One Book Author / Creatives Music

Alternative & Indie

• A.O.S. have only ever released one song, "History (Repeats Itself)", which appeared in Natural Born Killers and appeared in an edited form on the soundtrack album. For a while, it was a mystery who the artist even was, with the only hint being songwriting credits for Thomas Wilbrandt, Klaus Buhlert, and Fay Lovsky. As it turns out, German composer Buhlert was the main writer of the song, with vocalist Lovsky adding lyrics and a vocal melody to the instrumental, and the song incorporated loops from an album of Erik Satie compositions arranged by Wilbrandt, who otherwise wasn't involved in the project. A full A.O.S album was produced, including a few other tracks with Lovsky's vocals, but it remains a Missing Episode since a record deal never materialized.
• Bad Ronald, a band that mixed rap, rock and crude humor in a similar way to The Bloodhound Gang (and obviously borrowed their name from an infamous Made-for-TV Movie), had the misfortune of releasing their self-titled debut album on September 11, 2001. Still, their memorable video for "Let's Begin (Shoot The Sh**)", done as a Subverted Kids' Show (doubly so since the song is an extensive Ode to Intoxication), got a bit of a MTV play, but neither the album or the single charted and it was their only release.
• The Fitness's Call Me For Together is their sole album; they have never produced anything more.
• Forest for the Trees' self-titled album, which itself was a Troubled Production that almost never saw the light of day due to Carl Stephenson having a nervous breakdown. There is the somewhat hard to find EP Sounds of Wet Paint, which combined remixes with a few outtakes from the debut (including a Cover Version of the title song from The Sound of Music oddly enough), and a second album was reportedly finished but never released.
• Another one for the list of rapidly-disintegrating supergroups is Freebass, the collaboration between Peter Hook (New Order), Gary Mountfield (The Stone Roses) and Andy Rourke (The Smiths). The group had already fallen apart and announced their split before their sole album, It's A Beautiful Life, came out in 2010.
• The Glove (not to be confused with the American Alternative Dance group Glove), a supergroup consisting of The Cure singer Robert Smith, Siouxsie and the Banshees bassist Steve Severin, and singer Jeannete Landray, released one album, Blue Sunshine.
  • Another short-lived Cure side-project was Cult Hero, consisting of the members of The Cure c. 1979, various members of Smith's family, a couple members of local bands (including future Cure members Matthieu Hartley and Simon Gallup and former member Porl Thompson (who would later rejoin the band)) and Smith's postman, Frank Bell on vocals. The group was supposedly formed to see how well Gallup would gel with the other members of The Cure. After one single, 1979's "I'm A Cult Hero"/"I Dig You", Cult Hero disbanded and never recorded a thing again.
• Indie Rock trio Jinx's only record was the 2002 vinyl single "King of the Rats" b/w "Bed of Pipes".
• The entire recorded output of British-Punjabi singer Bubbley Kaur is the 2011 collaborative album she made with Cornershop, And The Double 'O' Groove Of. Although many reviewers praised the album and hailed Kaur as a great discovery, it appears she never pursued a musical career any further.
• Scottish band Life Without Buildings released one album, 'Any Other City', before breaking up.
• The band Lincoln released a Self-Titled Album in 1997 and became an opening act for They Might Be Giants. After they broke up in 1998 without releasing a follow-up, guitarist Dan Miller and bassist Danny Weinkauf joined TMBG's backing band and have been there ever since.
• Above, the lone album by grunge supergroup Mad Season. The band's singer was Alice in Chains' Layne Staley, and his 2002 death, along with the bassist's 1999 death, ended any chance of a second album.
• Seattle band Mother Love Bone released one EP and one LP, later compiled to one album. The band, destined to help lead the up-and-coming grunge movement of the 1990s, fizzled after singer Andrew Wood fatally overdosed in 1990. After Wood died, Soundgarden members Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron, who were good friends with Andrew Wood, partnered with singer Eddie Vedder and MLB members Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard to release one self-titled album as Temple of the Dog as a tribute to Wood, featuring hits such as "Hunger Strike" and "Say Hello 2 Heaven." As the album was being recorded and released, Ament, Gossard, and Vedder formed their own band, Pearl Jam, and Temple of the Dog broke up, with both respective bands skyrocketing to success on their own. After the success of Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog, Wood's earlier band, Malfunkshun, had all its songs compiled to one posthumous release, Return to Olympus.
• Rhode Island-based New Wave Music band The Mundanes only had one release during the band's lifespan, a single for their own song "Make It The Same". They broke up only a few years after the single's release after failing to secure a record deal, despite their popularity in the local music scene. Shortly before their breakup, the band's keyboardist, John Linnell, left the band to co-found the much more successful Alternative Rock band They Might Be Giants with John Flansburgh. Despite falling into relative obscurity, many of their unreleased demos were leaked online decades after their breakup.
• Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too, released in 1998, is the sole album by New Radicals, containing the hit "You Get What You Give." Lead singer Gregg Alexander, a singer-songwriter known for his mixture of catchiness and cynicism, released two albums beforehand before forming the New Radicals. He split up the band as he was gaining fame (hurting the performance of second single "Someday We'll Know", which still gained some fame due to a version featured in A Walk to Remember), becoming a professional songwriter for other artists, his most notable song being "You Get What You Give" soundalike "Game of Love" for Santana and Michelle Branch. Ironically, while "Game" became a much bigger hit than "Give" was, the latter is better remembered today.
  • This is an interesting example because New Radicals kept changing lineup, the only members consistent throughout the whole time were Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois. Danielle released two solo albums featuring Gregg Alexander as co-writer and guest performer on almost every track, meaning that they are technically also New Radicals albums. Rick Nowels co-wrote most New Radicals songs, however, despite not actually being a member of the band, so take from that what you will.
• Grab That Gun is the first and only album from all-girl Post-Punk Revival band The Organ.
• The Grand Pecking Order by Oysterhead, the short-lived Supergroup of Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool and Stewart Copeland.
• P, an alternative rock group featuring Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes, Johnny Depp, Sal Jenco (who played Blowfish on 21 Jump Street), and songwriter Bill Carter, released one self-titled album in 1995.
• Rapeman was a noise-rock supergroup active for a very brief time in the late 1980s. Its members were Steve Albini (Big Black, and later Shellac), David Wm. Sims (Scratch Acid) and Rey Washam (big Boys and Scratch Acid). Their complete discography consists of their lone LP Two Nuns and a Pack Mule, an EP called Budd (included in full on the CD reissue of Two Nuns) and two 7'' singles.
• Girls Talk, released in the spring of 1991, was the only proper full-length album from ultra-girly Girl Group The Rebel Pebbles. Aside from a three-song EP prior to the album, they released absolutely nothing else.
• Despite having various singles recorded under different aliases (such as Loose Joints and 1-800-DINOSAUR), as well as a massive collection of posthumous recordings, World of Echo is the only full-length album that experimental musician Arthur Russell completed and released during his lifetime.
• Splendora, an all-girl 90s grunge group notable for singing the theme song to Daria, only ever produced one album, In the Grass. They did later reunite to create songs for the two Daria TV Movies, "Turn the Sun Down" and "College Try".
• Early 90s Britpop band Starclub had a Top 10 US alt-rock radio hit, "Hard To Get", but broke up after only one album.
• Another supergroup who only managed one album was Billy Corgan's Zwan, who released their sole album, Mary Star of the Sea in 2003 and broke up later that year.

