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Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
These people making up criteria to satisfy themselves.  |
No. There are several sources that use that criteria. That is why someone like Vanilla Ice had two top 10 hits but Vh1 classified him as a one-hit wonder. Everyone knows "Ice Ice Baby," but who really knows "Play That Funky Music"? By Billboard's definition (and several other sources actually) anyone who had more than one top 40 hit is a not one-hit wonder, but even that is a flawed system. For example, Artist A had a song that peaked @ #1 and another song that peaked @ #41, and Artist B had a song that peaked @ #2 and one that peaked at #39. By their standards, Artist A is a one-hit wonder and Artist B is not in that territory, even though their second songs didn't differ much in chart position. Something like "At Last" failed to even make the top 40 at its peak but has gone on to have a stronger legacy than most top 10 hits. Was/is it not a hit? The definition of one-hit wonder has always varied, especially from artists to artists.
Anyway, "Good Time" is a decent sized hit and
Kiss is supposedly made up of chart hits, so I wouldn't count Carly out. However, "Good Time" doesn't feel like much of a "hit."
