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Pop Culture Happy Hour

The Best One-Hit Wonders

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Some bands are The Beatles and some singers are Beyoncé: Smash after smash, their legend grows. And some artists aren't. For any one of a bunch of reasons — commercial, artistic and mysterious — some artists have one big hit song, but they don't have others. But what makes for a great one-hit wonder? Today we're debating: what is the best one-hit wonder of all time.

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Some bands are the Beatles.

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Some singers are Beyonce.

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Smash after smash, their legend grows.

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And some artists aren't.

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For any one of a bunch of reasons,

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commercial, artistic, mysterious, they have one big hit, but they don't have others. I'm

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Stephen Thompson. And I'm Linda Holmes, and today on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we're

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debating what is the best one-hit wonder of all time.

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