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Test your music knowledge with the All One-Hit Wonder Artists Quiz. Can you name the artists who only had one song in the Top 40 charts?

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All One-Hit Wonder Artists

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Name the artists which had only song in the Top 40 charts thru 2015. Sorted by most recent to oldest peak position on the top 40. Song and year of peak position shown. First two words accepted for longer artist names. Keep in mind some of these are multiple artists, the individual artists may have had a top 40 hit, but the combo of artists only had one.

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Aliyahu

7 months ago

It’s been ~10 years, any chance this quiz can get an update?

mvail2

2 years ago

blink 182 being on here is criminal

kidcanada

3 years ago

I love how by these parameters, Beck and Oasis are one-hit wonders.

hcshannon

3 years ago

Reply to kidcanada

So are Lou Reed, Grateful Dead, and Frank Zappa.

Ovamiat

2 years ago

Reply to kidcanada

I love this fact even more.

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