Country

• Archer/Park was a country duo that broke up after only one album in 1994. They are also a triple example: in the 21st century, Randy Archer recorded only one solo album while Johnny Park and his son Clint did one album as The Parks.
• The only song ever recorded by studio band The Bandit Brothers was "Women", their parody of The Forester Sisters' 1991 hit "Men".
• In the 1980s, Nashville songwriters Bob DiPiero and John Scott Sherrill formed a country music band called Billy Hill, in which they alternated as lead vocalists (both in the guise of the a fictional character also named Billy Hill) with backing from former Detroit Wheels member Dennis Robbins, Steve Earle's former bassist Reno Kling, and session drummer Martin Parker. They did one album for Reprise and broke up before a second was completed, although one of the tracks from the second ("The Church on Cumberland Road") was later a #1 for Shenandoah. Robbins also had two solo albums and a handful of songwriting credits.
• Blue County was a one-off collaboration between Aaron Benward (formerly of father-and-son Christian music duo Aaron Jeoffrey) and Scott Reeves (who is mainly a soap actor). They did one album, and after a couple followup singles went nowhere, disbanded.
• The Buffalo Club didn't even last the entirety of 1997. Their membership was former Christian singer Ron Hemby, Doug Stone's former touring guitarist Charlie Kelly, and then-former Restless Heart drummer John Dittrich, the last of whom quit before their third and final single. Soon afterward, their label closed and Dittrich rejoined Restless Heart.
• Another group whose existence fell entirely within the year 1997, and whose membership included former members of other country bands, was Burnin' Daylight. Their members were Kurt Howell (Southern Pacific) and Sonny LeMaire (Exile), with Nashville songwriter Marc Beeson on lead vocals. After they broke up, LeMaire and Beeson continued to focus on songwriting, while Howell became a sales director at an audio technology company.
• Sarah Buxton's Self-Titled Album is her only album release to date (barring an EP that had several of the album's songs on it and a handful of guest appearances). The album itself had several tracks produced by hit Nashville songwriters: Blair Daly, Bob DiPiero, and Craig Wiseman, none of whom hold any other production credits. Despite releasing only one album, Buxton has a number of songwriting and backing vocalist credits, and was notably an Advertised Extra doing the latter on David Nail's "Let It Rain".
• Caitlin & Will won the first season of CMT's singing competition Can You Duet, released one single ("Address in the Stars") and an EP, and broke up once the single fell from the charts.
• Weather the Storm (2006) was the only album ever released by Country Music band Carolina Rain. They were in the process of making a second when their label closed.
• In 2009, CMT started up a Country Music record label. Their only release was "Heart Like Memphis", also the only single release overall for the duo Carter Twins. The duo later renamed itself Kingston, but did not release anything else.
• Country Music singer Rodney Crowell's backing band The Cherry Bombs did only one full studio album: The Notorious Cherry Bombs in 2004. Said album features a number of names who, after the band's previous dissolution in the '80s, went on to bigger and better things prior to this reunion — most notably Vince Gill, who plays lead guitar and alternates vocal duties with Crowell on the album.
• The Clark Family Experience was a Country Music band consisting of six brothers whose names all started with A. Their only output was a single, self-titled album in 2001; Executive Meddling from Curb Records resulted in the band filing for bankruptcy and dissolving. Three of the brothers later became one-book authors a second time as Sons of Sylvia; they won the only season of the FOX talent show The Next Great American Band and released the album Revelation in 2010 before breaking up too (although they were also featured on a Carrie Underwood album cut). Vocalist/fiddler Ashley Clark also became a one-book author, releasing the EP Greyhound in 2015 before his label closed.
• Country music duo Coldwater Jane, consisting of sisters Leah Crutchfield and Brandon Jane, broke up after their only album Marionette in 2011.
• Luck of Our Own (1993) was the only album ever released by country singer Dale Daniel. Keith Urban covered the title track on his 1999 self-titled debut.
• Clay Davidson released his debut album Unconditional in 2000 and had a top-3 hit on Hot Country Songs with the title track. He never released another album, due in part to his label (Virgin Records) undergoing a merger and a tour-bus accident that hampered his ability to keep touring.
• The Fun of Your Love (2000) was the only album ever released by Jennifer Day. According to various YouTube comments, she is now a music teacher.
• Country music band Cole Deggs & the Lonesome broke up after only one album.
• The only single ever released by Singer-Songwriter Daisy Dern was "Gettin' Back to You" in 2002. The corresponding album for Mercury Records was never released, but Dern has continued to write and tour with her husband Dave Gibson.
• Tyler Dickerson's only release was the single "Tell Your Sister I'm Single", which came out right before Disney-owned Country Music label Lyric Street closed in 2010. Dickerson later competed on The Voice in 2015 but was eliminated.
• Guy Drake was a 66-year-old Kentucky painter (as in painting buildings, not a visual artist) who recorded the satirical 1970 novelty recitation "Welfare Cadilac" [sic], which became a Top 10 country hit and also crossed over to the pop chart. The followup Welfare Cadilac album was his only album, though he also released a few other unsuccessful singles.
• The only credit for Tim McGraw's cousin Catherine Dunn is an Advertised Extra on McGraw's 2015 single "Diamond Rings and Old Barstools".
• Edens Edge. After one album, lead singer Hannah Blaylock quit in March 2013. The label dropped them in lieu of releasing a third single, and the other two members appear to have done a few random shows before the band's website was taken down in late 2013.
• Country Music singer Meredith Edwards' Reach is not only her only album, but also the only album released by Lance Bass's music company, Free Lance Entertainment.
• The only release for country music singer Bradley Gaskin was the single "Mr. Bartender" in 2011. Another single named "Diamonds Make Babies" was announced in 2012, but his label re-structured and the song was never released (although Dierks Bentley also cut it that same year).
• In 2003, Kenny Chesney recorded a version of "Silent Night" for his Christmas album All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan which featured his mother Karen and her twin sister Sharon (Chesney's aunt). Credited to the "Grigsby Twins", it is their only recording to date.
• Craig Hand had this happen twice. He put out the solo single "Direct Connect" in 2006 but his label closed soon afterward. Then in 2013, he recorded "Crushin'" as the lead singer of Bush Hawg, which also never put anything else out (a second single titled "More Than Corn" was announced, but it was never released and the label dropped the band).
• J. Michael Harter was this twice over. He released the album Unepxected Change in 2002 and charted the single "Hard Call to Make" before abruptly disappearing. In 2009, he paired up with his sister Leslie and their brother Scott to form the trio The Harters, which cut one EP and two singles before disbanding.
• Country Music singer Billy Hoffman recorded the 2000 album All I Wanted Was You but was never heard from again. Notably, he was able to complete this album despite being 97% deaf.
• Hot Apple Pie, fronted by former Little Texas keyboardist Brady Seals, broke up in 2005 after only one album due to DreamWorks Records closing up shop. (MCA shipped two singles off the album, but neither went anywhere.) However, Seals has continued to record solo, and sometimes uses ex-Hot Apple Pie members on his solo work.
• Julianne Hough's self-titled album from 2008 is also her only one. She recorded a second one, but never released it due to lack of interest. Hough has since become better known as an actress and dancer.
• the JaneDear girls, a duo consisting of Danelle Leverett and Susie Brown, split up after only one album. Leverett later assumed the stage name Nelly Joy and joined Colbie Caillat's country band Gone West with Joy's husband Jason Reeves and Caillat's boyfriend Justin Young; this band also split up after only one album due to Caillat and Young ending their relationship.
