Best Music Artists Who Only Released One Studio Album

The Top Ten
1 Mike Botts
2 Griffin, Yancey & Guilbeau
3 Heartland
4 Palomino Road
5 Sex Pistols The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975. Although they initially lasted just two and a half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, they are considered one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music, having initiated a punk movement in the United Kingdom, and inspired many later punk and alternative rock musicians.

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)

Completely changed pop culture

6 Blind Faith

Only ever released a self titled album in 1969. Members of this supergroup were: Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech.

7 Jeff Buckley Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997) raised as Scott "Scottie" Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Jeff Buckley was born in Anaheim, California, from musical lineage. His mother, Mary Guibert, was a classically trained musician, and his father, Tim Buckley, was a well-known folk singer. Buckley, however, only met his father one time; the two spent a week together when Jeff was 8. The elder Buckley died of a heroin overdose at age 28, less than a year after the pair's meeting. ...read more.

Screw all the others, Jeff is the man

8 Lauryn Hill Lauryn Noelle Hill is an American singer, rapper and songwriter. She is known for being a member of Fugees and for her solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which won many awards and broke several sales records.

The Miseducation of Lauren Hill (1998)

Not surprised she is here.

9 Derek & The Dominos

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)

10 The Shaggs

Although it was recorded, this album was not actually "released". Only 1,000 copies were pressed, and about 900 were stolen from the warehouse. The remaining copies were given out as samples, and never sold. Strictly a novelty record that was revived by Dr. Demento decades later, mostly as a joke.

Philosophy of the World (1969)

The Contenders
11 Cymarron
12 Them Crooked Vultures
13 Operation Ivy Operation Ivy, sometimes called "Op Ivy," was an American Ska punk band, from Berkeley, California formed in May 1987. The band was stylistically important as one of the first bands to mix the elements of hardcore punk and ska into a new amalgam called ska punk and was critical to the emergence of Lookout Records and the so-called "East Bay Sound."
14 The Unicorns

Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (2003)

15 Damageplan Damageplan was an American heavy metal band from Dallas, Texas, formed in 2003. Following the demise of their previous group Pantera, brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul Abbott wanted to start a new band. The band ended tragically when Dimebag Darrell was shot on stage in a show in Ohio.

They only realesed one because right after it was made Dimebag Darrell was shot on stage which caused a Tragic end for Damageplan

16 Big L Lamont Coleman (May 30, 1974 – February 15, 1999), best known by his stage name Big L, was an American hip hop recording artist, born and raised in Harlem, New York City, New York. Coleman embarked on his career in rapping, with the hip hop trio, Three the Hard Way. His first notable appearance came on Lord Finesse's "Yes You May (Remix)". Coleman released his debut album, Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous, in 1995 and significantly contributed to the underground hip hop scene. In 1998, he founded Flamboyant Entertainment, his own indie label, through which he released one of his most popular singles, "Ebonics" (1998). ...read more.

He has two actually.

17 The Postal Service
18 The Honeyrods
19 The La's

Best known for the song "There She Goes". Their singer and songwriter, Lee Mavers, was a big-time perfectionist, and they scrapped several sessions over two years because they couldn't find "the right sound". The producer, Steve Lillywhite, put the final album together from the sessions he recorded with them. Lee hated it, and he broke up the band, becoming a reclusive figure. The La's have reunited on a few occasions, but they have never released another studio album.

20 Disembowelment Disembowelment, often styled as diSEMBOWELMENT, was an Australian death/doom band that formed in November 1989 featuring Renato Gallina on guitar and vocals, and Paul Mazziotta on drums.
21 Thergothon
22 Mother Love Bone Mother Love Bone was an American alternative rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987. The band was active from 1987 to 1990. Frontman Andrew Wood's personality and lyrics helped to catapult the group to the top of the burgeoning late 1980s/early 1990s Seattle music scene.
23 Isles & Glaciers
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