100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the ’80s

by Rahsheeda Ali 5/2/2013

VH1 counted down the 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the ’80s – everything from new wave to hip-hop, novelty hits by Yello and Bruce Willis, and pop classics by Rockwell and Toni Basil.

Did your favorites make the cut?

“You’re A Friend Of Mine” – Clarence Clemons (and Jackson Browne)

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Album: Hero

Year: 1985
“Rock On” – Michael Damian

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Album: Where Do We Go From Here

Year: 1989
“Pac-Man Fever” – Buckner & Garcia

Album: Pac-Man Fever

Year: 1981
“Baby I Love Your Way / Freebird” – Will To Power

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Album: Will to Power

Year: 1988
“Tuff Enuff” – The Fabulous Thunderbirds

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Album: Tuff Enuff

Year: 1986
“Beds are Burning” – Midnight Oil

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Album: Diesel and Dust

Year: 1987
“Lean On Me” – Club Nouveau

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Album: Life, Love & Pain

Year: 1987
“The Ballad of Jayne” – L.A. Guns

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Album: Cocked & Loaded

Year: 1989
“Far From Over” – Frank Stallone

Album: Staying Alive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Year: 1983
“Friends And Lovers” – Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson

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Album: Carl Anderson and Gloria Loring

Year: 1986
“Love Plus One” – Haircut 100

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Album: Pelican West

Year: 1982
“Rappin’ Rodney” – Rodney Dangerfield

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Album: Rappin’ Rodney

Year: 1982
“Wouldn’t it Be Good” – Nik Kershaw

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Album: Human Racing

Year: 1984
“Edge Of A Broken Heart” – Vixen

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Album: Vixen

Year: 1988
“Forget Me Nots” – Patrice Rushen

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Album: Straight From the Heart

Year: 1982
“Tomorrow People” – Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers

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Album: Conscious People

Year: 1988
“Under The Milky Way” – The Church

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Album: Starfish

Year: 1988
“Boom Boom Boom Let’s Go Back to My Room” – Paul Lekakis

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Album: Tattoo It

Year: 1987
“Lunatic Fringe” – Red Rider

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Album: As Far As Siam

Year: 1981
“Johnny Are You Queer?” – Josie Cotton

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Album: Convertible Music

Year: 1982
“Party All The Time” – Eddie Murphy

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Album: How Could It Be

Year: 1985
“Black Velvet” – Alannah Myles

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Album: Alannah Myles

Year: 1989
“Fantasy” – Aldo Nova

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Album: Aldo Nova

Year: 1981
“Tenderness” – General Public

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Album: All the Rage

Year: 1984
“Supersonic” – J.J. Fad

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Album: Supersonic

Year: 1988
“Key Largo” – Bertie Higgins

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Album: Just Another Day in Paradise

Year: 1982
“What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)” – Information Society

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Album: Information Society

Year: 1988
“19?” – Paul Hardcastle

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Album: Paul Hardcastle

Year: 1985
“Breakout” – Swing Out Sister

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Album: It’s Better to Travel

Year: 1986
“All I Need” – Jack Wagner

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Album: All I Need

Year: 1984
“Axel F” – Harold Faltermeyer

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Album: Beverly Hills Cop: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack

Year: 1985
“Heart And Soul” – T’Pau

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Album: Bridge of Spies

Year: 1987
“Major Tom” – Peter Schilling

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Album: Error In the System

Year: 1983
“Toy Soldiers” – Martika

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Album: Martika

Year: 1989
“Angel Eyes” – The Jeff Healey Band

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Album: See the Light

Year: 1989
“I Don’t Like Mondays” – The Boomtown Rats

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Album: The Fine Art of Surfacing

Year: 1979
“Steal Away” – Robbie Dupree

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Album: Robbie Dupree

Year: 1980
“The Rain” – Oran “Juice” Jones

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Album: Juice

Year: 1986
“Dear God” – XTC

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Album: Skylarking

Year: 1987
“Da Butt” – E.U.

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Album: School Daze: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Year: 1988
“I Can’t Wait” – Nu Shooz

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Album: Poolside

Year: 1986
“Your Love” – The Outfield

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Album: Play Deep

Year: 1985
“Heartbeat” – Don Johnson

Album: Heartbeat

Year: 1986
“We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off” – Jermaine Stewart

