Needs Cleaning up: One Work Wonder

The page itself isn't broken. However, the Music folder is far and away the largest unsubdivided section, with 113 individual examples, virtually all of them "This group/performer only released one album." That's hardly unusual in the music business; there are probably more groups/performers that that statement applies to than not.

While it's not contrary to the letter of the definition, it seems to me to abuse the spirit of it: that a creator has done something once, but never gone back to it again, either leaving the field completely, or producing all their other works in a different form.

I'd like to suggest that the Music section be cleaned up and brought more in keeping with the spirit of the definition.

Clean up thread. Should be quick.

I'm not sure what criteria can be used to determine who fits and who doesn't. Only musicians whose sole song/album was a huge success? Then how does one define "huge success"?

If their only work released hit the top of or near the top of the charts then that would be this trope. If they released more than one but only one work was the hit then that is One-Hit Wonder.

Most of the examples seem fine but there are quite a few of 'one guy leaves a band after one album but the band continues on with out him' which strikes me as the wrong trope. Edit: there are a few 'they had one album' without the wonder part which also strikes me as a different trope.

edited 24th Aug '15 10:50:22 AM by Memers

Tried to check the page to gauge progress, and it seems to be a redirect to One-Book Author. Judging by that trope's name/description, which is about groups/people making one work only, I am not sure if there's anything to be done.

edited 16th Oct '15 6:57:54 PM by Berrenta

Correct me, but the work must be outstanding to count, mustn't it? Most film examples only mention creator X did just one work, regardless of acclaim or popularity.

If the requirement of being outstanding is the issue, there may need to be some criteria to separate the stellar works from the rest. For me, that's hard to gauge...

Then again, the original trope name One-Book Author and the laconic "A creator who has released one work, and almost nothing else." suggest the quality/popularity of said work is of no importance.

edited 29th Oct '15 4:28:13 AM by eroock

There is also the case of the Oscar Wilde example, qualifying him for having written only one work in one category while disregarding works he wrote in another category which are at least as well-known.

There are also cases of companies/bands whose members created other works together under other names.

edited 20th Dec '15 9:21:22 AM by Prfnoff

Locking as part of the New Year's Purge.