Baha Men are a Bahamian group, rooted in the energetic junkanoo sound of their islands, who became globally famous with one inescapable party anthem. "Who Let the Dogs Out", their 2000 reworking of a song by Anslem Douglas, was a barking, call-and-response chant that swept sports arenas, films, and adverts, winning a Grammy and becoming one of the defining novelty hits of its era.
The band had a long career at home before that breakthrough and kept recording afterward, but nothing came close, and to the wider world they are entirely the "Who Let the Dogs Out" group.
On streaming, "Who Let the Dogs Out" sits near 202 million plays, while their next most-streamed track trails at around 13 million. That sends the ratio above 15, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Baha Men are a certified one-hit wonder. Theirs is a classic novelty-hit story: a group with real roots in their own musical tradition who caught the world's ear with one rowdy, impossible-to-forget chant, so huge and so endlessly reused at games and on screens that it swallowed everything else they ever made.