Single hit artists are the luckiest people. They have a single song and for years this song/video keeps printing. Some examples:

Gangsta’s Paradise - Coolio. Man currently has 17m plays/mo on Spotify owing to just this track. With the video 1.7B views on YouTube

https://open.spotify.com/track/1DIXPcTDzTj8ZMHt3PDt8p?si=vqpVXJX0QmidD6JoV12DvQ

Gangnam Style - PSY. I’m sure everyone know this lol. 5.5B views on YouTube from this track alone.

(Will update this list as I remember more people/songs. I’ve seen a lot of artists with this MO)

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I kinda think this view is the YouTube/TikTok generation view. Whereas most 1-hit wonders were artists with dreams of success and might happily trade in some of the money off a one-hit wonder to have their whole body of work appreciated. Just a gut feeling

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Good counterpoint you made already here though https://farcaster.xyz/complexlity/0x4296da36