'00s One-Hit Wonders
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- The Basics
Decades come and go . . . and so do one hit wonders. All of these say-hello, wave-goodbye artists briefly lit up the charts like roman candles, then faded into the landscape of nostalgia, victims of the world's short attention span and pop's disposability. Here, though, you can love them forever — let's hear it for the Baha Men ("Who Let the Dogs Out"), Las Ketchup (taking a leaf out of Baccara's book with "Aserejé"), former Baywatch lifeguard David Hasselhoff ("Jump in My Car" — if you'd like more Hasselhoff, you could consider moving to Germany, where's he's been a rock star since the late '80s) and Psycho Teddy, creator of the ultimate pure techno ringtone. A slow-moving earth-mover delivers fast fame for Nizlopi, in Next Steps.
$48.06 The Basics
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 Psycho Teddy Psycho Teddy 3:05 $2.19 View In iTunes 2 Who Let the Dogs Out Baha Men 3:18 $2.19 View In iTunes 3 The Ketchup Song (Aserejé) [Spanglish Version] Las Ketchup 3:32 $1.69 View In iTunes 4 The Middle Jimmy Eat World 2:46 $2.19 View In iTunes 5 I Don't Do Surprises Axle Whitehead 3:14 $1.69 View In iTunes 6 Because I Got High Afroman 5:10 $2.19 View In iTunes 7 All Summer Long Kid Rock 4:56 $2.19 View In iTunes 8 Turn Me On Kevin Lyttle 3:13 $1.69 View In iTunes 9 Lips Of An Angel Hinder 4:21 $2.19 View In iTunes 10 Breathe (Radio Mix) Blu Cantrell 3:20 $2.19 View In iTunes 11 Smooth Criminal Alien Ant Farm 3:29 $2.19 View In iTunes 12 Party Hard Andrew W.K. 3:04 $2.19 View In iTunes 13 Amigo (7'' Edit) Black Slate 4:07 $2.19 View In iTunes 14 Hero (Motion Picture Version) Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott 3:20 $1.69 View In iTunes 15 Jump In My Car David Hasselhoff 2:59 $1.69 View In iTunes 16 The Sound of Bamboo (Three Drum Remix) Flickman 7:29 $1.69 View In iTunes 17 Night of My Life Damien Leith 3:34 $2.19 View In iTunes 18 Girl All the Bad Guys Want Bowling for Soup 3:17 $2.19 View In iTunes 19 ExplicitDown 4 U Charli Baltimore 5:18 $1.69 View In iTunes 20 Kernkraft 400 (Original Radio Edit) Zombie Nation 3:27 $1.69 View In iTunes 21 If You Don't Mean It Dean Geyer 3:13 $2.19 View In iTunes 22 Sitting Down Here (Original Version) Lene Marlin 3:58 $2.19 View In iTunes 23 You Know My Name (From "Casino Royale") Chris Cornell 4:02 $2.19 View In iTunes 24 Sun Goes Down David Jordan 3:19 $1.69 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Next Steps
When the big book of pop is finally written, these artists will be found not in the chapter headings, but in the footnotes. Khia got hot with "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" before the limelight shone elsewhere although, to be fair, the track helped secure gold status for her debut album Thug Misses in 2002. Nizlopi's charming tale of father-son bonding ("The J.C.B. Song" — one of the greatest one-hitters ever) remains a highlight from 2005, and Natalie Gauci delivered debut single "Here I Am" after winning Australian Idol in 2007 (there will surely be more hits to follow), while Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" became the universal uplifting theme for Idol disappointment. Daddy Yankee waves his fast-burning reggaeton sparkler in Deep Cuts.
