And your wife bought only 500 of them. I just googled this and scrolled through it: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/266487/one-hit-wonders-of-the-2000s-page-1 ...and I feel sorry for all you kids that were subjected to that stuff eta: this was their one hit:
It was pretty much a side project for both members, but it's just about the best song of the 2000s and they don't really have another song that anyone remembers.
One hit wonder?? Have you never heard of "How's it gong to be"? "Semi-Charmed Life"? I felt like half that album was on the radio that year. In fact, that was like 1997, not early 2000s
And yet, I would guess the vast majority of people on this board couldn't name one other James Blunt song without searching. Like I said, I was relying on the wikipedia list of one hit wonders. The definition they were using was singles in the top 40. If you only had one, you made the list. I didn't even know Blunt had released 4 other albums, because they didn't get enough penetration to reach me. t.A.T.u. released six studio albums, and sold millions of albums worldwide, but I would still consider them a one hit wonder. I made a few specific exclusions because I was more personally familiar with their body of work.
He’s had a handful of other songs that have made the Billboard top 30s or better. He is most known for that one song, but generally one hit wonders imply they didn’t do anything else. Perhaps it’s just a question of semantics. For example, his song High reached number 12.
The entire album "Hunting High And Low" was really solid, but people remember "Take On Me" because the video was so iconic and revolutionary. However: "The Sun Always Shines on TV" hit the top 20 in the U.S. and won a couple of MTV Video Awards as well.
First time I heard that on the radio I swore it was some Peter Gabriel song I'd never heard before. I always thought this one was cool:
Most people, like me, probably don't think that is one of the best, and in fact think that it is mostly annoying.
