Top Ten One Hit Wonders

The Top Ten
1 Take On Me - A-ha

A masterpiece. Barbie girl is number 2?!?!?! This makes me lose faith in humanity.

They are not a one hit wonder band, you forgot about Crying In The Rain.

Great music video. Great beat. Great everything

2 The Final Countdown - Europe

Not a one-hit wonder. "Carrie" was a big hit, charting even higher in the US than "The Final Countdown".

This band is awesome, they have many good songs, like Superstitious or Cherokee

Way better than vanilla ice

3 Too Shy - Kajagoogoo

Catchiest song ever nothing
Else to say but that

4 Maniac - Michael Sembello

His only worldwide hit & a staple in synthwave. It was 1 of the songs that inspired The Weeknd to make Blinding Lights.

5 Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

Actually, Survivor has lots of hits, especially considering how puny their catalog is. Burning Heart, The Search Is Over, I Can't Hold Back, High On You, and Poor Man's Son are good examples.

Survivor isn't a one hit wonder band. I've heard other songs by them on the radio.

Ether this or Gangnam Style. This is one of the best songs in the 80's.

Really empowering song. Should be higher up on the list.

6 Bad Day - Daniel Powter

I do I like to tease my sister with it comes on that one commercial about all the nfl teams with their bad seasons.
But he is a one hit wonder

I listen to this all the time! One of the best one hit wonders of all time!

This is literally one of my favorite songs of all time.

Any 90s or 2000s kid recognizes this song

7 The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats

Another hit as well

8 Turning Japanese - The Vapors

They have a few other nice songs. None of them are really popular, but I read that they tried really hard to not be one hit wonders, so I decided to listen to some of their other tracks.
I will admit though, they were a one hit wonder, and boy; was it a hit!
I can never get enough of this song, the oriental riff is captivating and the lyrics are just something else...
If you haven't listened to it yet, highly recommended!

The song is way better than bohemian rhapsody.

This song is weeaboo

9 Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

This is definitely on the best one hit wonders list of all time. Gotta love the beat to this song, so catchy

Come on Eileen is the best song ever! It's so upbeat a happy and I love it

I can't understand 90% of the lyrics, and I love it anyway. by the way Geno was only a hit in the UK.

This song is just too addicting. Love it!

10 Tainted Love - Soft Cell

Good but played too much

The Newcomers

? Graduation - Vitamin C
? Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
The Contenders
11 Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

This song is horrible and it copied a riff from one of Queen's best songs. One hit wonder for sure

Even vanilla ice hated it. Also, ripped off one of the best songs ever

This song is so comically stupid lol

12 Tubthumping - Chumbawamba

Yes, this song is VERY repetitive, and all over the place, but it's a good motivational song, and a fantastic song to work out to... I just can't believe it's so low on the list, and I am astounded that Kung Fu Fighting is even lower. I expected that song to at least be in the top ten!

This is what happens when a bunch of anarchistic punk rockers decide to make a pop song so they can later spook their new fans. No joke.

13 I Ran (So Far Away) - a Flock of Seagulls

A dreamy upbeat classic with such a clever story. No wonder it was a hit.

14 What Is Love? - Haddaway

I think this is an amazing song. It's mainstream 90s music perfected. If it wasn't for this I might have voted for The Safety Dance even though Men Without Hats also had Pop Goes the World

Do you know any other song from them? Nope: one hit wonder. Best stuff only if you love night at the roxbury though

I can't listen to this without trying to do the head bob from night at the Roxbury. Pure disco.

I have listend to this song around 14,983,637 times...I am still not bored with it.

15 My Sharona - The Knack

They had 2 other Top 40 hits:
#11...Good Girls Don't
#38...Baby Talks Dirty

Their not a one hit wonder, had a couple top 40 songs

Awesome Song! Why is this not on the list already?

16 Born to Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
17 Der Kommissar - After The Fire
18 Rock Me Amadeus - Falco

If this is a one hit wonder, Michael Jackson is a one hit wonder as well. He's the most legendary Austrian musician of all time and Austrians will be able to sing every word of his greatest hits compilations by heart.

This is the best song of all time

19 Macarena - Los Del Rio
20 I Love To Love - Tina Charles
21 In a Big Country - Big Country

Brilliant song

22 Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) - Lou Bega

Why is Nena with 2 songs here (kinda like that)?

This song is sure to entertain you a lot!

23 Barbie Girl - Aqua

This is, by far, one of the most misunderstood songs in history. The dumb general public didn't get that Aqua was making a social comment. Instead, they took this song way too literally. It deserves a better reputation than the one it has.

Aqua is not a one hit wonder but I vote for "Barbie Girl" because I like it. "Dr. Jones" was also a very famous song by Aqua, "My Oh My" and so on.

I get that the song is about dumb bimbos but Aqua are not the best singers in the world, they are a joke group. that's why everything thinks it's a stupid song.

Not a one hit wonder. They topped the UK billboards 3 times and have sold 33 million albums. They are the mot succesfull Danish band of all time!

24 Cars - Gary Numan

Wow as if this makes the list, don't get me wrong it's a great song but "are friends electric" sorry was that not a hit "she's got claws" what about that, I'm 17 so wasn't around at the time of release but come on people!

I have this song on my IPOD and waste 3/4 of the battery listening to this song! I do like Tainted Love too... in algebra I can synchronize my heartbeat to this song. XD

25 A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
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