Our analysis of one-hit wonders has provided some pretty surprising results.
If you know these acts, reading their names has probably started a song playing in your head.MMMBop. Mickey. My Sharona. Who Let The Dogs Out? Loving You. Tubthumping.This is the magic and the curse of the one-hit wonder — that your name is instantly recognisable and forever connected to a single piece of music, but that's as far as your career extends in the minds of the masses.
The key figure here is the "secondary success rate" between these acts' biggest hit and their second-most streamed song. If the big hit had 1,000 streams, and the second got just 100, then the second song was only 10 per cent as successful.As for the definition of "hit", we've set it at 10 million streams. So sorry Mr Dolce, you missed the cut .Obviously this is a flawed approach to answer a ridiculous and redundant question.There's also the complicating factor of having multiple versions of the same song on the streaming platform.
The advantage of using Spotify data is it gives a good real-time assessment of a song's popularity, as well as providing a relatively even playing field for comparing acts from different eras and different countries.Firstly, let's go through some of the surprising results — the acts that aren't even close to being one-hit wonders using our metric, despite what you might think.
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