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Source: ONE News
Billboard has named Daniel Powter's 2006 hit Bad Day the biggest one hit wonder of the noughties.
Powter topped the US Billboard charts for 5 weeks in 2006, hitting such heady heights he even performed on American Idol. The song was a worldwide hit reaching number 7 in the NZ charts, number 3 in Australia and number 2 in the UK.
Alas for Powter he took two years off and has not been seen in the Billboard top 100 since.
Coming in second in the list was the Terror Squad's Lean Back, which despite giving people in clubs a new dance move didn't do much more for the group.
Tattoed pop group (Billboard called them a rock group but we're not so sure of that label) Crazy Town, hit the top of the charts with Butterfly in March 2001 but in Billboard's countdown they're number 3. They hit number 2 in NZ and number 1 in Norway, Finland and Germany. Sadly we've not heard anything from them in the charts since.
A surprise to folks on this side of the world might be James Blunt's place at number 6 on the list.
The Brits ear-bleed inducing (sorry editorialising I know)
You're Beautiful was as big a hit in the US as it was everywhere
else, hitting the top spot in 2006. But Blunt fans in the US didn't
have big enough numbers and the best he's done in the Billboard
charts since is 66. Good reason to move to the States? Maybe.
Billboard top ten one hit wonders
Can't remember those one hit wonders? Here's the top 10 videos to
refresh your memory. Watch if you dare...
1. Daniel Powter - Bad Day
2. Terror Squad - Lean Back
3. Crazy Town - Butterfly
4. MIMS - This Is Why I'm Hot
5. D4L - Laffy Taffy
Sorry can't embed this one so you'll have to go to YouTube for it
6. James Blunt - You're Beautiful
7. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
8. Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Syle (Oops!)
9. Bo Bice - Inside Your Heaven
10. Dream - He Loves U Not
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