Stacker dug through the annals of rock music history and highlighted 20 one-hit wonders who only had one single that reached gold or platinum status.

Modern English’s “I Melt With You” remains a staple. Though the band is certainly a one-hit wonder, they earned quite an enduring career with this one hit. Rock radio stations still frequently play ...

The controversial hit shocked radio programmers and became one of rock’s strangest one-hit wonders.

We're all familiar with the one-hit wonder—that artist who storms onto the music scene with a smash hit, only to disappear as soon as they arrive. Some one-hit wonders continue making music for years, ...

Anyone who was alive at any point in the later 20th century knows the introduction to this song like the back of their hand. The youths of today, though, may have never heard the upbeat magic of ...

Forget the 'fluke' label: these legends defined entire genres, proving their legacy runs far deeper than a single, ubiquitous radio hit ...

Sometimes an artist creates one incredible song, heard around the world, before fading into obscurity.

One-hit wonders occupy a unique and emotional place in our collective memory, transporting us to a specific time and era of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some artists record such a massive hit that it overshadows every other song they've made. This can be both a blessing and a curse ...

View post: Janet Arvizo Jackson: Gavin Arvizo's Mom Was a 'Loose Cannon' at Trial Don McLean's "American Pie" tops Ranker's greatest one-hit wonders of the 1990s list. Fans describe "American Pie" as ...