One Hit Wonders

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[onthebusesfan]

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I Quite Liked This One

[Jay Mc]

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http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/26315/a-ha/

or this

[Jay Mc]

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1985	Hunting High and Low Released: 31 May 1985 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: CD, CS, LP	1	15	1	7	10	17	11	1	10	8	2	15	RIAA: Platinum[15] BPI: 3× Platinum[16] BVMI: 3× Gold[17] SNEP: Platinum[18] NVPI: Gold[19] ABPD: Gold[20]
1986	Scoundrel Days Released: 6 October 1986 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: CD, CS, LP	1	17	9	7	4	11	6	11	6	6	2	74	BPI: Platinum[16] BVMI: Platinum[17] SNEP: Platinum[18] ABPD: Platinum[20] IFPI SWI: Platinum[21]
1988	Stay on These Roads Released: 1 May 1988 Label: Warner Bros. Records Formats: CD, CS, LP	1	—	9	3	4	2	5	10	6	5	2	148	BPI: Gold[16] BVMI: Gold[17] SNEP: 2× Platinum[22] NVPI: Gold[23] ABPD: Platinum[20] IFPI SWI: Gold[24]
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not sure this constitutes one hit wonders

[zabadak]

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Aha!

[wispa lover]

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A-ha was a one hit wonder in the US with 'Take on me', maybe because of the iconic video.

[zabadak]

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My two faves by them are Manhattan Skyline (espesh the 12" version) and Cry Wolf, the first record I played on my then-new HiFi

[EddyP]

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"The sun always shines on tv" got to UK #1 whereas "Take on me" did not...

Well... this is embarrassing

[zabadak]

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"The sun always shines on tv" got to UK #1 whereas "Take on me" did not...

[ann22]

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They actually had a few other hits. "Hunting high and low", "The sun always shines on tv" and "Crying in the rain"

[EddyP]

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A-ha - Take On Me!

[lemonlime]

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The main one I can remember is 99 Red Balloons by Nena. It was pretty big at the time. Really catchy and "exotic" because German bands were hardly ever on the charts! Plus remember back in the 80s nuclear war was a real worry for most of us, so it struck a chord.

Flying Pickets- Only You

Special AKA Free Nelson Mandela

Weather Girls- It's Raining Men



Also I don't know if anyone remembers but there was this stupid band called The Beatles in the early 60s who had a hit with Love Me Do. The Beatles!? Ridiculous name. I can't imagine they got far with that name.

[darren]

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HALE AND PACE

23 March 1991

THE STONK

CHARITY SINGLE FOR COMIC RELIEF.

[Twocky61]

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A brilliant one hit wonder for me has to be for me Frijjid Pink's version House of the Rising Sun with the leccy
guitar intro

[philipdalton]

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I don't know if anyone has mentioned The Regents on here before. '7teen' is the only of theirs which reached the Top 40 and would therefore have been featured in the chart rundown on Radio 1.