2000s One Hit Wonders

some surprises here - Macy Gray a one hit wonder? Samantha Mumba was from this decade?!

danzig posts to ilm????

damn, I could happily vote for any of these:

2. Terror Squad - Lean Back
12. Cassie - Me & U
15. Lumidee - Never Leave You - Uh Ooh, Uh Oooh!
17. Kevin Lyttle feat. Spragga Benz - Turn Me On
18. Youngbloodz feat. Lil Jon - Damn!
27. Rich Boy feat. Polow Da Don - Throw Some D's
29. Tweet - Oops (Oh My)

where my ninas at?

I went "from this decade?" at Lou Bega & Ruff Endz

feels so weird to think of some of these as one-hit wonders! blu cantrell's "breathe" was much bigger than "hit 'em up style" over here.

2. Terror Squad - Lean Back
8. Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)
10. Dream - He Loves U Not
11. J-Kwon - Tipsy
15. Lumidee - Never Leave You - Uh Ooh, Uh Oooh!
17. Kevin Lyttle feat. Spragga Benz - Turn Me On
20. Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You
22. Macy Gray - I Try
24. Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
27. Rich Boy feat. Polow Da Don - Throw Some D's
29. Tweet - Oops (Oh My)

^^so much love for all of these

26. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
26. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
26. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
26. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
26. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)

this was technically 1999 but who gives a fuck, I was gonna vote "This Is Why I'm Hot" but fuck not voting for eiffel 65 imo

voted for hit 'em up style before seeing lumidee :(

yeah who am i kidding it's lumidee

If we're operating on a "most continuing lolz derived from song long after said band has disappeared," Crazy Town's "Butterfly" walks this one for me.

29. Tweet - Oops (Oh My)

Poor girl had the misfortune of arriving about five years too early. Now her whole career could be a product of synergy with twitter.

Lumidee but Nina Sky wuz robbed.

Nina sky did not qualify i'm guessing because the sublime Oye Mi Canto managed to reach no. 12

what planet is gnarls barkley a one hit wonder, i heard those other songs all over the fuckin place

2 of the worst singles of the decade right here

Highest they've placed another single is #88 xp

it is totally lumidee, but "lean back" came up on an ipod mix a little while ago and sounded GREAT. lots of other good songs here too obv.

how the fuck do they compile that chart? I heard that stupid "Run" song and that "Smiling Faces" song a zilliuon times and then don't hear Jay Sean until he's number one.

Obv, they should change it to the "has whiney heard this" scale

Gnarls truly is the best song if the group does indeed qualify as a one hit wonder, didn't the Violent Femmes cover chart also?

Blunt & Powter are the worst imo

anyone want to defend those?

wait, i'm having second thoughts maybe should have voted Throw Some D's

the single of the decade is either "crazy" or "hey ya," so "crazy"

(whiney every one-hit wonder gets another check-for-echo hit. hell right said fred had two "hits.")

voted lumidee, but me & u and blu cantrell also good

the thing about this era is that there are usually infinite remixes on mix tapes or youtube or whatever and I probably remember some of those more than the singles themselves

like, Twista's version of "That's Why I'm Hot" which kicked Mims' ass, seriously

also Kanye's Throw Some D's remix

I thought "Laffy Taffy" was pretty horrible / extremely catchy

Blueski: "butterfly" and.... "what's left of me"?

what planet is gnarls barkley a one hit wonder, i heard those other songs all over the fuckin place

― asuckeudic (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, December 7, 2009 3:10 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

define "all over the fuckin place," because out here in REAL AMURRICA i heard like 4 of their other singles maybe twice each, usually on MTV2, and none of them got anywhere near the top 40, let alone to #2 like "Crazy" did

Blueski: "butterfly" and.... "what's left of me"?

Blunt and The Calling - don't really mind Crazy Town, stupid as it is - never heard of Lachey

surprised Baha Men aren't on this list

also thankful

thanks for straightening that out danzig. I ahd forgotten about that song. I will listen to it first thing when i get home i think.

Throw Some D's

I like a lot of these: Blunt, Powter, Lachey, Crazy Town, Blu Cantrell, Lou Bega, Eiffel 65 and Tweet. But voting for Gnarls Barkley, slightly over Macy Gray. Just double checked my Joel Whitburn: "Crazy" was indeed their one and only Top 40 song. And "I Try" was her only Top 40.

O_o

voting rich boy cuz calling cassie a one hit wonder is makin me sad

dag son didn't know you were in the fanclub

youngbloodz were 1 hitters? did 85 have any chart action?

didn't the Violent Femmes cover chart also?

Wow, just listened to this and it's one of the most unnecessary covers I've ever heard.

To be fair, the VF version of "Crazy" is only a little more necessary.

"85" had a mild amount of chart action. imo one hit wonders are basically nonexistent these days because anyone who has one big song invariably is hot enough for at least a few months to end up with a bunch of guest appearances and a couple semi-big follow ups.

also so weird to have Terror Squad at #2 on this list when it's basically a Fat Joe song and he has so many hits.

"85" only reached #53 R&B and didn't even graze the pop charts. Their second highest charter is "Presidential" (#81 Pop/#26 R&B).

Macy but somebody should really vote for J-Kwon please.

also so weird to have Terror Squad at #2 on this list when it's basically a Fat Joe song and he has so many hits.

it's true that if that qualifies then probably g-unit should too. wasn't "stunt 101" the only actual hit under the g-unit name?

'i wanna get to know you' felt like a hit, no idea if it was or was one of those R&B charting joints

Macy Gray was in LOL Spiderman.

Vanessa Carlton gets my vote for the inspired piano riff. And it's a nice tune.

