Cassadee Pope is an American singer with two distinct chapters: first as the frontwoman of the pop-punk band Hey Monday, then as the winner of the third season of The Voice, after which she pivoted into country-pop. It is that solo country turn that defines her here, through one breakout single.
"Wasting All These Tears", released in 2013 shortly after her television victory, is a polished, emotive country-pop song, and it became her biggest hit, going platinum and topping the country digital charts.
On streaming, "Wasting All These Tears" sits near 113 million plays, while her next most-streamed track trails at around 17 million. That puts the ratio above 6, past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Cassadee Pope is a certified one-hit wonder as a solo artist, with the caveat that she had a prior career fronting a band. Hers is a familiar post-talent-show story: a singer who turned a TV win into one strong, well-produced single that connected widely, then found the country mainstream hard to hold, leaving that single hit standing far ahead of everything else she has released on her own.