History OneHitWonder / ElectronicDance

* Chillwave project '''Home''' gained attention for their 2014 song "Resonance", which began being used in plenty of videos on YouTube, and, to many, still defines the chillwave and vaporwave era of the internet in the latter-half of the 2010s. While some of their other songs (most notably "We're Finally Landing") also see some use, they are still mostly known for just "Resonance".

* CHVRCHES is big name in the electronic pop scene, but they've actually only made the Hot 100 a single time: their collaboration with Marshmello "Here with Me" which hit #31

* Norwegian DJ '''Music/{{Kygo}}''' is an absolute household name in the EDM scene with many hits across Europe (especially "Firestone" and "Stole The Show"), but his only song to reach Top 40 on the US Hot 100 was "It Ain't Me", which features Music/SelenaGomez. Since Gomez is likely the whole reason why it charted, back in Europe "Firestone" or "Stole The Show" is also thought of as his SignatureSong just as often despite neither being Top 40 hits in the US.

* [[UsefulNotes/TwinCities Minneapolis-based]] '''Lipps Inc.''', the brainchild of former wedding DJ Steven Greenberg, had arguably the last major hit of the original disco era with "Funkytown" in 1980, which topped the charts globally. Outside of that, they only had one other Hot 100 hit, their 1979 debut single "Rock It", which peaked at #64. They did fairly well on the ''Billboard'' Dance chart, where "Funkyown", as you'd expect, hit #1, but they also had a second #1 ("All Night Dancing") and four more Top 10s. But of them, only a cover of Ace's "How Long?" got much traction outside of clubs, making the Top 30 on the ''Billboard'' R&B chart and charting in a few other countries (getting to #6 in Italy). In 1986 a cover of "Funkytown" by the Australian band '''Pseudo Echo''' got to #6 in ''Billboard''; it was their only success in the U.S. but they had more in their homeland.

* '''Forest for the Trees''': "Dream" was the only charting single for the solo project for Music/{{Beck}} producer Carl Stephenson.

* Norwegian DJ '''Music/{{Kygo}}''' is an absolute household name in the EDM scene with many hits across Europe (especially "Firestone" and "Stole The Show"), but his only song to reach Top 40 on the US Hot 100 was "It Ain't Me", which features Music/SelenaGomez. Since Gomez is likely the whole reason why it charted, back in Europe "Firestone" or "Stole The Show" is also thought of as his SignatureSong just as often.

* Norwegian DJ '''Music/{{Kygo}}''' is an absolute household name in the EDM scene with many hits across Europe (especially "Firestone" and "Stole The Show"), but his only song to reach Top 40 on the US Hot 100 was "It Ain't Me", which features Music/SelenaGomez and is more likely to be associated with her far more than with him, which is why back in Europe "Firestone" or "Stole The Show" is also thought of as his SignatureSong just as often.

* Norwegian DJ '''Music/{{Kygo}}''' is an absolute household name in the EDM scene with many hits across Europe (especially "Firestone" and "Stole The Show"), but his only song to reach Top 40 on the US Hot 100 was "It Ain't Me", which features Music/SelenaGomez and is more likely to be associated with her far more than with him.

* '''Music/CrystalCastles''' were a major player in the indie rock scene in the early 2010s, but they only had one charting single in most countries: 2010's "Not in Love", a cover of a song by semi-obscure 1980s Canadian new wave band Platinum Blonde. The version of Crystal Castles' cover that became a hit featured '''Robert Smith''', the legendary lead singer of Music/{{The Cure|Band}}, on lead vocals instead of frontwoman Alice Glass. The song also marked Smith's one and only chart entry as a solo artist apart from his band.

* '''Aurora''' (the UK trance duo, not to be confused with [[Music/{{AURORA}} the Norwegian singer]], who was only preschool/kindergarten-age when the group were active) are most remembered for their cover of Music/DuranDuran's "Ordinary World" featuring Naimee Coleman, which was a #5 hit in their home country and made #37 on the Billboard dance club charts in the US. The closest they got to a second hit was the now-forgotten "Hear You Calling", whose 2000 reissue peaked at #17.