• Sibling duo Marie Sisters had only one, self-titled album in 2002 for Universal/Republic. It also produced only one single, "Real Bad Mood". Their only other credit was singing backing vocals on LeAnn Rimes' "Commitment" four years prior.
• Linda Martell's only album was Color Me Country in 1970. She later retired from music due to the poor treatment she got as the most prominent black woman in the genre at the time (including the rather unfortunate fact that the label she recorded for was called Plantation Records). One of the songs on the album was an early version of "Before the Next Teardrop Falls", which would become a #1 hit on the pop and country charts for Freddy Fender a few years later.
• Brad Martin released Wings of a Honky-Tonk Angel in 2002. Lead single "Before I Knew Better" was a modest hit, but a planned second album never came to be. Martin later joined songwriter John Ramey in the duo Martin Ramey in 2008, who quietly released two singles before disappearing.
• The only single ever released by the short-lived country band McAlyster was a cover of Diamond Rio's "I Know How the River Feels" in 2000. They immediately broke up and lead singer Cody Collins later joined Lonestar.
• Shane McAnally released one self-titled album in 2000. While he made no other contributions as a singer, he resurfaced in 2008 as a songwriter and record producer for the likes of Lee Ann Womack, Old Dominion, Sam Hunt, and Kacey Musgraves among others.
• Hanna-McEuen (first cousins Jaime Hanna and Jonathan McEuen, whose fathers co-founded the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) were barely two singles into their debut album when DreamWorks Records folded, and no other label picked them up. Hanna joined Gary Allan's road band, and McEuen went solo.
• Another country music singer named Shane released his one and only album in 1999: Shane Minor, who had a top-20 hit with "Slave to the Habit". He also turned to songwriting after his sole album didn't pan out.
• Miss Willie Brown was yet another female country music duo who met this fate. Consisting of Kasey Buckley and Amanda Watkins, this duo did only one EP for a 2012 re-establishment of A & M Octone Records, led off by the single "You're All That Matters to Me" — which turned out to be not only the duo's release, but also the label's.
• As Garth Brooks' 2014 single "Mom" was not available online, the song's writers Wynn Varble and Don Sampson recorded their own version as the Nashville Nuggets. This is their only recording to date.
• Country Music Super Group Old Dogs (Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, Jerry Reed, and Mel Tillis) did only one self-titled album in 1998. They were assembled by Shel Silverstein to record a collection of songs that he wrote about growing old, and he died only five months after the album; Jennings then died in 2002, further lessening the chance of any more material under this name.
• The country music group One Flew South is a double example, as their 2008 album Last of the Good Guys was not only their sole album (and "My Kind of Beautiful" its only single), but also the only release of a revival of Decca Records Nashville, which had previously been merged into MCA Nashville in 1998.
• Palomino Road broke up after only one album. Lead guitarist J. T. Corenflos went on to become a session player.
• Julie Reeves released It's About Time in 1999 on Virgin Records and, other than a couple backing vocals for then-husband Cledus T. Judd and an Uncredited Role on a Bill Engvall album track, she was never heard from again.
• Regina Regina consisted of two women with the name Regina who both had ties to Reba McEntire: Regina Leigh was a backing vocalist in her road band, and Regina Nicks was a personal assistant of McEntire's who had also done some vocals for the country trio Dave & Sugar. They recorded one album for Giant Records in 1997 and both women seem to have completely disappeared from the public eye since.
• Former Little Texas lead singer Tim Rushlow managed to be a part of this trope three times after leaving that band. (They broke up and reunited without him or Seals.) Tim did a solo album for Atlantic Records, which was blunted after the Top 10 hit "She Misses Him" due to that label closing its country division. In 2003, he and cousin Doni Harris formed a six-piece band called Rushlow, which cut only one album for Lyric Street; said album got "I Can't Be Your Friend" into top 20, but label restructuring prevented any more hits, and the band broke up. Rushlow and Harris cut two low-charting singles for Toby Keith's Show Dog label in 2006 under the name Rushlow Harris before splitting again. (As for the other four members of Rushlow? Billy Welch is now in Jake Owen's road band, while Kurt Alison, Tully Kennedy, and Rich Redmond are now in Jason Aldean's road band.^note They, along with bandmate David Fanning, also produce under the name New Voice Entertainment.)
• Songwriter Jonathan Singleton founded a band in 2009 called Jonathan Singleton & the Grove. They released two singles: "Livin' in Paradise" and "Look Who's Back in Love". The latter was included on a full album, with the Grove disbanding immediately afterward and Singleton returning to songwriting.
• Country Music duo Steel Magnolia, who won the second season of CMT's Can You Duet singing competition, broke up after only one album. "Broke up" in the literal sense, as members Joshua Scott Jones and Meghan Linsey were also boyfriend and girlfriend. Linsey went on to become a finalist on Season 8 of The Voice.
• Tommy Shane Steiner released one album, Then Came the Night, in 2002. Lead single "What If She's an Angel" was a top-5 hit on the country charts, but his only other two singles bombed and he was never heard from again.
• Cyndi Thomson quit after her first album for Capitol Records because she didn't think she could handle the pressure of a second album. As a result, she remains a One-Hit Wonder with her #1 country hit "What I Really Meant to Say". However, she also wrote Gary Allan's "Life Ain't Always Beautiful".
• Bill Trader wrote the widely-covered country standard "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" (most famously done by Elvis Presley), and never had any other songwriting success, though he wrote other songs. However, he still counts as an example because he released one album as a singer, 1962's Bill Trader Sings His Songs, which naturally gives "A Fool Such As I" a prominent place (the opening track of side two).
• Zack Turner and Tim Nichols are popular Nashville songwriters (notably Keith Whitley's "I'm Over You"), but their 1993 album as Turner Nichols was their only effort on the recording front.
• In 2007, Waycross (consisting of Ted Moxley and Ben Stennis) released a single titled "Nineteen" and then quickly disappeared. "Nineteen" was later Covered Up by Billy Ray Cyrus, and Stennis later found success as a songwriter.
• Whiskey Falls only stuck around for one album in 2007. However, their members had various connections: lead singer Seven Volpone and guitarist Wally Brandt formerly recorded in the pop-rock band Seven and the Sun; keyboardist Buck Johnson had several songwriting credits including a hit single for Santana; and guitarist Damon Johnson (no relation) charted singles with the rock band Brother Cane before joining Alice Cooper's band. After they broke up, Volpone moved to various business ventures, Wally became a producer, Buck joined Aerosmith, and Damon joined Thin Lizzy.
• Wild Choir was a one-off country-rock project founded by country singer Gail Davies in 1986. They broke up after only one unsuccessful album and Davies returned to a solo career. The album is considered a predecessor of the Alternative Country genre, and Martina McBride had a hit covering Wild Choir's third and final single "Safe in the Arms of Love" in 1995.
• The Wreckers was a one-off between solo artists Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp. They did guest vocals on a Carlos Santana song, recorded one album, and broke up before recording another.
• Curtis Wright had only one self-titled studio album in 1992 (a previous effort, Slick Hick, was never released due to the label closing). A year later, he became a one-book author a second time in the duo Orrall & Wright with frequent cowriting partner Robert Ellis Orrall (who is not a one-book author). Despite his lack of releases, Wright is still a somewhat popular songwriter and session vocalist.

