One hit wonders !

[jazzboCR]

i have just pulled out my UK 'music bible' and they describe a 'one hit wonder' in the UK as "an artist who has had one charted single entry which peaked at #1 and no other chart placed single release"

my Aussie 'music bible' states...."an artist who has only had one top20 hit"

i dont have a book of US chart hits anymore(its got lost in the house moves ive had over the years), so i cannot qoute what the US definition of a one hit wonder is?!

but from the UK/AU definition, the definition is different is different countries....so there is no official definition really, i guess we can all assume it is what we believe it to be...so confusing,so 'grey', so stupid!

Here's a Billboard site that may help ease the strain: http://www.billboard.com/charts
To show you how subjective these definitions, this designator can be: If I think a person/group had only one hit, they only had one hit. And vice versa (no, not dirty Italian poems). Why let another person or entity shape your taste or opinion? Slavish devotion to be in the "In Crowd", self-selected? This can lead you to crowd out a lot of other good stuff by these folks that you might like better, that don't have the sales imprimatur/seal of mass approval.
Not saying this isn't fun because it is--mainly 'cuz it's lead me to some fascinating off-trails (Garland Jefferys' "96 Tears", e.g.). Let you imagination run free...