* '''Everything But The Girl''''s only American hit was "Missing" which peaked at #2 in 1996. In their native England, they had five top 20 hits and numerous hits on the dance and indie charts. Before "Missing", the band was known for performing SophistiPop, and the single's success resulted in a GenreShift. However, no further hits came for the band in the United States.

* '''Gummibär''', a German [[VirtualCelebrity Virtual Musician]] represented by a cartoon gummy bear, had a hit catchy novelty song, "I'm a Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)", that managed to hit #28 on Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, show up on Top 100 charts in other countries, and become one of the most memorable {{Meme}}s of the TurnOfTheMillennium. Similar to the Hampton the Hamster example below, Gummibär still produces songs to this day, but they remain obscure and Gummibär would never reach the success "I'm a Gummy Bear" had again.

* In 2000, one of the first examples of web-based MemeticMutation produced a one-hit wonder. A Canadian art student created a Website/{{Geocities}} page featuring animated [=GIFs=] of hamsters dancing to a sped-up sample of Roger Miller's "Whistle Stop" from Creator/{{Disney}}'s version of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973''. This was later sampled into a Eurodance song called the "Hampster Dance", credited to '''Hampton the Hampster'''. It went to #1 in Canada, and after a Hampster Dance album was released, Hampton was never heard from again.

* '''The Hues Corporation''''s only hit that is remembered today is the #1 "Rock the Boat," which is believed to be the first disco #1. Their second single "Rockin' Soul" hit #18, but it remains largely forgotten today. In fact, on Spotify, "Rock the Boat" has 54 million plays, while none of their other songs have even cracked one million.

* '''Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band''', who performed an unusual combination of disco and 1940s big band music, scored a #27 hit in 1976 with "Cherchez Le Femme". Bandleader August Darnell later achieved cult fame in the 1980s as the leader of Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

* '''Alicia Bridges''' had a big top 5 hit in early 1979 with "I Love The Nightlife". Unfortunately, she was basically a {{Soul}}-influenced rock singer who [[BlackSheepHit didn't have any other disco material]] to successfully follow it up with.

* '''Alicia Bridges''' had a big top 5 hit in early 1979 with "I Love The Nightlife". Unfortunately, she wasn't a disco singer so she didn't have any real material to successfully follow-up with.

* '''Lipps Inc.''' has done little of note besides their 1980 hit "Funkytown". They've hit the Hot 100 again with "Rock It", but that only made it to #64. They followed up with another single, "Designer Music", but nobody remembers it, and a cover of Ace's "How Long?" charted in a few other countries, but not in America. Six years later a cover by the Australian band '''Pseudo Echo''' got to #6; it was their only success in the U.S. but they had more in their homeland.

* '''{{Music/Sarina Paris}}'s''' "Look at Us". She had more limited success with "Just About Enough", and never again achieved the popularity of her first single.

* '''Sarina Paris's''' "Look at Us". She had more limited success with "Just About Enough", and never again achieved the popularity of her first single.

* '''Sam and The Womp''' had a massive #1 hit in the UK with their novelty song "Bom Bom". It also landed in the Top 20 of most European countries (and Australia). After that, they've failed to scrape the bottom of any chart whatsoever. While it wasn't a success in America, only barely scraping the dance charts, it is well-known to many American gamers as [[SongAssociation that really weird song]] in ''VideoGame/ForzaHorizon''.

* Swedish DJ '''[=AronChupa=]''' only managed one hit - "I'm an Albatraoz", with his sister '''Nora Ekberg''' on vocals. It went to #1 in Sweden, and peaked at #25 on the UK charts. That was the last the world ever heard from either sibling.

* '''Mirwais''', producer of Music/{{Madonna}}'s ''Music'', ''American Life'', and ''Confessions on a Dancefloor'' albums, has only had one notable solo hit, "Naive Song", which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 2000.

* '''Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina''' reached #16 with "Stereo Love". Neither of them had another hit anywhere else.