Dance & Electronic

• The site Bubblegum Dancer, that collects examples of bubblegum dance music from all over the world, has plenty of artists and projects known only for one album or single. They even listed the Top 20 Bubblegum One-Hit Wonders.
• The 1998 Band Minus the Face reformation of 2 Unlimited only recorded one album, II.
• The Age of Love was a one-off supergroup consisting of Bruno Sanchioni and Giuseppe Chierchia; their self-titled single is considered to be one of the first proper trance tracks. Sanchioni later founded the trio BBE of "7 Days & One Week" fame, as well as collaborating with many others.
• Dutch trance group Alice Deejay released one album, Who Needs Guitars Anyway?, and charted five singles across Europe (and one in the US) before abruptly dissolving in 2002.
• Trance artist Alex Aréstegüi released one full-length album, Proem, in 2005, followed by a non-album single, "Discover", in 2007, and has not been heard from since.
• The Argonauts, a supergroup duo comprised of trance DJ-producers Dave Ralph and Mike Koglin, not to be confused with other bands with the same name, released just two singles; "Sommertag" in 1998, and "Frühlingstag" in 1999.
• Canadian Electronic Music group Azari & III only released one Self-Titled Album in 2011 before disbanding permanently.
• Delta Bennett's only musical credits are the lead vocals on The Bad Yard Club's "In De Ghetto" and their promo-only follow-up "Wind Up Your Body".
• Cellsite System, a Portland, Oregon based trance project, only made two albums, Between Frequencies and Mind Into Matter, the latter being a multimedia album. The website is long gone, so good luck finding the albums.
• As their Discogs page states, Chemise were an "one-off disco studio project" that only released the song "She Can't Love You" in 1982 and a remix of the same years later.
• Day Twelve, a Dark Wave duo comprised of producer Joe Lindo and vocalist Mari Kattman, only released an EP, The Hours, later extended to LP-length as Fin, before splitting up due to Lindo being overly occupied with life changes. Kattman, however, has since embarked on a solo career, as well as collaborating with now-husband Tom "Assemblage 23" Shear under the name Helix.
• The only releases by Snohomish County, WA-based indie trance musician Dejin were the full-length album As You Dream, and the "Shattered" remix single.
• Latin-American dance-pop diva Jennifer Delgado released one and only one single, "What is It (About You)?" (1998), which had a Spanish Translated Cover Version, "Que tu tienes", featured on a few Latin dance compilations.
• Italo Disco duo Dharma produced/released just one song, "Plastic Doll", in 1982.
• Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nigel Wright, for some reason, released under the name Doctor Spin a remix of the Tetris theme ("Korobeiniki") as an eurodance song, called "Tetris", and nothing else. Seriously.
  • Likewise, italo-Eurodance group Lesi Ortestral were a one-single wonder with their Speedy Techno Remake of "Korobeiniki", retitled "Vodka Fisa".
• "Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight", the sole single of Dominatrix.
• It's hard to tell whether Rob Dougan is one of these or not, considering that he appears to be a rather slow worker anyway. It took him seven years from the release of the single "Clubbed To Death" in 1995 to complete and release the accompanying full-length album Furious Angels. The album came out in 2002, in 2003 he contributed one new track to the soundtrack of The Matrix Reloaded and did the string arrangement for a Sugababes single. There has been nothing heard from him since up to mid-2014, and given that he could probably retire on the royalties from "Clubbed To Death" alone, it's easy to suspect that he's chosen to do exactly that.
• German darkwave duo Electronic Suicide produced but one promo CD EP (i.e. not released to the public), featuring the songs "Ich Wollt", "Fear", and "Wild Kisses", then went their separate ways.
• The Europop/dance/trance group DYCE released a self-titled full-length album in 2006, then seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. The last known song heard from them was a 2008 collaboration with fellow Swedes Bad Influence on a Cover Version of Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy".
• German Eurodance supergroup Flame produced only one song, "Next Time (I Promise)", in 1993.
• Techno artist Brian Natonski, better known as Gearwhore, released only one full-length album, Drive, before vanishing into the ether.
• Lies is likely all we'll hear from the synthpop duo Heartbreak. Following their split, Ali Renault recorded a solo album and is still an active producer, while Sebastian Muravchik, under the alias Anthonio, released an Answer Song single to Annie (Anne Lilia Berge-Strand)'s "Anthonio" titled "Annie" as well as producing a few singles under his real name.
• Another electro-house one-track wonder were House Heroes, whose sole release was the single "Magic Orgasm" in 1997.
• Ashley Jade's Dreaming, following her tenure with Soda Club, was her only solo album. It is unlikely she will ever return to the spotlight.
• Jumalatar only produced two EP's, Are We Thinking the Same Thing and Frenzy, before parting ways. The "Song Samples" track on the former implies that they planned to release a full-length album, but it never came to fruition.
• Kandystand only managed to produce one full-length album, Watch Out, Here I Come. They broke up due to a dispute shortly after releasing the stand-alone single "Love Invasion".
• Murat Konar's only musical foray has been the vocals on on Information Society's 1985 Breakthrough Hit single "Running".
• Another very short-lived Italian dance project was The Lawyer, whose members only released the bizarre "I Wanna Mmm..." in 1999 before parting ways.
• Greek synthwave vocalist Christine Lianou, professionally known as Kristine, released a Self-Titled Album in 2015, which it appears will be her only album. She announced on Facebook in April 2020 while her country was under COVID-19 lockdown, that she was working on new material, including a sophomore album, but has been radio silent since.
• Lisa R. Fredenthal-Lee, known mononymously as Lisa, only released a 1983 Self-Titled Album, later reissued in CD format as Jump Shout with a few post-album singles added.
• Lisa Lee, not to be confused with the aforementioned Lisa Fredenthal-Lee, only had two releases; the 1984 Synth-Pop double single "I'm Taken By You/Goner", and the 1990 House Music single "When Can I Call You".
• Los Umbrellos was a Danish pop/dance band who only released the album "Flamenco Funk" in 1997 and disbanded two years later. They were also a One-Hit Wonder for the single "No Tengo Dinero" that gained good airplay in several countries (including a #1 in Austria and #42 on the US Billboard Hot 100). The other singles however failed to chart anywhere.
• Synthpop duo Machine in Motion only released two singles, "World in Fascination" and "Color in the Rain". They produced a full-length album titled The Motion Factory, but it was never released commercially.
• Synthwave artist Mattie Maguire appears to qualify, as her only released material has been the 2015 EP Night Candy, and nary a word has been heard regarding her music career since.
• "Pump Up the Volume" was a worldwide top 10 smash in 1987, and a major influence on later examples of sampling in pop music (as well as electronic music as a whole). It was also the only single ever released by M|A|R|R|S, a collaboration between two artists on the independent record label 4AD (Dream Pop duo AR Kane and dance group Colourbox - the legal problems surrounding the record led to the former leaving the label and the latter splitting up).
• "Nightshade" and "I Wanna Be Your Star" were the only singles recorded by Melody & Mezzo before they permanently split up, although producer J-Mi later collaborated with Midi-D and Smile.dk.
• Negative Entropy, a Dutch ambient noise supergroup. Two albums, both limited production runs, of 1000 and 488 copies, respectively. The death of Geert Feytons in 2006 sealed the project's fate for good.
• Another one single band would be The Normal (who were really a solo project by Daniel Miller) - not counting an improvised live collaboration with Robert Rental, the only release was the single T.V.O.D. \ Warm Leatherette. Miller has had other musical projects, but is now mainly a Record Producer. The lone single was pretty influential to such genres as New Wave Music, Post-Punk and electroclash - "Warm Leatherette" in particular gets covered a lot.
• Electro House duo Oakland Stroke only released the 1999 single "Planet Whip", which sampled its main hook from The Dazz Band's "Let It Whip".
• Swedish Eurodance project Ondina, comprised of producer Jonas Ekfeldt (John Oakfield), behind-the-scenes vocalist Jenny Brusk, and lipsync model Petra Lundqvist, only produced two singles; "Into The Night" in 1996, and "Summer of Love" the following year.
• Norwegian band One 2 Many had a big hit in Europe with "Downtown" but split while their debut album Mirror was still being promoted.
• 1990s dance experimentalists One Dove were lauded in the British music press but released only one album, Morning Dove White. Reports vary on how close to a releaseable state the follow-up reached before they decided they'd had enough of the label's Executive Meddling and split.
• The Golden Year is the only album released by British electronic rock band Ou Est Le Swimming Pool. The band folded shortly after its release due to the suicide of their lead singer Charles Haddon who killed himself jumping from a mast at the 2010 Pukkelpop Festival earlier in the year.
• One-Hit Wonder Sarina Paris's self-titled album is her only full-length, although she later produced a couple stand-alone singles.
• Jai Paul, so far, made one album of demos that was illegally leaked on Bandcamp before they were shelved by the artist. For several years, the critically-acclaimed demos have been widely available online before XL Recordings properly released the album, with two new songs, in 2019.
• Give Up by The Postal Service. Even though they have done remixes, a few Cover Versions ^note Flaming Lips' "Suddenly Everything Has Changed" as a single B-Side, Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" for the Wicker Park soundtrack, and John Lennon's "Grow Old With Me" for the tribute album Instant Karma, and two newly recorded tracks attached to an expanded anniversary edition of Give Up since then, it is unlikely that Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello will ever get together to do another Postal Service album again.
  • The duo reunited in 2013 for a tenth-anniversary tour, for which a concert was filmed as the documentary Everything Will Change, which in turn got its soundtrack released as an album in 2020, including The Postal Service's covers of songs from Beat Happening and Dntel.
• Freestyle/breakbeat/R&B singer Precious only released the 2000 album Big Girls Don't Cry (good luck finding a copy), featuring the singles "Precious Little Fantasy", "Why Can't You See", and "Lollipop", before vanishing without a trace.
• Dance producers Propellerheads released only one album, 1998's Decksanddrumsandrockandroll. The album itself was well-received and it included several popular singles, but for whatever reason they just never made another one.
• "Hey QT" is the only single released by QT (real name Hayden Frances Dunham), a music project from the London label/art collective PC Music. QT was involved in a few other projects including a short film, but never released another song. After a hiatus, Dunham came back to music under another pseudonym, Hyd.
• Another one-single collaboration was "So Deep" by Silvertear, produced by Pascal Schutters, Jonas Steur, and Christophe and Erik from Ian Van Dahl. Best known for its appearance in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
  • The founders of Ian Van Dahl helmed yet another one-off supergroup, One More Angel, in collaboration with former T-Spoon rapper Shalamon "MC Shamrock" Baskin and vocalist Esther Sels, their only release being the 2005 single "Breathe".
• The Smalltown Boys, actually a solo project of songwriter-producer Rod Gammon, only released one single, "Beatski Mix", a Cover Version medley of Bronski Beat's signature songs, including the eponymous "Smalltown Boy".
• Discounting the Product compilation before it, 2018's Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides was the one and only proper studio album by Scottish electropop artist SOPHIE, owed in part to her death in an accident three years later.
• Spacemonkeyz were a short-lived studio team who produced the Gorillaz Remix Album Laika Come Home, credited to Gorillaz vs Spacemonkeyz. They intended to continue as a band in their own right, but the only original song they ever released was "Spacemonkeyz Theme", which appeared as the B-Side to Laika Come Home''s lead single "Lil' Dub Chefin'".
• Sphinx were a one-time supergroup comprised of Roland Armstrong AKA Rollo, the brother of Dido; fellow House Music DJ-producer Rob Dougan (mentioned above); and American R&B/soul singer Sabrina Johnston; releasing the lone single "What Hope Have I" in 1995.
• "Music Sounds Better With You" by Stardust, a one-shot project from Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk fame. It was never intended to have a following single, indeed this "dream team" of French electronic wizards never worked together again.
• Stars on 54, a trio effort between Ultra Nate, Amber, and Jocelyn Enriquez, covered "If You Could Read My Mind" for the 54 soundtrack, and never collaborated again.
• Joey Gardner remixed many '80s and '90s songs, as well as producing for freestyle artists George Lamond, Cynthia, and K7, but released only one solo single, the trance track "Twister" and its B-Side "Aftermath", under the alias Storm Chasers.
• Italian dance project The Tamperer, consisting of producers Mario Fargetta and Alex Farolfi and American singer Maya Days, are mostly known for their successful 1998 single "Feel It". They only released the album "Fabulous" one year later, a couple of singles afterwards, and all members abandoned the project soon after (Maya Days stopped singing altogether).
• The Eurodance/trance duo Trouser Enthusiasts produced countless remixes, but "Sweet Release" was their only original production, after which they disbanded.
• The sole release by the stadium house duo Two Little Boys was "Stylophonia", which utilized voice clips of Stylophone spokesman Rolf Harris.
• Ursula's World, a trance supergroup consisting of Martin Freeland(Man With No Name), Mal Scott, and Dominique Atkins(Grace), produced only the single "I Will Be With You" in 2000. According to Discogs, this was Mal Scott's only musical credit, period.
• "Carte Blanche", plus its B-side "Drafting", was the only original material by Veracocha, a one-off collaboration between Ferry Corsten and Vincent de Moor, although they did at least one remix (Ayla - Ayla).
• Peng Peng (2006) was the only album by German tech-house trio Voom:Voom. They released the Remix Album Mixes a couple years afterwards, which included the previously unreleased track "Deep Star", but that was the last anyone heard from them as a group.
• The originator of the much-covered disco classic "Saturday", Norma Jean Wright is still touring regularly and doing guest spots on other people's records, but 1978's Norma Jean remains her only solo album.
• Happy hardcore artist Z:O.Ë.Ë. released the 1995 single "Tekkno Wonderland"(a Speedy Techno Remake of Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love With You), and nothing else.
• Eiffel 65 tried to milk the success of their most famous hit "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by releasing in 2000 "I Wanna Be", a single attributed to Zorotl, the blue CG alien that appeared in the video for that song and other ones. However, "I Wanna Be" was the last anyone ever heard about him. Ironically, the promotional website is still up.
• Gladiators was an Italian Italo Disco project by Massimo Noé which only released the 1984 single "Quo Vadiz", the opening song for the eponymous Ancient Rome-inspired variety TV show.