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Album: Frantic Romance

Year: 1986
“Voices Carry” – Til Tuesday

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Album: Voices Carry

Year: 1985
“Just Got Paid” – Johnny Kemp

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Album: Secrets of Flying

Year: 1988
“Lady in Red” – Chris DeBurgh

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Album: Into the Light

Year: 1986
“Puttin’ On the Ritz” – Taco

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Album: After Eight

Year: 1983
“In My House” – Mary Jane Girls

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Album: Only Four You

Year: 1985
“Der Kommissar” – After the Fire

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Album: ATF

Year: 1982
“Buffalo Stance” – Neneh Cherry

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Album: Raw Like Sushi

Year: 1988
“Easy Lover” – Philip Bailey and Phil Collins

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Album: Chinese Wall

Year: 1984
“Oh Yeah” – Yello

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Album: Stella

Year: 1985
“Catch Me I’m Falling” – Pretty Poison

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Album: Catch Me I’m Falling

Year: 1987
“Keep Your Hands To Yourself” – The Georgia Satellites

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Album: Georgia Satellites

Year: 1986
“C’est La Vie” – Robbie Nevil

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Album: Robbie Nevil

Year: 1986
“Mexican Radio” – Wall of Voodoo

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Album: Call of the West

Year: 1983
“Let the Music Play” – Shannon

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Album: Let the Music Play

Year: 1983
“The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” – Timbuk 3

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Album: Greetings from Timbuk 3

Year: 1986
“At This Moment” – Billy Vera

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Album: Billy and the Beaters

Year: 1981
“Video Killed the Radio Star” – The Buggles

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Album: The Age of Plastic

Year: 1979
“Break My Stride” – Matthew Wilder

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Album: I Don’t Speak the Language

Year: 1983
“Respect Yourself” – Bruce Willis

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Album: The Return of Bruno

Year: 1987
“Funkytown” – Lipps, Inc.

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Album: Mouth to Mouth

Year: 1980
“It’s Raining Men” – The Weather Girls

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Album: Success

Year: 1982
“Genius of Love” – Tom Tom Club

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Album: Tom Tom Club

Year: 1981
“I Know What Boys Like” – The Waitresses

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Album: Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?

Year: 1982
“Missing You” – John Waite

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Album: No Brakes

Year: 1984
“Harden My Heart” – Quarterflash

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Album: Quarterflash

Year: 1981
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” – Bobby McFerrin

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Album: Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Year: 1988
“Turning Japanese” – The Vapors

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Album: New Clear Days

Year: 1980
“Our House” – Madness

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Album: The Rise & Fall

Year: 1982
“St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion)” – John Parr

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Album: St. Elmo’s Fire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Year: 1985
“Two of Hearts” – Stacey Q

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Album: Better Than Heaven

Year: 1986
“I Just Died In Your Arms” – Cutting Crew

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Album: Broadcast

Year: 1986
“Pass the Dutchie” – Musical Youth

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Album: The Youth of Today

Year: 1982
“What I Am” – Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

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Album: Shooting Rubberbands At the Stars

Year: 1988
“Electric Avenue” – Eddy Grant

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Album: Killer On the Rampage

Year: 1982
“Maniac” – Michael Sembello

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Album: Bossa Nova Hotel

Year: 1983
“We’re Not Gonna Take It” – Twisted Sister

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Album: Stay Hungry

Year: 1984
“Somebody’s Watching Me” – Rockwell

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Album: Somebody’s Watching Me

Year: 1984
“You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” – Dead or Alive

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Album: Youthquake

Year: 1985
“It Takes Two” – Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock

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Album: It Takes Two

Year: 1988
“The Safety Dance” – Men Without Hats

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Album: Rhythm of Youth

Year: 1983
“99 Luftballons” – Nena

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Album: Nena

Year: 1983
“Whip It” – Devo

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Album: Freedom of Choice

Year: 1980
“In A Big Country” – Big Country

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Album: The Crossing

Year: 1983
“She Blinded Me With Science” – Thomas Dolby

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Album: The Golden Age of Wireless

Year: 1982
“Obsession” – Animotion

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Album: Animotion

Year: 1984
“Relax” – Frankie Goes to Hollywood

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Album: Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Year: 1983
“Too Shy” – Kajagoogoo

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Album: White Feathers

Year: 1983
“I Want Candy” – Bow Wow Wow

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Album: Last of the Mohicans

Year: 1982
“I Melt With You” – Modern English

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Album: After the Snow

Year: 1982
“Mickey” – Toni Basil

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Album: Word of Mouth

Year: 1982
“Tainted Love” – Soft Cell

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Album: Non-stop Erotic Cabaret

Year: 1982
“867-5309 / Jenny” – Tommy Tutone

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Album: Tommy Tutone 2

Year: 1981
“Take On Me” – A-Ha

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Album: Hunting High and Low

Year: 1985
“I Ran (So Far Away)” – A Flock of Seagulls

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Album: A Flock of Seagulls

Year: 1982
“Come on Eileen” – Dexy’s Midnight Runners

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Album: Too-Rye Ay

Year: 1982