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A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit. [1] The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take On Me" by a-ha in the United States, [2] [3] [4] which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).
VH1: 100 Greatest Rock & Roll Moments on TV [44] #59 VH1's "100 Greatest" special that counted down the most memorable times when rock and the tube combined to make entertainment history, spanning five decades in five hours over five nights, premiered July 31 to August 4, 2000.
The Greatest (TV series) The Greatest. (TV series) The Greatest is a television series broadcast on VH1. Each episode counts down either songs, albums, music videos, moments, musicians, or celebrities of a particular category.
"Stairway to Heaven" is often rated among the greatest rock songs of all time. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to music journalist Stephen Davis , although the song was released in 1971, it took until 1973 before the song's popularity ascended to truly " anthemic " status. [ 33 ]
In 2002, VH1 voted it as the 64th greatest one-hit wonder of all time. In 2007, the song was voted number 90 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s". [19] It was listed number 440 on Blender's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born". [20] In 2010 it was number 106 on Pitchfork's "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s". [21]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer critic Robert Jamieson called it the worst love song of all time. [80] The track also appeared in the Houston Press ' "10 Songs We Never, Ever Want to Hear Again, Ever" [81] while the line "I bought a ticket to the world but now I've come back again" was included in NME ' s "50 Worst Pop Lyrics of All Time". [82]
It was listed at number 18 on VH1's "100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time". [ citation needed ] Its second single, "21 Questions", which was released to digital download on March 4 of that same year, became 50 Cent's second chart topper on the Billboard Hot 100 , where it remained for four non-consecutive weeks.
In 2002, NME awarded the song the number two spot on its list of "100 Greatest Singles of All Time", [87] with Kerrang! ranking it at number one on its own list of the "100 Greatest Singles of All Time". [3] VH1 placed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number one on its list of "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years" in 2003, [88] while that same ...