Folk

• Connie Converse, a folk Singer-Songwriter who played around New York in the 50s and early 60s, has only one album's worth of songs, How Sad, How Lovely, released in 2009. Since this album was compiled from archival recordings by two fans 35 years after Converse disappeared, never to be seen again, it's iffy to even say that it was released during her lifetime.
• Singer-Songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey released his debut album in 1972, and has never released anything else, even though he's still an active performer with a cult following. Supposedly whenever anyone asks him why he hasn't released another album he says "What was wrong with the first one?" One of the songs on the album was "Muskrat Love" (originally called "Muskrat Candlelight"). Luckily for Ramsey, it was Covered Up and became a big hit, so he can collect royalty money while the rest of the world thinks of this Old Shame as a Captain & Tennille song.

Hip-Hop & Rap

• Freestyle artist Damia (not to be confused with Tamia) only released two singles, "More than a Feeling/Do Your Thang", and "Give It to Me", both in 1998.
• Miami bass duo Duice released only one single, "Dazzey Duks", which charted at #12 on the Hot 100 in 1993. They released no other singles.
• Fort Minor, the hip-hop based Solo Side Project of Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda, only released one album, The Rising Tied in 2005. In 2006, the project went on hiatus which, as of 2015, still hasn't ended.
• "My Boo" was the only song released by Ghost Town DJ's. The supergroup (consisting of Virgo, Greg Street, Rodney Terry, DJ Demp, and Lil Jon. Yes, that one) only existed to provide an entity to credit the song to, as it was created for a compilation album by some of So So Def Recordings' in-house artists.
• KP & Envyi's 1998 hit single "Swing My Way" was their sole release. In the years since, the artists' only musical appearances have been as guest vocalists on a handful of songs.
• Kreayshawn released four mixtapes, but her only album release was Somethin' 'Bout Kreay in 2012. Sales of the album were absolutely dismal, only charting at #112 with sales of 3900 copies. The fact her label decided to release the physical copy exclusively to Hot Topic might have had something to do with it. Since then, she's appeared as a guest rapper on a number of other artists' songs, but there have been practically no talks of another album.
• Scott La Rock, DJ of rap duo Boogie Down Productions, was involved in only one album, Criminal Minded, which was their debut. He was murdered a few months after the album was released. KRS-One, the remaining member, continued Boogie Down Productions without him. Much of the songs made after La Rock's murder, such as "Stop The Violence," had anti-violence messages which contrasted with the proto-gangsta rap lyrics of Criminal Minded, made before La Rock was murdered.
• A hip-hop group called Legacy X recorded exactly one song: "Practice Makes Perfect", an Easter Egg in the 1990s educational game Mario Teaches Typing. Lead vocalist André Egans seems to have had a couple minor credits, and producers Charles Deenen and Gregory R. Allen have done further musical work in video games, but "Practice Makes Perfect" remains the only content under the "Legacy X" name.
• MC Trouble was the first female rapper signed to Motown Records. She released one EP in 1989, Highroller's Girl, and a full album in 1990, Gotta Get a Grip. The latter was a modest success, spawning the minor hit "Make You Mine". She was working on a second album in 1991, but died of an epileptic seizure before she could complete it.
• Obscure rap group Ninja High School only did one album, Young Adults Against Suicide, as well as some singles and extended plays, before dropping off the face of the Earth.
• Pop-rap duo Puck & Natty released the song "Just Wanna Be Your Friend", which was licensed for an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210, appeared on a tie-in album for the series, and was released as a promo single for said compilation, and parted ways before releasing anything else. One half of the duo, Stephan Jenkins, went on to form Third Eye Blind - the other half, Herman Anthony Chunn, did some uncredited co-writing of "Semi-Charmed Life", 3eb's signature song, but otherwise stayed out of the music business since.
• Muskabeatz was the only known album produced by professional skateboarder Chad Muska under the "Muskabeatz" moniker. It was a compilation album made in collaboration with rappers like Ice-T, Biz Markie, KRS-One, and Prodigy of Mobb Deep fame, among others. Three of its songs, "Body Rock", "I'm A Star", and "Verses Of Doom", appeared in the soundtrack for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, roughly four months before the album dropped.

Industrial

• Device, an Industrial Metal Supergroup consisting of Disturbed frontman David Draiman and Filter guitarist Geno Lenardo, was formed during the five year hiatus of the former. They released one Self-Titled Album with their single "Vilify" being their only success on rock radio. Afterwards, the project was shut down and Draiman returned to Disturbed. He has gone on record stating that he has no intention of ever making another Device album.
• Fockewolf, an Industrial/Dark Wave side project/supergroup consisting of Rob Wilhelm of Noxious Emotion and vocalist Severina X Sol, only released one demo cassette EP, Dominus et Deus, and one album, Die Toten Weg, although Severina went on to perform with Cylab and The Break Up. Wilhelm also made a cameo appearance on the former's Satellites album.
  • In addition, Back And To The Left, a Future Pop act founded by Wilhelm and the other former NE members, also only produced one album, 2005's Obsolete, before themselves disbanding the following year.
• How to Destroy Angels have so far only released one full length album, Welcome Oblivion, and two EPs (their self-titled EP and An omen_EP, the latter being something of a preview for Welcome Oblivion), having not been active since their live tour in 2013 (though lead vocalist Mariqueen Maandig has performed HTDA songs with band mate/husband Trent Reznor's main band Nine Inch Nails in concerts as recently as 2018). This most likely stems from the members' other commitments, like Reznor resurrecting Nine Inch Nails (also in 2013), his and Atticus Ross' continued work in scoring, and Reznor and Maandig raising their children.
• When Pure Is Defiled (2003) was the only album by Australian Industrial Metal band Jerk, whose song "Sucked In" was featured in the soundtrack for Need for Speed: Underground and NHL 2004. They disbanded by the end of 2004 for unknown reasons. Several Jerk members have formed another band named Ink in 2006, one that dropped the Industrial sound.
• One could argue MDFMK was a one-off act, but then again, they were basically KMFDM by a different name. Active when KMFDM had officially broken up (and until KMFDM officially got back together), MDFMK (a Sdrawkcab Alias for KMFDM), only released a self-titled album. The group was founded by ex-KMFDM members Sascha Konietzko and Tim Sköld, with Lucia Cifarelli joining later; all three would stick around when they changed their name back to KMFDM, officially reviving it but ending MDFMK's tenure at the same time.^note Sköld would leave shortly thereafter, but that wasn't unusual for KMFDM either.
• The German industrial group Microchip League (MCL) only produced one studio album, Code Numbers, although in 2009, more than two decades later, they released a compilation of previously unreleased tracks, titled Raw Tapes.

Metal

• Hair metal band Alien (not to be confused with the Swedish hard rock band of the same name) only ever released the album "Cosmic Fantasy" in 1984.
• Allyptic was an obscure Nu Metal band in the style of Evanescence who released only one full album, Black Season, before breaking up entirely.
• Why Not? appears to be the only LP from the intriguingly-named UK thrash band Bomb Disneyland, released in 1989.
• Metal supergroup Damageplan only released one album before disbanding following the on-stage murder of guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott in 2004.
• Seminal Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal band Silencer only ever made one album, 2001's Death - Pierce Me. The institutionalisation of vocalist Nattramn shortly after the recording of the album is almost certainly the reason for this.
• Thorr's Hammer was a doom metal band from Washington State whose singer was a teenage exchange student named Runhild Gammelsæter. They were active for six weeks, releasing one cassette called Dommedagsnatt, before the singer returned home to Norway. The rest of the band, Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley, continued as Burning Witch before becoming drone titans Sunn O))).
• The sole discography of influential American Black Metal band Weakling is two rehearsal tapes and 2000's album Dead as Dreams.
• Abacabb was an extremely heavy Deathcore act that only released one album, 2009's Survivalist. Even with a ton of hype behind them and signing to a major label with Sumerian, they didn't seem too interested in being a major act and quietly broke up not too long after.
• Native Construct was a Progressive Metal outfit with only one album to their name, 2015's Quiet World. It was an instant success and lead to some nice tours for them. Native Construct teased a follow up, but the band lost interest in metal and formally announced their indefinite hiatus in 2019.

