List Of 2000s One-hit Wonders In The United States
This is a list of one-hit wonders in the United States whose one hit came out in the 2000s (decade).
This list contains artists who reached the top 40 of the U.S. pop chart (the Billboard Hot 100) with just one single. A one year lag period is also observed.
Artists in italics have only one Top 40 hit, but either
- had other songs chart on genre-specific charts
- have had success and influence within their genre or the annals of popular music and/or
- a long-lasting and devoted cult following
- wider success in other fields of the music industry
- an American act who have had wider success in other countries
- are a non-American act who have had wider success in their homeland
- are a supergroup made up of artists who were successful and influential in other bands or as solo artists.
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