Sometimes, a single song can change a musician or band's entire career. In fact, that's often the case. The one-hit wonder is perhaps the most fascinating ...

A one-hit wonder is a singer or group that has only experienced success with one hit song. Often, people will only remember the name of the song and not even the singer or group behind it. We've ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Music has a way of sticking with you, especially those infectious tunes that pop up out of nowhere and make you hit repeat—over ...

The year 1971 was a musical powerhouse that gave us some of the most unforgettable songs in American history. It was a time when the cultural revolution of the ’60s was maturing into something deeper ...

One-hit wonder songs were all over the place in the 1970s, across genres like disco, rock, new wave, and pop. And a select few of those one-hit wonders are really difficult to cover properly. Some of ...

Even a one-hit wonder has a certain air of glamour and celebrity (a hit’s a hit even if there’s only one of them, after all), but Norman Greenbaum wasn’t exactly living on Easy Street after the ...

Country music has seen plenty of famous artists with decades-long careers. But not all musical artists are long-standing; some seem to step into the spotlight just long enough to release one ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every chart ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. This article contains references to sexual and child abuse. The 1970s were an amazing decade for music, with songs from that era standing the ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...