Pop

• One particular type of Supergroup that counts for this are the ones who record a Charity Motivation Song, with Band Aid ("Do They Know It's Christmas?") as the Ur-Example and USA for Africa ("We Are the World") as the Trope Codifier. The sheer logistics of getting a large group of superstars together and the urgency of whatever cause they assemble for guarantees that they'll be strictly a one-off phenomenon.
• Farrah Abraham's only album is the Outsider Music classic My Teenage Dream Ended. She has since released just two non-album singles: "Blowin" in 2014 and "Jingle Bell Rock" in 2020.
• Besides the Industrial band mentioned above, another band named Device was also a one-album wonder. Formed in the mid-'80s by Holly Knight (who's best known for writing songs including "Love Is A Battlefield" and "Better Be Good To Me"), this Device released a single album, 22B3, before disbanding.
• American-British-Canadian five-piece Girl Group G.R.L. was formed by veteran choreographer Robin Antin with the intention of finding a replacement for The Pussycat Dolls. Unfortunately, they were only able to release their Self-Titled EP in July of 2014. Not long afterwards, member Simone Battle tragically died from an apparent suicide for reasons unknown. They continued as a four-piece for a while, and released the single "Lighthouse" as a tribute to her, but ultimately decided to disband in June 2015.
• Not long after the rock group Shriekback broke up, frontman Carl Marsh started Happyhead, a pop band with strong acid house influences. They released their sole album "Give Happyhead" in 1992; unfortunately by then, grunge had knocked acid house off the charts, so it never really had a chance to make an impact. Happyhead broke up not long after, but Carl Marsh still performs, both as a solo act and with a reformed Shriekback.
• Girl Group Madasun started as a quintet in 1997, but soon after became a trio, which released only one album in 2000 and then disbanded one year later because of poor sales. They're known pretty much only for their hit single "Don't You Worry".
• British Girl Group Neon Jungle were highly anticipated by several reviewers as the next big girl group, following the success of their debut single "Trouble" in 2013. After "Trouble", the group had their biggest hit "Braveheart" before releasing two more singles. Their debut album Welcome to the Jungle ended up being their only one, as RCA Records dropped them when later singles underperformed.
• "Outta Sight", circa 2009, is so far the only single released by New Zealand singer Kelly Rose (not to be confused with others of the same name).
• She Moves, a girl group made up of New York Knicks cheerleaders, released just one album, Breaking All the Rules, in 1997, and were a One-Hit Wonder with the title single.
• Thunderbugs had one hit single ("Friends Forever") and one delayed album (Delicious) released after the band had already broken up.
• Vicious Pink's only album was their self-titled album. They were also a One-Hit Wonder with "Cccant You See?".
• Zygott & The Ghost Chasers, the artists behind the theme tune for the British series The Trap Door, released just that one record. Zygott sung the tune and its B-side is an instrumental called "Ghost Chase", credited to The Ghost Chasers.

Punk

• No Gods, No Managers was the only album by the punk band Choking Victim, which disbanded the same day the album was recorded.
• Egg Hunt were a Minor Threat offshoot who released one single with a B-Side (It was technically a self-titled single, but it's been variously referred to as Me And You, Me And You / We All Fall Down or 2 Songs): Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson spontaneously founded the project when they were visiting England and the owner of a studio invited them to do some recording, and the band name was chosen because the single was recorded over Easter weekend. Plans were made to expand Egg Hunt from a duo to a full band when the two returned to America, but soon after a full band version was put together for rehearsals, Ian started focusing much more on the newly-formed Fugazi. The rest of the full-band incarnation of Egg Hunt replaced him with Mark Haggerty and became Three, who also became a one album band, breaking up a year before their album Dark Days Coming was even released. MacKaye and Nelson would never end up working together directly on any further musical projects.
• The discography of the Glendale-based Pop Punk Girl Group Go Betty Go is limited, with only one studio album (Nothing Is More, 2005), two EPs (Worst Enemy, 2004, and Reboot, 2015) and one single ("C'mon", from the Worst Enemy EP) to their name. They're still active, but they haven't released anything since 2015.
• Pop Punk group Hog released their lone album, Nothing Sacred on Geffen Records in 1996 - record sales were lower than expected, so they were dropped by their label and broke up not long after. Lead guitarist and vocalist Kirk Miller started going by Leroy Miller, released several blues-rock solo albums, and even was a member of Smash Mouth for a few years.
• Minuteflag, a supergroup composed of LA punk legends Minutemen and Black Flag, released one self-titled EP of mostly instrumental tunes. They made a pact to release the collaboration as soon as one of the bands broke up. Sadly, it was released after Minutemen broke up due to the tragic death of leader D. Boon. The EP, released in 1986, remains out of print.
• One Thin Dime, an obscure US punk band, only released two 7" EP's; Quattro in 1990, and Automatic the following year.
• Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. By the time the album came out, the Sex Pistols were already falling apart.
• Welcome to Loserville is the only album by pop-punk band Son of Dork.
• The California Ska Punk band Suburban Rhythm, who were a major influence on subsequent popular groups in the Orange County scene such as Sublime, No Doubt and Reel Big Fish, only had one album, a compilation which was released three years after they broke up.
• Metalcore/Post-Hardcore group Skycamefalling released a handful of EP's, but only had one full-length, 10.21 in 2000.

R&B

• R&B duo Damian Dame is a tragic example. Damian Dame, a duo consisting of "Damian" Broadus and "de Dame" Debra Jean Hurd, released their self-titled debut on LaFace Records in 1991. On June 27, 1994, before the two could start work on a second album, "deah Dame" was killed in a moped accident. Damian would perish from colon cancer exactly two years later.
• Lauryn Hill only released 2 albums, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and MTV Unplugged 2.0, and the latter was a live recording. Only her first album received overall acclaim, and after that album, she had a Creator Breakdown and left the public eye.
• L.A.X. Gurlz released one song, "Forget You", in 2007 before breaking up afterwards and thus vanishing completely. Their debut album failed to surface thanks to the Executive Meddling of Blackground Records.
• Neo-soul group Mini-King released a Self-Titled Album in 1998, with the promotional single "Get It Back Together", but nothing more.

