Favorite 1 hit wonder band/song of the 80’s?

Relax ~ Frankie Goes to Hollywood. I managed a store in newly opened East Towne Mall in Knoxville. A girl that worked at the record store a few doors down from me would play this song in her RX-7 with the hatch raised after we got off work.

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West end girls - the Pet Shop Boys

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They were not a one hit wonder.

Rick Springfield arguably was, so Jesse’s Girl.

I know he had some other minor hits.

Probably should’ve researched that. I know those songs, but didn’t realize they hit the top 10.

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Other than Cult of Personality from their debut record, Glamour Boys and Open Letter (To A Landlord) both charted in the Billboard 100.

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That album was good.

The Cutting Crew

Devo, while a classic and influential group, only had song break the Top 40. Working In A Coal Mine got to 43. Theme from Doctor Detroit got to 59. Nothing else ever entered the Top 100.

So yes, even though the group has had more influence than many groups with multiple hits, they only had one quantifiable hit.

Ha never heard of it

Your Love - The Outfield.

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UK charts don’t count? Thats why I said y’all have a lot to learn. Google that like you did your previous comment. There are more to “hits” than Kassie Kassum’s Top 40/ US Billboards.

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Generally speaking, a “One Hot Wonder” is defined as having only one Top 40 on the Billboard HOT 100. Some will expand this to a singular song which defines an artist even if other songs have reached the Top 40 (a good example is Tommy Tutone. He actually has had 2 Top 40 hits but one is so well known as it eclipses the other. Usually when people primarily in the US are talking about One Hit artists, they are referring to US charts. If one wishes to expand to the U.K., why not expand to Australia or Canada? (In the case of Devo, they never had a Top 40 in the U.K. so I’m not sure your point there. They did have a number 8 in New Zealand… should we count that too?).

And I said “quantifiable”. If one wants to try to quantify this, there needs to be some standard. If not, then anyone can say just about any group had more “hits” than they actually did simply because the songs are hits to them.

And if you use Google as you claim, you could spell Casey Kasem’s name correctly…