Artist	Song
Los del Río	Macarena
from Fiesta Macarena (1996)
Hanson	MMMBop
from Best of Hanson: 20th Century Masters (2006)
Right Said Fred	I'm Too Sexy
from Up (2007)
Blind Melon	No Rain
from Blind Melon (1992)
The Verve	Bitter Sweet Symphony
from Urban Hymns (1997)
Sir Mix-A-Lot	Baby Got Back
from Mack Daddy (2007)
EMF	Unbelieveable
from Schubert Dip (1998)
Tag Team	Whoomp! (There It Is) [Radio Edit]
from Whoomp! There It Is - EP (1993)
The Cardigans	Lovefool
from First Band on the Moon (1996)
House of Pain	Jump Around
from Rhino Hi-Five - House of Pain - EP (2006)
Us3	Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
from Hand On The Torch (1993)
Billy Ray Cyrus	Achy Breaky Heart
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Billy Ray Cyrus (2003)
Divinyls	I Touch Myself
from Divinyls (1992)
Joan Osborne	One of Us
from Relish (1995)
Meredith Brooks	Bitch
from Blurring The Edges (1997)
Lou Bega	Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)
from A Little Bit of Mambo (1999)
New Radicals	You Get What You Give
from Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too (1998)
The Proclaimers	I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
from Sunshine On Leith (2006)
Tom Cochrane	Life Is a Highway
from Mad Mad World (1991)
Crash Test Dummies	Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
from God Shuffled His Feet (1993)
Marc Cohn	Walking In Memphis
from Rhino Hi-Five: Marc Cohn - EP (2005)
Wreckx-N-Effect	Rump Shaker
from Boom Box Flava (2002)
Spin Doctors	Two Princes
from Pocket Full of Kryptonite (1991)

Comment:

It's the decade's minutiae that captivate us; everybody remembers Clinton being impeached, but the [i]Trivial Pursuit[/i] winner remembers the last guy impeached [i]before[/i] him. And what pursuit could be more trivial — or more fun — than the tracking the Pop chart history of those flash-bulb artists who rocketed up the charts . . . and continued right off them into the ether? The first, and most obvious, type of one-hit wonder recording is the novelty song. Everyone knew from Day One that "Macarena" was the last we'd ever hear of Los Del Rio. Or that Right Said Fred was not only too sexy for his shirt, but also too sexy for another hit.

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