Rock

• UK Garage act 3 Of A Kind's number one single "Babycakes" was their only release ever. Despite its success, they couldn't interest anyone in releasing a follow-up.
• Chris Bell, founding member of 1970s power pop legends Big Star, released one single in his lifetime, "I Am the Cosmos" with "You and Your Sister" as its B-side. Bell was poised to develop a solo career when his life was cut short by a tragic car accident in 1978. The single, along with the work of Big Star, developed a cult following in the 1980s and there was enough demand for a release of a complete discography of Bell's solo work in 1992, also called I Am The Cosmos. The album consists of the aforementioned single along with unreleased songs and demos.
• After breaking out of soft-rock heroes Little River Band, Beeb Birtles & Graeme Goble only did one album as a duo before going back: 1980's ''The Last Romance".
• Grace is the lone studio album by Jeff Buckley before his death. He was recording a second, My Sweetheart The Drunk, but he drowned in the Mississippi River before the recording sessions had even reached the halfway point. The unfinished material did get released as Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk, however.
• Pop-psychedelic band The Buoys, best known for their 1970 One-Hit Wonder song "Timothy" (which implied cannibalism on the part of a trio of trapped miners), built an album around it, but couldn't manage anything further.
• Carole King's band The City released one album, Now That Everything's Been Said (1968), before she decided to focus on a solo career instead; her two collaborators in The City, guitarist Danny Kortchmar and bassist Charles Larkey (who she was in a Creator Couple with at the time) both played on her solo albums.
• The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, a Berkeley, California-based band whose lighthearted music gained them a cult following in the San Francisco music scene of The '60s, managed this feat twice: they recorded the jokingly-title Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band's Greatest Hits in 1968, which proved to be their only album under their own name. Then in 1969 they were hired to give a Fake–Real Turn to a satirical hoax Rolling Stone review of an alleged album by a Supergroup called The Masked Marauaders, combining the talents of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and various Beatles. As it happened, The Masked Marauders' only release was their self-titled album. Then for a trifecta, The Masked Marauders was the only record ever released by Deity Records, a one-off subsidiary of Warner (Bros.) Records created to complete the joke (since the Rolling Stone review listed Deity as the album's label).
• Eric Clapton led two supergroups after the breakup of his band Cream. The first, Blind Faith, released one self-titled album with six songs in it. After Blind Faith fell apart, Clapton led Derek and the Dominos, recording Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Though the album and especially the title track are now considered classics, on its initial release the critical and commercial reaction was moderate at best; a year later, Duane Allman (not an official member of the band but an important contributor to Layla; most notably, he helped to create the famous opening guitar riff from the title track) died in a motorcycle accident, exacerbating Clapton's substance abuse issues, and Derek and the Dominos subsequently dissolved during an attempt to record a second album.
• David & David released their album Boomtown in 1986, which was critically acclaimed and generated the Top 40 hit "Welcome to the Boomtown." The duo split up afterwards, and while they both remained in the music business — David Baerwald went on to a solo career, David Ricketts produced hit albums for Toni Childs and Meredith Brooks, and both Davids played a role in Sheryl Crow's breakthrough album Tuesday Night Music Club — there was never another David & David album.
• A Brooklynite doo-wop group called the Five Sharps recorded only one extremely rare single (the pop standard Stormy Weather backed with their own song Sleepy Cowboy) in 1952.
• Guitar Romantic is the sole album by critically acclaimed Power Pop revivalists The Exploding Hearts. Three-fourths of the band died in a tour van accident a few months after its release, effectively ending the band.
• The Faders, an all-girl British pop-rock band, had a minor hit with "No Sleep Tonight", which was all over the place after its release as a single, and featured in a number of advertisements, films such as The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and She's the Man (both times in soccer scenes, weirdly enough), and in shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Greek, Sugar Rush and Veronica Mars, where the band appeared As Themselves. They broke up in 2006 with only one album, and all have moved on to pursue solo careers.
• Gator Creek was an eclectic 8-piece band founded by jazz veteran Dee Barton, featuring a mix of prolific Hollywood studio musicians and newcomers like a young Kenny Loggins. Their self-titled 1970 album was their only release, but it had two notable songs: "Dirty Boogie", which played over the opening credits of Play Misty for Me^note Barton wrote the score for the film. Clint Eastwood's DJ character also gives a Shout-Out to the band on his radio show, and "Danny's Song", which Loggins would re-record on the first Loggins & Messina album, before getting Covered Up by Anne Murray.
• British Pop Rock band Hepburn, who were high profile enough at one point to get a song featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer disbanded after recording just one album.
• The folk-rock trio Humpy Bong (perhaps most known to history as being the group Tim Staffell left Smile for), only ever released one single: 1970's "Don't You Be Too Long".
• The International Submarine Band released their debut Safe at Home, generally considered the first country-rock album, in 1968. They broke up a few months later after leader Gram Parsons left to join The Byrds.
• After a turbulent career filled with constant recording and re-recording of their debut album, scrapping sessions with famous producers like Mike Hedges, John Leckie and John Porter before settling on Steve Lillywhite, The La's managed to produce one Self-Titled Album before collapsing due to Lee Mavers' insane perfectionism.
• Little Village only released one album, a self-titled effort, in 1992. Even despite a Grammy nomination, the album largely went unnoticed, and bass guitarist Nick Lowe later stated that while he had fun with the band he felt the album was "no good". After a roughly two-year career, Little Village split the same year the album came out.
• The Lover Speaks was an eclectic British Post-Punk band (officially the duo of singer David Freeman and multi-instrumentalist Joseph Hughes, though keyboardist Barry Gilbert also worked with them extensively) who managed to get a deal with A&M Records in 1986, thanks to prominent boostership by Eurythmics member Dave Stewart. They released a Self-Titled Album for a debut, toured with Eurythmics, and scored a minor UK hit with "No More 'I Love You's'", though the album as a whole was very much an Acclaimed Flop. They recorded a follow-up album called The Big Lie but A&M rejected it. They split up shortly after that (with Freeman sustaining a solo career for a while), and The Big Lie has never gotten an official release (it got a self-released limited edition promo pressing in 1997). Oddly, the Eurythmics connection gave them a bit of pop immortality when Annie Lennox recorded a version of "No More 'I Love You's'" on her Cover Album Medusa in 1995 and it became a big international hit (albeit Covered Up immortality).
• One day in December 1956, Carl Perkins was in a recording session at Sun Studios, when fellow labelmates Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis, popped in and kicked off an impromptu jam session. The songs they recorded finally saw release 25 years later, under the press-dubbed name "Million Dollar Quartet". The artists involved never recorded together again outside of Perkins touring with Cash for a while (he played lead guitar on "A Boy Named Sue").
• 1970s power-pop trio The Nerves released one four-song EP and broke up shortly after. Blondie released their own cover version of "Hanging on the Telephone," and two of the members founded the Plimsouls, scoring an 80s hit with "A Million Miles Away."
• The 1973 hit single "She (Didn't Even Remember My Name)" was recorded by a group of session musicians under the name Osmosis, for whom it was their only work outside their usual gigs.
  • Similarly, the 1970 songs "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" (Edison Lighthouse) & "Gimme Dat Ding" (Pipkins) were both studio bands/lip-syncers on Top of the Pops^note  although their shared lead singer doesn't count, because in addition to these two, he also sang Leapy Lee's hit "Little Arrows" .
• Eclectic country rock band Quacky Duck & His Barnyard Friends released their only album, Media Push, in 1974. They had an interesting lineup, though: Tony Bennett's two sons (Danny and Daegal); David Mansfield, who later worked with Bob Dylan and Bruce Hornsby and scored numerous films; and Gordon Javna, who went on to write the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader books.
• Quill, the Self-Titled Album from 1970 by the eclectic Progressive Rock band from Boston, was their only album, but they still entered rock history because they played at Woodstock the year before (and the performance was what got them their recording contract).
• Skip Spence, whose album Oar was released in 1969. He was a prominent member of the psychedelic band Moby Grape who turned out to be the American equivalent of Syd Barrett. He weirded out his bandmates by indulging in LSD and attacking someone with a fire axe. He got institutionalized, recorded Oar, and dropped out of the public life until his death in 1999, though he occasionally reunited with Moby Grape and recorded a single for the soundtrack to The X-Files.
• Team Sleep, an experimental rock band formed by Deftones frontman Chino Moreno only released one Self-Titled Album in 2005, before going on an indefinite hiatus due to Chino's commitment to his main band.
• To My Surprise, an experimental rock side project of Slipknot founder Shawn Crahan, only released one Self-Titled Album in 2003 before disbanding three years later.
• Sixties experimental rock band The United States of America broke up after their self-titled debut, which sold poorly but was later Vindicated by History.
  • Band leader Joseph Byrd released a Spiritual Successor follow-up called The American Metaphysical Circus, credited to Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies. That grouping also lasted for just one album, and Byrd's future works were instrumental albums and film scores.
• The Psychedelic Rock band Uriel only recorded and released one album—a self-titled album that was named while the band was using an alias, no less! The album, Arzachel, was released in 1969 and became a long sought-after collector's item for psychedelica enthusiasts; its sole (legal) re-release in 2007 sold out almost immediately.
• Colossal Youth was the sole album release by influential minimalist Post-Punk trio Young Marble Giants.

