 hit for Marcy
Playground, the group had two more rock top 20 hits.
This song was from the album Marcy Playground.
Jump Right In
was the only rock
top 20 song for The Urge. However, 311
singer, Nick Hexum, sang Jump Right In, and The Urge soon followed
with Too Much Stereo which received some video exposure. Jump
Right In was from the album Master Of Styles.
Although Closing
Time was the only pop top 20 hit for Semisonic,
the group had a few other popular rock songs. This song was
from the album Feeling Strangely Fine.
What I Didn't
Know was the only rock
top 20 hit for Athenaeum, and the only song by the
group that received noticeable airplay. The song was from the
album Radiance.
Hooch was the
only pop
or rock
top 20 hit for Everything. The group received no noticeable
radio airplay with any other song. The song was from the album
Super Natural.
The number
one song Lullaby was the only pop
or rock
top 20 hit for Shawn
Mullins. Eight years later, he received some radio
airplay with Beautiful Wreck.
