Top 100 One Hit Wonders of the 90s

1990's Lists

Note: For the purpose of this list I will take the liberal interpretation of the term "One Hit Wonder"

The Verve- Urban Hymns

No.	Song	Artist	Album	Year
1	Bittersweet Symphony	The Verve	Urban Hymns	1997
2	One Headlight	The Wallflowers	Bringing Down the Horse	1996
3	The Way	Fastball	All the Pain Money can Buy	1998
4	Nothing Compares 2 U (Cover)	Sinead O'Connor	I don't want what I haven't got	1990
5	In the Meantime	Spacehog	Resident Alien	1995
6	Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth	Primitive Radio Gods	Rocket	1996
7	Flagpole Sitta	Harvey Danger	Where have all the Merrymakers gone?	1998
8	Counting Blue Cars	Dishwalla	Pet your Friends	1995
9	Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm	Crash Test Dummies	God Shuffled his Feet	1993
10	Fade into you	Mazzy Star	So Tonight that I Might See	1993
11	Low	Cracker	Kerosene Hat	1993
12	Closing Time	Semisonic	Feeling Strangely Fine	1998
13	Blue	Eiffel 65	Europop	1999
14	Runaway Train	Soul Asylum	Grave Dancer's Union	1992
15	Steal my Sunshine	Len	You can't Stop the Bum Rush	1999
16	What is Love?	Haddaway	Haddaway	1993
17	Constant Craving	K.D. Lang	Ingenue	1992
18	Your Woman	White Town	Women in Technology	1997
19	Cannonball	The Breeders	Last Splash	1993
20	I'm the Scatman	Scatman John	Best of Scatman John	1994
21	One of us	Joan Osborne	Relish	1995
22	Bound for the Floor	Local H	As Good as Dead	1996
23	You Gotta be	Des'ree	I Ain't Movin'	1994
24	Narcotic	Liquido	Liquido	1999
25	Far Behind	Candlebox	Candlebox	1993
26	Feed the Tree	Belly	Star	1993
27	Natural One	Folk Implosion	Soundtrack: KIDS	1995
28	Stay	Lisa Loeb	Tails	1994
29	Torn (Cover)	Natalie Imbruglia	Left of the Middle	1998
30	Pepper	Butthole Surfers	Electriclarryland	1996
31	Possum Kingdom	Toadies	Rubberneck	1994
32	Lemon Tree	Fool's Garden	Dish of the Day	1995
33	Not an Addict	K's Choice	Paradise in me	1996
34	I Wish	Skee-Lo	I Wish	1995
35	Tubthumping	Chumbawamba	Tubthumper	1997
36	Sandstorm	Darude	Before the Storm	1999
37	Something Good	Utah Saints	Utah Saints	1992
38	Sex and Candy	Marcy Playground	Marcy Playground	1997
39	The Freshman	Verve Pipe	Villains	1996
40	Stuck on you	Failure	Fantastic Planet	1996
41	Inside	Stiltskin	The Mind's Eye	1994
42	3 Strange Days	School of Fish	School of Fish	1991
43	What it's like	Everlast	Whitey Ford Sings the Blues	1998
44	Sweet Harmony	The Beloved	Conscience	1993
45	If you don't Love me	Pete Droge	Soundtrack: Dumb and Dumber	1994
46	Sleeping Satellite	Tasmin Archer	Great Expectations	1993
47	Rhythm of the Night	Corona	The Rhythm of the Night	1995
48	Save Tonight	Eagle Eye Cherry	Desireless	1996
49	Bitch	Meredith Brooks	Blurring the Edges	1997
50	Why I'm here	Oleander	February Son	1999
51	Thong Song	Sisqo	Unleash The Dragon	1999
52	Lovefool	The Cardigans	First Band on the Moon	1996
53	Pure Morning	Placebo	Without you I'm Nothing	1998
54	She's so High	Tal Bachman	Tal Bachman	1999
55	Novocaine for the Soul	Eels	Beautiful Freak	1996
56	The Mummers Dance	Loreena McKennitt	The Book of Secrets	1997
57	My Own Worst Enemy	Lit	A Place in the Sun	1999
58	Cumbersome	7 Mary 3	American Standard	1995
59	Bad Reputation	Freedy Johnston	This Perfect World	1994
60	Closer to Free	The BoDeans	Go Slow Down	1993
61	Baby when the Lights go out	Five	5ive	1998
62	That ain't Bad	Ratcat	Tingles	1991
63	In the House of Stone and Light	Martin Page	In the House of Stone and Light	1995
64	Missing	Everything but the Girl	Amplified Heart	1994
65	MMMBop	Hanson	Middle of Nowhere	1997
66	Roll to me	Del Amitri	Twisted	1995
67	Hot Steppa	Ini Kamoze	Lyrical Gangsta	1995
68	Sonny Came Home	Shawn Colvin	A Few Small Repairs	1996
69	Dizz Knee Land	Dada	Puzzle	1992
70	Little Black Backpack	Stroke 9	Nasty Little Thoughts	1999
71	All for you	Sister Hazel	...Somewhere More Familiar	1997
72	Connection	Elastica	Elastica	1995
73	Jessie	Joshua Kadison	Painted Desert Serenade	1993
74	Walking in Memphis	Marc Cohn	Marc Cohn	1991
75	Friends of P	The Rentals	Return of the Rentals	1995
76	Macarena	Los Del Mar	Single	1995
77	Right here Right Now	Jesus Jones	Doubt	1991
78	Whoever you are	Geggy Tah	Sacred Cow	1996
79	Mambo No.5	Lou Bega	A Little Bit of Mambo	1999
80	Salesmen, Cheats and Liars	The Lowest of the Low	Shakespeare my Butt	1991
81	What do you want from me?	Monaco	Music for Pleasure	1997
82	Here and Now	Letters to Cleo	Aurora Gory Alice	1994
83	If you Could only See	Tonic	Lemon Parade	1996
84	Everything Falls Apart	Dog's Eye View	Happy Nowhere	1995
85	Kiss Them for me	Siouxsie and the Banshees	Superstition	1991
86	New Age Girl	Deadeye Dick	Soundtrack: Dumb and Dumber	1994
87	Disconnected	Face to Face	Don't Turn Away	1994
88	No Rain	Blind Melon	Blind Melon	1992
89	When Worlds Collide	Powerman 5000	Tonight the Stars Revolt	1999
90	Brimful of Asha	Cornershop	When I was Born for the 7th Time	1997
91	I'm too Sexy	Right Said Fred	Up	1992
92	Laid	James	Laid	1993
93	Can you Dig it	The Mock Turtles	Turtle Soup	1991
94	What's up	4 Non Blondes	Bigger, Better, Faster, More!	1993
95	Mr. Vain	Culture Beat	Serenity	1993
96	Insensitive	Jann Arden	Living Under June	1995
97	Gentlemen who Fell	Milla Jovovich	The Divine Comedy	1994
98	I'll be There for you	The Rembrandts	LP	1995
99	Stars	Hum	You'd Prefer an Astronaut	1995
100	I Gotta Man	Positive K	The Skills Dat Pay Da Bills	1992

	Posted 8/17/11 by the Rock Czar

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0 #1 Hmm — arw 2013-05-30 16:55

Good choices but 1 hit wonders? not quite.

Eels lol

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