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One-Hit Wonders by the Decades
The 1950s – The One Hit Wonders of the ’50s
The 50s mark the first documented use of the term One-Hit Wonder in 1956. Jukeboxes full of 45s kept people dancing. This allowed the creation of more than one one-hit wonder.
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The 1960s – The One Hit Wonders of the ’60s
The 1960s brought us the most one-hit wonders. Recording techniques were improving. Records started to play in stereo!
The LP rotated at a speed of 33 and 1/3 revolutions per minute. This became the popular way for artists to release music. The 8 track tape brought music to people in cars in a way radio couldn’t.
The Beatles changed music forever. Lots of musicians thought they could do it too.
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The 1970s – The One Hit Wonders of the ’70s
The 70s saw popular music mature.
FM radio changed the way music was listened to by bringing stereo to the radio. Disco brought DJs into nightclubs. The single still was their favorite way to keep people dancing.
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The 1980s – The One Hit Wonders of the ’80s
The 80s saw music move into the digital world with the advent of the Compact Disc which held 74 minutes of uncompressed music.
Disco died. The second British musical invasion came and went. It was called New Wave and spawned a slew of one-hit wonders.
The major record companies became obsessed with the bottom line and brought about the birth of Corporate Rock. The movie Valley Girl had people dancing to punk and new wave by swinging their arms in an odd way.
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The 1990s – The One Hit Wonders of the ’90s
Corporate rock was stomped out by Grunge.
Digital recording started becoming the future of recording as computers started getting faster and cheaper. AutoTune was launched in 1997 allowing singers to be tuned digitally. It became easier for someone that couldn’t sing to make records.
People danced in mosh pits at the iconic music festival Lollapalooza.
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The 2000s – The One Hit Wonders of the 2000s
This is as far back in time as we can reasonably go, since artists with only one hit might STILL come back and have another.
Mp3s and Napster kept college students dancing in their dorms.
Spotify launched in 2006 in Sweden. Apple laptops and cheap Chinese knock-off mics made it easy for songs to be recorded in bedrooms.
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