Oops (Oh My) is a stone-cold classic

Also amazing - Lumidee, Cassie, Gnarls, Macy, Cantrell

Least missed - Crazy Town. Just seeing the name brings back the horror.

surprised Baha Men aren't on this list

― what fun it is to reign & sing a Slayer song tonight (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, December 8, 2009 5:11 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

this came on at the bar last night, unironically! sandwiched between MC's all I want for Christmas and a Dylan & the Dead version of knockin' on heaven's door u_u

some rad songs on this list

this list is why I like one-hit wonders so much

a thousand miles is great i cant believe i forgot about it

Laffy Taffy

that eiffel 65 shit seems like it came out 15 years ago

Eiffel 65 & Lou Bega are form the late 90's

btw how much hatred for Michelle Branch do you think Vanessa Carlton has

Gnarls Barkley is going to walk this poll on ILM.

Always meant to ask: is "walk this" a British thing? I assume it means the same thing as "walk away with," yeah?

yes

Plenty of stuff on here that I'd really like to hear right now, but the only ones I actually know the whole song of and can say with certainty that they are good throughout are "Throw Some D's" and Eiffel 65, and Eiffel 65 has more nostalgia value. "Who Let The Dogs Out" would have crushed all contenders in this poll - I have this sense that it might be the equivalent of Nate Dogg in ILX polling power.

PS, how is Youngbloodz "U-Way" not a bigger hit than "Damn!" which I've never heard of?

Why are all these songs called variations on "Ooh-Uh (Ooh-Uh-Ba-BeeBoo)"?

they're not

LOL!

I'm thinking there were less frequent one-hit-wonders during the 00's than any decade since the 50's or since one-hit-wonders started existing.

i think it was business as usual in the UK

Shouldn't Plain White T's be here for "Hey There Delilah".

Apparently not.

MacyRich Boy but somebody should really vote for J-Kwon please.

― Noodle. Tool. 2. Kool (Noodle Vague), Monday, December 7, 2009 11:55 PM (4 days ago)

I tend to confuse the Plain White Tees with the White Plains, another, better, one hit wonder.

And do iPod commercial songs count as one hit wonders? If so then there are a lot of indie rock faves that can slip in this list, right?

According to the Plain White T's wikipedia "(the music video) has found success on the weekly VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown, having charted for over three months straight since late January, peaking at #5."

I no idea anybody kept track of the Vh1 Top 20 Video Countdown outside of the host of the show.

lex is right, the only blue cantrell song i know is breathe
me & u is decade top ten 4 me so uh that

get to know "hit em up style"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kQDyCTSzpg

^^^^
Easy choice. I was just watching that video repeatedly about a month ago. <3 Blu!!!!

just so ppl know, anyone who votes Hinder is getting the gasface

for comparison, for the americans, "breathe", which was no 1 over here for weeks and weeks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSfgMKw84Q

We got "Breathe" but everyone forgets that it exists.

"Breathe" was great, especially because it got to No. 1 without even being playlisted on Radio 1.

Baha Men only got to #40 in the US, despite its apparent ubiquity.

tossing up between:
Terror Squad - Lean Back
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)
Cassie - Me & U
Tweet - Oops (Oh My)

think Terror Squad vs Tweet is going to be the decider

Baha Men only got to #40 in the US, despite its apparent ubiquity.

― danzig, Friday, December 11, 2009 5:57 PM Bookmark

This blows my mind more than any other deadly hit-status reveal on this thread. Holy COW that song was inescapable. I guess it helped that I was at UGA at the time (mascot: bulldog) so it got extra exposure. But still! That was a GIANT hit in my mind.

Definitely, the "featuring" phenomenon really dialed down one-hit wonder status in the 00s...I mean, applying pedantic "one-hit" criteria fails even more here than usual because, okay, Macy Gray only had one "hit" but we remember her being AROUND for a good bit longer thanks to things like that Black Eyed Peas single where she rasps for a while about the radio-man telling her secrets or whatever.

Really, she might be the prototypical 2000s celebrity who insinuated herself so rapidly into the production of everything that her one-hit status as a pop star was irrelevant. Check these Wikipedia facts:

Gray sang the theme song for Nickelodeon's As Told By Ginger.
In 2002 she was the voice for Seeiah Owens in the video game SSX Tricky.
She appeared at the 2008 Gulf Air's Bahrain Grand Prix. She stated she liked the Ferrari team and also found Jenson Button 'cute'.[64]
A cartoon based on Gray's childhood was being developed at one point, but it never came to fruition.[37][38]

And, wtf:

Macy recently launched a new campaign under the name Nemesis Jaxson, with upcoming single, "Slap a Bitch".[57] Slap a Bitch has not been released as of June 2009, but a video featuring many people slapping each other's faces was released on the Internet around December 12, 2008.

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went for rich boy because why not, not why

"Who Let the Dogs Out?" was inescapable because it was marketed *directly* to sports teams/ stadiums. So it wasn't a case of teams deciding to use a big hit to pump up fans -- they just used the song so much everyone thought it was a big hit. I wonder if something similar happened with "Let's Get It Started."

That's a really bad comparison considering the BEPs were coming off two top 40 hits from the same album.

Speaking of which, is it just me or does "Hey Mama" seem relatively less well remembered these days than other BEP hits?

"Let's Get It Started" was used in sports promos & events well before it was a single, though -- IIRC they did the new version changing the words from "Let's Get Retarded" expressly for some team or network coverage or something

maybe so, but they weren't exactly coming out of nowhere like the Baja Men were

Uh, it's not a "comparison." The producer of "Who Let the Dogs Out" used a specific marketing technique. The BEPs could possibly have done the same, maybe not.

So, basically, you guys are saying that Marketing let the dogs out.

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17. Kevin Lyttle feat. Spragga Benz - Turn Me On 0

:(

Crazy Town was robbed.