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Las Ketchup. 19 October 2002. "The Ketchup Song". A group consisting of three Spanish sisters, Las Ketchup had a number one hit in over 20 countries with "The Ketchup Song". Their follow-up singles were not as successful, and none of them managed to reach the UK chart. Michael Andrews and Gary Jules.
A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit. [1] The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take On Me" by a-ha in the United States, [2] [3] [4] which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).
Elton John scored his first solo number one in 1990. After more than a decade without a hit, Meat Loaf topped the charts for the first time in 1993. Danish pop band Aqua scored three consecutive number ones with one of the UK's biggest selling singles "Barbie Girl" in 1997, and the follow up's "Doctor Jones" and "Turn Back Time" in 1998 making ...
A one-hit wonder is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success. The term is most commonly used in regard to music performers with only one hit single that overshadows their other work. Some artists dubbed "one-hit wonders" in a ...
Celine Dion, East 17, Kris Kross, Manic Street Preachers and Take That were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1992. The 1991 Christmas number-one, "Bohemian Rhapsody"/"These Are the Days of Our Lives" by Queen, remained at number-one for the first three weeks of 1992. The first new number-one single of ...
Celine Dion has two million sellers in the top twenty best-sellers of the 1990s: "My Heart Will Go On" at 11 and "Think Twice" at 16. The latter held the UK record for the longest time taken for a single to reach number one from its initial entry on the charts (16 weeks) until beaten by "Thinking Out Loud" in 2014. [5] [4] No. Title. Artist. Year.
Backstreet Boys, The Chemical Brothers, Faithless, Lighthouse Family and Spice Girls were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1996. The 1995 Christmas number-one, "Earth Song" by Michael Jackson, remained at number-one for the first two weeks of 1996. The first new number-one single of the year was ...
Cliff Richard, Jimmy Somerville and Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers were the other artists to reach the top 10 with three singles in 1990. Beats International were one of a number of artists with two top-ten entries, including the number-one single "Dub Be Good to Me". Adamski, Black Box, Happy Mondays, Michael Bolton and The Stone Roses were ...