$42.18 Next Steps
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 What If Kate Winslet 4:03 $2.19 View In iTunes 2 Forever (Radio Edit) Dee Dee 3:58 $1.69 View In iTunes 3 JCB Song Nizlopi 3:49 $1.69 View In iTunes 4 I Believe My Heart Duncan James & Keedie 4:00 $2.19 View In iTunes 5 Country Roads Hermes House Band 3:13 $1.69 View In iTunes 6 Pictures of You The Last Goodnight 3:09 $1.69 View In iTunes 7 Rapture (feat. Nadia Ali) Iio 4:13 $2.19 View In iTunes 8 Owner of a Lonely Heart (Radio Edit) Max Graham vs Yes 2:42 $1.69 View In iTunes 9 ExplicitMy Neck, My Back Khia 3:44 $2.19 View In iTunes 10 Bad Babysitter Princess Superstar & High & Mighty 3:35 $1.69 View In iTunes 11 ExplicitGot Some Teeth Obie Trice 3:47 $2.19 View In iTunes 12 ExplicitNaughty Girl (Radio Edit) Mr. G 3:21 $1.69 View In iTunes 13 Be Cool (Radio Edit) Paffendorf 3:32 $1.69 View In iTunes 14 Ordinary World Aurora 4:47 $1.69 View In iTunes 15 Oops (Oh My) Tweet & Missy Elliott 3:57 $1.69 View In iTunes 16 No More Ruff Endz 4:02 $2.19 View In iTunes 17 Here I Am Natalie Gauci 3:46 $2.19 View In iTunes 18 Bad Day Daniel Powter 3:54 $2.19 View In iTunes 19 Blow Your Mind (Clive King Mix) Lock 'n Load 6:57 $1.69 View In iTunes 20 Shackles (Praise You) Mary Mary 3:16 $2.19 View In iTunes 21 Beautiful Girls Sean Kingston 3:45 $2.19 View In iTunes 22 Just the Way You Are Milky 3:30 $1.69 View In iTunes Total: 22 Songs - Deep Cuts
Look at it this way — one hit is better than no hits, especially if it's a good 'un. Daddy Yankee went a long way on "Gasolina" in the mid '00s — since then the Puerto Rican reggaeton star has had a crack at the movie business, with the semi-autobiographical Talento de Barrio — while Crazy Town produced one of the most addictive rap-rock tracks in chart history with 2001's "Butterfly." The ever-clever Lemon Jelly's "Nice Weather for Ducks" helped define the mellow side of 2002 and prompted further exploration of their excellent album, Lost Horizons, and progressive house project Motorcycle left a sweet tire track on our memory with "As the Rush Comes" (2003).
$39.99 Deep Cuts
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 Starlight (Radio Edit) The Supermen Lovers 3:52 $2.19 View In iTunes 2 Butterfly Crazy Town 3:36 $2.19 View In iTunes 3 Dove - I'll Be Loving You (T&F Vs Moltosugo Radio Mix) Moony 4:02 $1.69 View In iTunes 4 Take Me to the Clouds Above (Radio Edit) LMC vs. U2 2:51 $2.19 View In iTunes 5 Gasolina Daddy Yankee 3:13 $2.19 View In iTunes 6 Listen to Your Heart DHT 3:11 $1.69 View In iTunes 7 ExplicitF**k It (I Don't Want You Back) [Dirty] Eamon 3:43 $2.19 View In iTunes 8 That's Not My Name The Ting Tings 5:10 $2.19 View In iTunes 9 As the Rush Comes (Radio Edit) Motorcycle 3:32 $2.19 View In iTunes 10 From Paris to Berlin Infernal 3:29 $1.69 View In iTunes 11 ExplicitResuRection PPK 8:01 $1.69 View In iTunes 12 Drifting Away Lange 2:24 $1.69 View In iTunes 13 Make Luv Room 5 3:32 $1.69 View In iTunes 14 Camels