Big Mountain were an American reggae band from San Diego who scored one breezy crossover hit, and it was a cover. Their laid-back reggae version of Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way", released in 1994 and featured on the Reality Bites soundtrack, became a worldwide hit and the song that defines them.
The band had roots in the California reggae scene and kept performing, but nothing else they recorded came near the reach of that one sunny cover, which captured the breezy, mid-90s appetite for reggae-flavoured pop.
On streaming, "Baby, I Love Your Way" sits near 511 million plays, while their next genuinely different track trails at only a few million. That sends the ratio above 60, many times our 5.0 line.
By our measure Big Mountain are a certified one-hit wonder, with the now-familiar twist that their signature is a cover of someone else's song. They took a soft-rock standard, gave it a relaxed reggae lilt, and watched their version become so much larger than anything original they made that, on streams, it stands almost entirely alone.