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)
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Hero
Year: 1985
“Rock On” – Michael Damian
Embedded from www.youtube.com.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
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Will to Power
Year: 1988
“Tuff Enuff” – The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Tuff Enuff
Year: 1986
“Beds are Burning” – Midnight Oil
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Diesel and Dust
Year: 1987
“Lean On Me” – Club Nouveau
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Life, Love & Pain
Year: 1987
“The Ballad of Jayne” – L.A. Guns
Embedded from www.youtube.com.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
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Carl Anderson and Gloria Loring
Year: 1986
“Love Plus One” – Haircut 100
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Pelican West
Year: 1982
“Rappin’ Rodney” – Rodney Dangerfield
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Rappin’ Rodney
Year: 1982
“Wouldn’t it Be Good” – Nik Kershaw
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Human Racing
Year: 1984
“Edge Of A Broken Heart” – Vixen
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Vixen
Year: 1988
“Forget Me Nots” – Patrice Rushen
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Straight From the Heart
Year: 1982
“Tomorrow People” – Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Conscious People
Year: 1988
“Under The Milky Way” – The Church
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Starfish
Year: 1988
“Boom Boom Boom Let’s Go Back to My Room” – Paul Lekakis
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Tattoo It
Year: 1987
“Lunatic Fringe” – Red Rider
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: As Far As Siam
Year: 1981
“Johnny Are You Queer?” – Josie Cotton
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Convertible Music
Year: 1982
“Party All The Time” – Eddie Murphy
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: How Could It Be
Year: 1985
“Black Velvet” – Alannah Myles
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Alannah Myles
Year: 1989
“Fantasy” – Aldo Nova
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Aldo Nova
Year: 1981
“Tenderness” – General Public
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: All the Rage
Year: 1984
“Supersonic” – J.J. Fad
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Supersonic
Year: 1988
“Key Largo” – Bertie Higgins
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Just Another Day in Paradise
Year: 1982
“What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)” – Information Society
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Information Society
Year: 1988
“19?” – Paul Hardcastle
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Paul Hardcastle
Year: 1985
“Breakout” – Swing Out Sister
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: It’s Better to Travel
Year: 1986
“All I Need” – Jack Wagner
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: All I Need
Year: 1984
“Axel F” – Harold Faltermeyer
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Beverly Hills Cop: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 1985
“Heart And Soul” – T’Pau
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Bridge of Spies
Year: 1987
“Major Tom” – Peter Schilling
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Error In the System
Year: 1983
“Toy Soldiers” – Martika
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Martika
Year: 1989
“Angel Eyes” – The Jeff Healey Band
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: See the Light
Year: 1989
“I Don’t Like Mondays” – The Boomtown Rats
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: The Fine Art of Surfacing
Year: 1979
“Steal Away” – Robbie Dupree
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Robbie Dupree
Year: 1980
“The Rain” – Oran “Juice” Jones
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Juice
Year: 1986
“Dear God” – XTC
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Skylarking
Year: 1987
“Da Butt” – E.U.