Santos 7:30 $1.69 View In iTunes 15 Loneliness (Radio Cut) Tomcraft 3:48 $1.69 View In iTunes 16 Crank That (Soulja Boy) Soulja Boy Tell 'Em 3:42 $2.19 View In iTunes 17 Addicted to Bass Puretone 3:56 $1.69 View In iTunes 18 ExplicitAddictive Truth Hurts 3:46 $1.69 View In iTunes 19 Nice Weather for Ducks Lemon Jelly 6:08 $1.69 View In iTunes 20 Shake It (Terrace Mix) Lee Cabrera & Thomas Gold 2:29 $1.69 View In iTunes 21 Roc Ya Body (Mic Check 1,2) (The M.V.P. Radio Edit) M.V.P. 3:33 $2.19 View In iTunes Total: 21 Songs - Complete Set
Although there's no perfect single formula for a one-hit wonder, a quick scan of these '00s flashes in the pan of pop reveals a couple of interesting approaches — for example, you can try extracting an iron-lunged rock balladeer from his familiar group surroundings and sticking him on a tent-pole movie soundtrack — check out Nickleback's Chad Kroeger on "Hero" from Spider-Man, and Audioslave's Chris Cornell on "You Know My Name" from Casino Royale; or you can take a familiar tune and give it an fresh spin (Alien Ant Farm's Michael Jackson reworking, "Smooth Criminal"; Hermes House Band's "Country Roads"). Whichever route these artists took, they're all now immortalised on this list of here today, gone tomorrow, available for download forever Essentials.
$130.23 Complete Set
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 Psycho Teddy Psycho Teddy 3:05 $2.19 View In iTunes 2 Who Let the Dogs Out Baha Men 3:18 $2.19 View In iTunes 3 The Ketchup Song (Aserejé) [Spanglish Version] Las Ketchup 3:32 $1.69 View In iTunes 4 The Middle Jimmy Eat World 2:46 $2.19 View In iTunes 5 I Don't Do Surprises Axle Whitehead 3:14 $1.69 View In iTunes 6 Because I Got High Afroman 5:10 $2.19 View In iTunes 7 All Summer Long Kid Rock 4:56 $2.19 View In iTunes 8 Turn Me On Kevin Lyttle 3:13 $1.69 View In iTunes 9 Lips Of An Angel Hinder 4:21 $2.19 View In iTunes 10 Breathe (Radio Mix) Blu Cantrell 3:20 $2.19 View In iTunes 11 Smooth Criminal Alien Ant Farm 3:29 $2.19 View In iTunes 12 Party Hard Andrew W.K. 3:04 $2.19 View In iTunes 13 Amigo (7'' Edit) Black Slate 4:07 $2.19 View In iTunes 14 Hero (Motion Picture Version) Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott 3:20 $1.69 View In iTunes 15 Jump In My Car David Hasselhoff 2:59 $1.69 View In iTunes 16 The Sound of Bamboo (Three Drum Remix) Flickman 7:29 $1.69 View In iTunes 17 Night of My Life Damien Leith 3:34 $2.19 View In iTunes 18 Girl All the Bad Guys Want Bowling for Soup 3:17 $2.19 View In iTunes 19 ExplicitDown 4 U Charli Baltimore 5:18 $1.69 View In iTunes 20 Kernkraft 400 (Original Radio Edit) Zombie Nation 3:27 $1.69 View In iTunes 21 If You Don't Mean It Dean Geyer 3:13 $2.19 View In iTunes 22 Sitting Down Here (Original Version) Lene Marlin 3:58 $2.19 View In iTunes 23 You Know My Name (From "Casino Royale") Chris Cornell 4:02 $2.19 View In iTunes 24 Sun Goes Down David Jordan 3:19 $1.69 View In iTunes 25 What If Kate Winslet 4:03 $2.19 