Billy Ray Cyrus is one of country music's more fascinating one-hit-wonder cases, because his career has been anything but small. "Achy Breaky Heart", released in 1992, was a phenomenon: a mullet, a line dance, and a hook that lodged in the culture, propelling his debut album to diamond sales.
Cyrus never stopped. He acted, he kept recording, he raised a pop superstar in his daughter Miley, and decades later he shared in one of the biggest songs of all time as a guest on Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road". Yet on his own, on streaming, nothing rivals his first hit.
"Achy Breaky Heart" sits near 210 million plays, while his next most-streamed solo track trails at around 16 million. That puts the ratio near 13, well past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Billy Ray Cyrus is a certified one-hit wonder, at least as a solo artist, which shows how narrow the label can be. A man with a diamond album, an acting career, and a share in a record-shattering crossover smash is still, by his own streaming numbers, defined by one early-90s country song.