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ITT: The second-most popular songs from bands with 1 massive hit:
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Date: April 11th, 2025 2:52 AM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena for example, edison lighthouse famously had a global hit in 1970 with 'love grows,' but they did have one more song which made the charts the following year - 1971's "It's Up to You, Petula":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpeIsj3vhFw
this was by far their second-biggest hit, since nothing else they did really charted anywhere. |
Date: April 11th, 2025 5:28 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena singer Freedy Johnston's biggest hit by far was 1994's 'Bad Reputation,' a moderate success on mainstream and alternative radio of the time. however, he did have one additional single which made the airwaves - his 2001 cover of Edison Lighthouse's 'Love Grows':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX7IM_79Yrc |
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Date: April 13th, 2025 2:00 AM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena england's Mr. Blobby scored a surprise #1 christmas hit in the UK in 1993 with this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNkgDJpcuwU
he tried to regain the magic a couple years later in 1995 with 'Christmas in Blobbyland':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OggFor5VXtM
however, it only got to #36, and was considered a bit of a disappointment. nonetheless, it remains his second-biggest hit, since nothing else from mr. blobby charted at all. |
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Date: April 13th, 2025 2:07 AM Author: Honey-headed locale (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708990&forum_id=2Elisa#48842070) |
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Date: April 20th, 2025 9:20 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena nicolette larson's sole mega-hit was a 1978 cover of neil young's 'lotta love.' she did have several other charting songs aside from that, the biggest of which was 'Let Me Go, Love' from the following year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4VHciIYJ0
as with many late-70's radio hits, it features backing vocals from michael mcdonald.
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Date: April 21st, 2025 6:57 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena los del rio scored one of the biggest hits of the 90's with a 1995 remix of their song 'macarena.' and we don't have to venture far to find their second-biggest single - a long-forgotten 1996 christmas remix of the very same song called 'Macarena Christmas':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMffYsGkzU4
but does that really count? what was their third-biggest release? that, in fact, was the original non-remixed version of macarena from 1993:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tajwkc22SE
can we go further? did they have a #4 hit unrelated to the fucking macarena? yes, kind of. it would be their 1999 track 'Baila, Baila'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPsKSCypegY
otherwise, their music simply did not export very well from spain itself.
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Date: April 21st, 2025 7:16 PM Author: Sinister Canary Nowag Digit Ratio "Gold" is the followup to Spandau Ballet's #4 hit "True". It hit #29 before Spandau Ballet slipped into irrelevance in the US. It isn't a good song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntG50eXbBtc |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 7:33 PM Author: Poppy kitchen hunting ground hey wtf man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708990&forum_id=2Elisa#48875326) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 7:38 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle hospital Wow yeah this sucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708990&forum_id=2Elisa#48875341) |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 7:20 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena Bob Carlisle had a christian-country crossover hit in 1997 with "butterfly kisses." however, a few years earlier, he had also managed to slightly push into the mainstream charts with 1993 single called "Giving You the Rest of My Life" - this is his lesser-known second-biggest hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ63TQuKY5s
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 7:41 PM Author: Poppy kitchen hunting ground A-ha - The Sun Always Shines on TV
Reached #20 in the US in 1985 as the follow-up to US #1 Take On Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ir9HC9vYg |
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Date: April 23rd, 2025 7:44 PM Author: Bright big boistinker institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708990&forum_id=2Elisa#48875354) |
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Date: April 24th, 2025 6:11 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena chumbawamba had a lengthy recording career going back to the early-80's in england before 'tubthumping' became a hit in 1997. though they had other charting songs in the UK, only 1998's 'amnesia' went anywhere internationally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e7vfZIC_U0
harvey danger actually did have a couple of minor follow-up hits to 1997's 'flagpole sitta,' the biggest of which was 2000's 'Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTnLVX689fE
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Date: April 27th, 2025 4:51 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena the band Deep Blue Something had a major hit in 1995 with "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which went all the way to #1 in the UK and some other nations. but did they have a second-biggest hit?
kind of. in the US, their only other charting track was 1996's 'Halo':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWA-FveZcaQ
but in the UK, it was 1996's 'Josey':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk98Ezqg8_w |
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Date: April 27th, 2025 6:57 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle hospital (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708990&forum_id=2Elisa#48885900) |
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Date: April 27th, 2025 7:09 PM Author: motley macaca Men Without Hats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zUUtf7gOe8
Pop Goes the World |
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Date: April 28th, 2025 7:02 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena Marta "Martika" Marrero was a child actress who went for a more serious and mature sound on her 1988 debut album, which included the international hit 'Toy Soldiers.' but what about afterwards?
