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Top 10 One Hit Wonders for Funk, Soul, and R&B

  Recently (By recently, I mean three months ago), I listened to SiriusXM’s list of the top 100 one-hit wonders, and it made me realize how bad some one-hit wonders are. Memorable is not always the same as good. At the time, I made my own list of the top one-hit wonders. One hundred songs sounded hard, so I decided to divide it into 10 genres with 10 songs each plus some honorable mentions. Over the course of two weeks, I made my list and have updated multiple times after I remember the song exists. If there is more interest in one-hit wonders, check out YouTuber Todd in the Shadows’ series One-Hit Wonderland . Qualifications: Crack the US Billboard Top 40 one time. There are some exceptions if the song is well-remembered. We will allow some two-hit wonders if the second hit did not peak higher than 20 and has been forgotten. The first list I made was the hardest. This was originally supposed to be just a list of R&B songs, but R&B is not a genre with many one-hit wonde...