Hit Parade: One and Done, Part 2

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🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hit Parade is back for non-Slate Plus listeners! Upcoming episodes will be split into two parts, released two weeks apart. For full episodes on the day of release, sign up for Slate Plus and you'll also get The Bridge, our trivia show and deep dive into our subjects. slate.com/hitparadeplus. In part two of our one-hit wonders show, we propose three rules to identify a one-hit wonder, which is not as easy as it sounds: Dexys Midnight Runners? They’re a one-hit wonder. Men Without Hats? Nope, not fair. Lou Reed? Yes. Marky Mark? No. In this episode, Chris breaks it all down, explaining why “Take on Me” is a pop classic but A-ha are still only one-hitters in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine, about the hits from
0:15.9	Coast to Coast.
0:17.3	I'm Chris Malanfi, Chart Analysts, Pop Critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This
0:22.2	Song Number One series?
0:24.0	On our last episode, we talked about the much debated concept of the one-hit
0:31.0	wonder, and I laid out all of the factors that go into determining what makes certain
0:37.4	artists qualify for and escape that ignominious term. Now I'm going to present my three rules for one hit
0:46.6	Wundered.
0:49.2	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and Fantastic Four.
0:55.0	I'd like to personally invite you to listen to Office Hours Live with me and my co-hosts,
0:59.6	DJ, Doug Pound, and Vic Berger.
1:02.6	Howdy.
1:03.6	Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games, and lots of other surprises.
1:06.5	It's live, we take your Zoom calls.
1:08.4	We love having fun.
1:10.1	Songs.
1:10.5	Vick said something.
1:11.3	Music.
1:12.1	Music. I like having fun. I like to. songs. I first came up with my one-hit wonder rules eight years ago when I was the
1:28.6	online chart columnist for New York newspaper The Village Voice.
1:33.0	Back then, what prompted me to write about the concept was this song,
1:38.0	a top 10 hit in September of 2012. Anywhere I'm in if you're down to get down tonight.
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