View In iTunes 26 Forever (Radio Edit) Dee Dee 3:58 $1.69 View In iTunes 27 JCB Song Nizlopi 3:49 $1.69 View In iTunes 28 I Believe My Heart Duncan James & Keedie 4:00 $2.19 View In iTunes 29 Country Roads Hermes House Band 3:13 $1.69 View In iTunes 30 Pictures of You The Last Goodnight 3:09 $1.69 View In iTunes 31 Rapture (feat. Nadia Ali) Iio 4:13 $2.19 View In iTunes 32 Owner of a Lonely Heart (Radio Edit) Max Graham vs Yes 2:42 $1.69 View In iTunes 33 ExplicitMy Neck, My Back Khia 3:44 $2.19 View In iTunes 34 Bad Babysitter Princess Superstar & High & Mighty 3:35 $1.69 View In iTunes 35 ExplicitGot Some Teeth Obie Trice 3:47 $2.19 View In iTunes 36 ExplicitNaughty Girl (Radio Edit) Mr. G 3:21 $1.69 View In iTunes 37 Be Cool (Radio Edit) Paffendorf 3:32 $1.69 View In iTunes 38 Ordinary World Aurora 4:47 $1.69 View In iTunes 39 Oops (Oh My) Tweet & Missy Elliott 3:57 $1.69 View In iTunes 40 No More Ruff Endz 4:02 $2.19 View In iTunes 41 Here I Am Natalie Gauci 3:46 $2.19 View In iTunes 42 Bad Day Daniel Powter 3:54 $2.19 View In iTunes 43 Blow Your Mind (Clive King Mix) Lock 'n Load 6:57 $1.69 View In iTunes 44 Shackles (Praise You) Mary Mary 3:16 $2.19 View In iTunes 45 Beautiful Girls Sean Kingston 3:45 $2.19 View In iTunes 46 Just the Way You Are Milky 3:30 $1.69 View In iTunes 47 Starlight (Radio Edit) The Supermen Lovers 3:52 $2.19 View In iTunes 48 Butterfly Crazy Town 3:36 $2.19 View In iTunes 49 Dove - I'll Be Loving You (T&F Vs Moltosugo Radio Mix) Moony 4:02 $1.69 View In iTunes 50 Take Me to the Clouds Above (Radio Edit) LMC vs. U2 2:51 $2.19 View In iTunes 51 Gasolina Daddy Yankee 3:13 $2.19 View In iTunes 52 Listen to Your Heart DHT 3:11 $1.69 View In iTunes 53 ExplicitF**k It (I Don't Want You Back) [Dirty] Eamon 3:43 $2.19 View In iTunes 54 That's Not My Name The Ting Tings 5:10 $2.19 View In iTunes 55 As the Rush Comes (Radio Edit) Motorcycle 3:32 $2.19 View In iTunes 56 From Paris to Berlin Infernal 3:29 $1.69 View In iTunes 57 ExplicitResuRection PPK 8:01 $1.69 View In iTunes 58 Drifting Away Lange 2:24 $1.69 View In iTunes 59 Make Luv Room 5 3:32 $1.69 View In iTunes 60 Camels Santos 7:30 $1.69 View In iTunes 61 Loneliness (Radio Cut) Tomcraft 3:48 $1.69 View In iTunes 62 Crank That (Soulja Boy) Soulja Boy Tell 'Em 3:42 $2.19 View In iTunes 63 Addicted to Bass Puretone 3:56 $1.69 View In iTunes 64 ExplicitAddictive Truth Hurts 3:46 $1.69 View In iTunes 65 Nice Weather for Ducks Lemon Jelly 6:08 $1.69 View In iTunes 66 Shake It (Terrace Mix) Lee Cabrera & Thomas Gold 2:29 $1.69 View In iTunes 67 Roc Ya Body (Mic Check 1,2) (The M.V.P. Radio Edit) M.V.P. 3:33 $2.19 View In iTunes Total: 67 Songs
Customer Reviews
Puh-leese.
I guess one-hit wonder is extremely subjective. Chris Cornell as a one-hit wonder? Puh-leese.
brings back the memories
although i think they should have put
shake it - Metrostation
they have a huge one hit wonder in 2008
missing
They are deffinately missing Shake it - Metrostation but still good
