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The 25 Biggest One Hit Wonders of the 21st Century
One Hit Wonders: The top 25 songs of the 21st century that fit into this category.
“It took 10 different versions before we finally came to what you hear on the radio now, where we decided to add a trumpet for the main bridge part, which I think was one of our best decisions on the song,” Ryan Merchant, half of the Los Angeles duo Capital Cities, told Billboard. The Brooklyn DJ released this EDM track with a beat drop for the ages on a free website with little fanfare in summer 2012, but by early the next year, skydivers, underwater stormtroopers, newscasters, Power Rangers, Fat Joe, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and some 100,000 others (often in helmets or masks) were performing its wild, crowd-sourced dance. One of the most smolderingly downbeat one-hit wonders ever, this tribute to a fallen friend arrived in August 2020, a bleak and confusing pandemic-lockdown period that Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley described as a “head f—k.” “You look so broken when you cry,” he sings.
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