World Music

• Aylar is a Norwegian (but Iranian-born) former porn star, glamour model and Big Brother contestant who only released the single "Boys Boys Boys" in 2006, itself a cover of Italian popstar Sabrina Salerno's "Boys (Summertime Love)". She later was featured in two dance songs before quitting music to pursue an acting career.
  • One of these two songs was performed by Youssef, who doesn't have any other credit whatsoever.
• Fancy Face Groovy Name were a Japanese duo who only ever released one song on a compilation album, "Love Is Ye-Ye (Looking For My Idol)". It would probably be forgotten today but for the fact that one half of the duo was Kahimi Karie, who went on to become one of J-pop's most prolific and successful artists.
• Italian singer Kiki Gaida only ever released the single "Isole Vergini" and its English B-side "Virginal Mystery" before vanishing without a trace.
• Japanese singers Asuka Hinoi and Hikaru Koyama, of Hinoi Team fame, started their career in the music business as part of a trio called LOVE & PEACE when they were only 11 and 10. They released a single called "Drifter", which became the theme for the movie Dodge Go Go! (where the third member of the band played a part), and then disbanded.
• Brazilian satirical band Mamonas Assassinas recorded only one album (which is one of the best-selling of all time in the country, mind you) before dying in a plane crash.
• Brian Jones, before being fired from his band, went to Morocco to make a field recording of the Master Musicians of Joujouka at the Rites of Pan Festival. The subsequent recording, Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka (1971), was released a few years after his mysterious death. It is the closest thing to a Jones solo project (though he was only involved as sound recorder and album engineer), and the album remains influential in the World Music genre.
• Chiaki Kuriyama, the Japanese actress mostly known as Gogo Yubari from Kill Bill, in 2010 sang "Ryusei no Namida", the opening for Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. This led to her recording an album, Circus, the following year. However this was the beginning and end of her singing career: after a re-release of the same album in 2012 and a couple singles that failed to chart anywhere, Kuriyama left the music business and returned to her acting work.
• I Monelli Spaziali's only credit is the Italian opening for the old robot anime God Sigma. They weren't even an actual duo but rather two of the Italian voice actors for the anime.
• Italian band S.C.O.R.T.A. only released the novelty Italo Disco song "Pertini Dance" (1984), dedicated to then-president Sandro Pertini, in both an English and an Italian version, then they were never heard of again.
• S.K.I.N. was a Japanese supergroup made by big names in Visual Kei (Yoshiki, Gackt, Miyavi and Sugizo) who was supposed to set not only the Asian, but also the Western charts on fire. Their 2007 performance at the Long Beach Anime Expo was dubbed "The Japanese Concert of the Century"... too bad that was their first, last and only time together. Every few years some of them speak about the possibility of new material from S.K.I.N., but nothing ever materialized after that concert.
  • In November 2022 Yoshiki founded another supergroup, The Last Rockstars, with almost the same lineup but with Hyde taking Gackt's place. Time will tell if this collaboration manages to last.
• Bud Spencer was known as an actor but he actually did a lot of things in his life, from Olympic swimmer to airline pilot, patent holder and also dabbled a bit in music. However he only released an album called "Futtetenne" late in his life, sung mostly in the Neapolitan language.
  • At the beginning of his career he also released a lone single under his real name, Carlo Pedersoli. The songs from the single were then included in the aforementioned "Futtetenne".
• After leaving f(x), Korean actress and singer Sulli only released the three-song EP Goblin in 2019 before taking her own life in October of that year.
• Maimi Tanaka, an employee of Don Quijote supermarket, has produced the song "Miracle Shopping" for the company she's working for, which later on becomes the company's theme song, and that's the only song she has ever produced.
• Mu Lilium was an extremely short-lived Japanese girl rock band that appears to only have released one song in 2019 and nothing else.
• Luca & Paolo are a duo of Italian comedians, mostly known for the Caméra Café remake. They only released under their names "Buonasera dottore", the cover of an Italian success from the 1960s they recorded for the commercial of a phone company.
  • A few years before, they had another lone release under the pseudonym Mimmo Amerelli: "Alla consolle": a novelty song parodying disposable dance music hits, with "Mimmo Amerelli" being the fake DJ who sang it, himself one of their comedy characters.

Other Genres

• American Surf Rock band The Avalanches (no relation to the Australian electronic group, but were named after the surf band) released only one album, Ski Surfin' with the Avalanches, in 1963. That group was one of those "studio-only" bands made up of professional session musicians that were prolific in the 1960's.
• TV personality and gossip queen Rona Barrett recorded the album Miss Rona Sings Hollywood's Greatest Hits in 1974, in which she sings classic songs from The Golden Age of Hollywood, prefaced by spoken intros talking about them. It pretty much defines the concept of the Vanity Project perfectly, right down to being released on a label called Miss Rona Records ("a division of Miss Rona Enterprises, Inc."—alas, it was a One Album Record Label).
• The origins of Outsider Music performer Y. Bhekhirst are shrouded in mystery (he's possibly a native of Peru who lived in the New York area and recorded under a Stage Name) but only one album, Hot in the Airport (consisting of a variety of disjointed, minimalist songs sung in a thick accent), was ever released by him, and even then it was self-released and not really available commercially. There are indications that he recorded many songs as he copyrighted a lot (under a variety of names), but it has yet to be heard and remains so reclusive nobody knows what he looks like.
• Cult Midwest Emo band Cap'n Jazz only released one full length LP Shmap'n Shmazz, along with a scattering amount of compilation appearances and 2 EPs, before splitting up right after the release of the LP in 1995. Their entire discography, minus a single compilation appearance known as "Naive", were collected into a single compilation Analphabetapolothology in 1998.
  • This is usually typical of 90s Emo bands. One of the side project of Cap'n Jazz, cult Indie Rock group American Football, also only released a single LP, along with an EP, both self-titled. Though American Football managed to last a bit longer than Cap'n Jazz, breaking up in a few years after the release of their LP without releasing a follow-up. American Football later reunited and released their second, also self-titled, album.
• Chagall Guevara was a band formed by several veterans of the early Christian alternative music scene (including Steve Taylor) in an attempt to break through to the not-quite-as-limiting mainstream secular alt-rock world. The band's 1991 self-titled album failed to catch on with alternative rock fans or radio, despite being critically acclaimed. It has, at best, become a minor cult item with fans of early 90's alternative rock. However, the album became fairly popular with Christian rock fans despite the fact that there were very few things that could be considered overtly Christian on the album, nor was the CCM market ever planned to be the target audience - its popularity likely having to do with the backgrounds of the performers (particularly the wildly successful Taylor). The group broke up in 1993 without making another album.
• Surf Rock group Gene Gray and the Stingerays only released one single in 1963: "Surf Bunny"/"Surfer's Mood". It was not even intended to be released (the tape was made for Gray's mother who wanted a recording of his son's playing), but it ended up in the hands of Eddie Davis, owner of the tiny Linda Records, who released it on his label and later leased it to Dot Records for national distribution.
• Jazz drummer Don Lamond, while a prolific sideman, only recorded one album as leader: Off Beat Percussion in 1962, credited to "Don Lamond and his Orchestra".
• Runforyerlife, a third-wave ska band from Chicago, only released one album in 1999 before falling off the face of the earth.
• Isles & Glaciers was a Post-Hardcore Super Group that only released one album, The Hearts of Lonely People from 2010. Time commitments with everyone's main acts and everyone having Creative Differences with Jonny Craig led to Isles & Glaciers remaining as a one off.

Producers & Songwriters

• While Casey Beathard is a very popular Country Music songwriter, his only Record Producer credit is the single "I Wanna Feel Something" from Trace Adkins' Dangerous Man album.
• Some tracks on Jake Owen's 2016 album American Love were produced by his road band guitarist Lukas Bracewell, who has no other credits whatsoever.
• Obscure 90s country music singer Daron Norwood had an unknown person named Jeff Carlton produce both of his albums, albeit in collaboration with more famous producers: James Stroud on the first, and Richard Landis on the second. Carlton also produced Curtis Wright's debut album Slick Hick, but it was never released.
  • Speaking of Norwood, his 1995 single "Bad Dog, No Biscuit" was written by one Richard Ferrell, who has no other entries on BMI. (He is not to be confused with Rick Ferrell, a more prolific songwriter.)
• Pam Tillis' debut album Above and Beyond the Doll of Cutey is the only production credit for Dixie Hills Productions, although two individual members (session musicians Craig Krampf and Josh Leo) have several other production credits as solo producers.
• Brooks & Dunn's 1994 single "I'll Never Forgive My Heart" is the only writing credit for duo member Ronnie Dunn's wife, Janine.
• Singer-songwriter Wyatt Easterling has had a few scattered credits writing and playing guitar on others' albums, but his only production credit was four tracks on John Michael Montgomery's 1992 debut Life's a Dance.
• Ty England's 1995 debut single "Should've Asked Her Faster" was the only writing credit for Joe "Klem" Klimek, otherwise known as a saxophonist and sound engineer for the rock band NRBQ.
• A banker named Stuart Gorrell wrote the lyrics for his old college buddy Hoagy Carmichael's song "Georgia on My Mind". It was his only songwriting credit. The royalty money Gorrell earned for "Georgia" was enough to put his daughter through college.
• The Oak Ridge Boys' "Gonna Take a Lot of River" was not the only song written by John Kurhajetz (ASCAP lists four other works), but it was the only one anyone recorded.
• Lonestar's 2001 single "Tell Her" was co-written by someone named "Kwesi B." (real name: Mark McClendon), who has only one other entry in ASCAP's database which was apparently not recorded by anyone (or if they did, it's so obscure that not even Google can find it).
• Kelsea Ballerini's first two albums (The First Time and Unapologetically) were produced by Jason Massey and Forest Glen Whitehead, neither of whom has any other production credits.
• Songwriter-producer Ray Methvin has only one notable credit in either field: as a songwriter, his only single cut was "Gravitational Pull" by Chris LeDoux, and as a producer, his only album was Jenny Simpson's 1998 debut (co-produced by Garth Fundis).
• While songwriter/producer Eric Pittarelli had a couple other obscure cuts, his only production credit was Bomshel's 2006 EP Bomshel Stomp. The track "19 and Crazy" on Bomshel's Fight Like a Girl is likewise the only production credit to date for Nashville songwriters Mark Irwin and Josh Kear.
• Wilbur C. Rimes produced the first few albums of his daughter, LeAnn Rimes, but had exactly one other production credit: Steve Holy's 2000 debut Blue Moon. Holy's second and third albums, Brand New Girlfriend and Love Don't Run, are also the only production credits for songwriter Lee Thomas Miller (outside a few non-album singles by both him and Amy Dalley).
• Andy Griggs' debut album You Won't Ever Be Lonely is the only production credit for J. Gary Smith, who co-produced with David Malloy.

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