she never managed to repeat the success of Toy Soldiers, but her 1991 collaboration with Prince "Love, Thy Will Be Done" did briefly make the top 10 on the billboard singles chart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10V_Z0_udjg
and by 'make,' i mean #10. that's as high as it went. as it happens, her husband Nikki Lee is one of the few 'true' one-hit wonders who had precisely one charting single and nothing else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU6B8vWKrPE
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Date: May 1st, 2025 7:26 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena the death of jill sobule raises an interesting question - aside from her 1995 hit "I Kissed a Girl," did anything else chart? yes - a few years earlier, in 1990, her single 'Too Cool to Fall in Love' reached the top 20 of the old billboard adult contemporary chart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnwOhtjR_xo |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 8:04 PM Author: lilac hominid laser beams Supermodel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708990&forum_id=2Elisa#48928241) |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 2:59 AM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena the primitive radio gods actually go back into the 1980's, when they were a local band in southern california called 'i-rails.' they released a few singles, eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JndwtCZI-8g
but did not chart. it wasn't until 'standing outside a broken phone booth...' in 1996 that the renamed band got any attention at all. unfortunately, their follow-up single was called 'Motherfucker,' which limited its commercial appeal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri_giYr7g-0
however, they did have a minor comeback with the soft-rock single 'Fading Out' in 2000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEfH7TzDwEg
this was their second-biggest hit. they continued releasing singles and albums after that, some of which were well-reviewed, for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZYC7NtRSt8
but did not get much airplay. |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 8:08 PM Author: lilac hominid laser beams It was really only one guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708990&forum_id=2Elisa#48928249) |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 3:02 AM Author: Naked Dopamine Trust Fund The winner is Falco: Der Kommissar
https://youtu.be/8-bgiiTxhzM?si=RMJS9GJzYP-pV6yp |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 7:54 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena folk implosion started as a side-project from the band sebadoh, mostly following sebadoh's slacker-rock sound, but somewhat more dissonant and aggressive. but their moodier, synth-driven track 'Natural One' became a hit after appearing on the soundtrack for the movie 'Kids' in 1995.
though folk implosion continued releasing albums and singles, only one appeared to chart anywhere - 1999's 'Free to Go,' which was a minor hit in the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=136Cx-tXc0k |
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Date: May 13th, 2025 8:05 PM Author: Mauve bat-shit-crazy church building Jesus Jones had another song called “Real Real Real” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708990&forum_id=2Elisa#48928245) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 12:35 AM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena the archies were a pop band designed to support the archie comics brand. they had a massive hit with 'sugar, sugar' in the summer of 1969, which became one of the biggest songs of that entire decade.
what is less-remembered is that the follow-up single 'jingle jangle' also made it to #10 in the fall of '69:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5zt5Tr56zc |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 12:44 AM Author: Pea-brained Unhinged Station Leona Lewis - "Better in Time" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708990&forum_id=2Elisa#48955527) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 6:49 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena the toadies scored a significant rock radio hit in 1995 with "Possum Kingdom" (aka STP - Behind the Boat House.mp3 on early Napster). their second-biggest hit was the follow-up single 'Away' from the same album, which was around ¼th as successful commercially:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwTUAgU4d8w |
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Date: June 2nd, 2025 7:18 AM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena dishwalla is a southern californian band with one major hit (1996's 'counting blue cars'). they did put several other songs on various charts (none of them very high), so picking a #2 hit is a matter of interpretation. however, 1998's 'Once in a While' did make it to #17 on the mainstream rock chart, so, let's pick that one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1fTviwef8U
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Date: June 24th, 2025 6:56 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena meme musician 'Gerardo' had a notable meme hit in 1991 with 'Rico Suave.' what is less-remembered is that he had a top-20 follow-up hit called "We Want the Funk" in the fall of that same year, a rather terrible remake of the old parliament song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZiUfG0IvAk
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Date: July 1st, 2025 9:38 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena the new radicals were riding high in 1998/1999 on the success of their single "you get what you give." they didn't have a whole lot of singles success beyond that, though. the 1999 follow-up single "Someday We'll Know" is considered the band's second-biggest hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmA8qQKhMY |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 6:57 PM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena Antonia "Toni Basil" Basilotta was a dancer and actress in the 1960's before transitioning to pop music in the early-80's, including the #1 hit 'Mickey.' though often considered a 'one-hit wonder,' this is not technically correct, since the 1983 single "Over My Head" from her second album went to #4 on the dance charts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21VDL0aBz14
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Date: July 21st, 2025 2:39 AM Author: stirring bipolar tanning salon striped hyena singer shanice wilson had an iconic early-90's R&B hit with 1991's "I Love Your Smile." but she also had a fairly successful #4 follow-up hit called "Saving Forever For You" the next year, boosted by its appearance on the Beverley Hills 90210 soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0cCvknkOgM |