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: School Daze: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 1988
“I Can’t Wait” – Nu Shooz
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Poolside
Year: 1986
“Your Love” – The Outfield
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Play Deep
Year: 1985
“Heartbeat” – Don Johnson
Album: Heartbeat
Year: 1986
“We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off” – Jermaine Stewart
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Frantic Romance
Year: 1986
“Voices Carry” – Til Tuesday
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Voices Carry
Year: 1985
“Just Got Paid” – Johnny Kemp
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Secrets of Flying
Year: 1988
“Lady in Red” – Chris DeBurgh
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Into the Light
Year: 1986
“Puttin’ On the Ritz” – Taco
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: After Eight
Year: 1983
“In My House” – Mary Jane Girls
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Only Four You
Year: 1985
“Der Kommissar” – After the Fire
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: ATF
Year: 1982
“Buffalo Stance” – Neneh Cherry
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Raw Like Sushi
Year: 1988
“Easy Lover” – Philip Bailey and Phil Collins
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Chinese Wall
Year: 1984
“Oh Yeah” – Yello
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Stella
Year: 1985
“Catch Me I’m Falling” – Pretty Poison
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Catch Me I’m Falling
Year: 1987
“Keep Your Hands To Yourself” – The Georgia Satellites
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Georgia Satellites
Year: 1986
“C’est La Vie” – Robbie Nevil
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Robbie Nevil
Year: 1986
“Mexican Radio” – Wall of Voodoo
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Call of the West
Year: 1983
“Let the Music Play” – Shannon
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Let the Music Play
Year: 1983
“The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” – Timbuk 3
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Greetings from Timbuk 3
Year: 1986
“At This Moment” – Billy Vera
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Billy and the Beaters
Year: 1981
“Video Killed the Radio Star” – The Buggles
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: The Age of Plastic
Year: 1979
“Break My Stride” – Matthew Wilder
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: I Don’t Speak the Language
Year: 1983
“Respect Yourself” – Bruce Willis
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: The Return of Bruno
Year: 1987
“Funkytown” – Lipps, Inc.
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Mouth to Mouth
Year: 1980
“It’s Raining Men” – The Weather Girls
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Success
Year: 1982
“Genius of Love” – Tom Tom Club
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Tom Tom Club
Year: 1981
“I Know What Boys Like” – The Waitresses
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?
Year: 1982
“Missing You” – John Waite
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: No Brakes
Year: 1984
“Harden My Heart” – Quarterflash
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Quarterflash
Year: 1981
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” – Bobby McFerrin
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Year: 1988
“Turning Japanese” – The Vapors
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: New Clear Days
Year: 1980
“Our House” – Madness
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: The Rise & Fall
Year: 1982
“St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion)” – John Parr
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: St. Elmo’s Fire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 1985
“Two of Hearts” – Stacey Q
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Better Than Heaven
Year: 1986
“I Just Died In Your Arms” – Cutting Crew
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Broadcast
Year: 1986
“Pass the Dutchie” – Musical Youth
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: The Youth of Today
Year: 1982
“What I Am” – Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Shooting Rubberbands At the Stars
Year: 1988
“Electric Avenue” – Eddy Grant
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Killer On the Rampage
Year: 1982
“Maniac” – Michael Sembello
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Bossa Nova Hotel
Year: 1983
“We’re Not Gonna Take It” – Twisted Sister
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Stay Hungry
Year: 1984
“Somebody’s Watching Me” – Rockwell
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Somebody’s Watching Me
Year: 1984
“You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” – Dead or Alive
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Youthquake
Year: 1985
“It Takes Two” – Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: It Takes Two
Year: 1988
“The Safety Dance” – Men Without Hats
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Rhythm of Youth
Year: 1983
“99 Luftballons” – Nena
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Nena
Year: 1983
“Whip It” – Devo
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Freedom of Choice
Year: 1980
“In A Big Country” – Big Country
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: The Crossing
Year: 1983
“She Blinded Me With Science” – Thomas Dolby
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: The Golden Age of Wireless
Year: 1982
“Obsession” – Animotion
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Animotion
Year: 1984
“Relax” – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Year: 1983
“Too Shy” – Kajagoogoo
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: White Feathers
Year: 1983
“I Want Candy” – Bow Wow Wow
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Last of the Mohicans
Year: 1982
“I Melt With You” – Modern English
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: After the Snow
Year: 1982
“Mickey” – Toni Basil
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Word of Mouth
Year: 1982
“Tainted Love” – Soft Cell
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Non-stop Erotic Cabaret
Year: 1982
“867-5309 / Jenny” – Tommy Tutone
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Tommy Tutone 2
Year: 1981
“Take On Me” – A-Ha
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Hunting High and Low
Year: 1985
“I Ran (So Far Away)” – A Flock of Seagulls
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: A Flock of Seagulls
Year: 1982
“Come on Eileen” – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Embedded from www.youtube.com.Album: Too-Rye Ay
Year: 1982