Eurythmics demand a clear caveat before anything else. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart were one of the defining acts of the 1980s, with a long line of classic singles and a place in the pop pantheon. No one would seriously call them a one-hit wonder.
But on streaming, one song dwarfs the rest of an illustrious catalogue. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", released in 1983 with its hypnotic synth line and Lennox's commanding vocal, has become a cultural monolith, sampled, covered, and endlessly replayed. It now sits near 1.9 billion plays.
Their other classics are genuinely big, with "Here Comes the Rain Again" and "There Must Be an Angel" pulling well into the hundreds of millions. Even so, dividing "Sweet Dreams" by their second biggest streaming track gives a ratio of about 10.9, well past our 5.0 line.
So by our strict, numbers-only measure, Eurythmics register as a certified one-hit wonder. We flag it as exactly the artifact our threshold exists to expose honestly: a multi-hit, hall-of-fame act whose single most iconic record has, on streams, simply outrun everything else they made.