Heartland are an American country band who scored one tender, emotionally resonant hit in the mid-2000s. "I Loved Her First", released in 2006, is a heartfelt ballad sung from the perspective of a father giving his daughter away at her wedding, and it topped the country charts, becoming a fixture of father-daughter dances ever since.
The band were unable to follow it with another hit, and the rest of their catalogue sits far behind that one emotional anthem.
On streaming, "I Loved Her First" sits near 74 million plays, while their next most-streamed track trails at well under one million. That sends the ratio above 90, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Heartland are a certified one-hit wonder. Theirs is a classic country story: a band who struck a deep emotional chord with one perfectly-timed ballad that found a permanent home at weddings, then watched the wider spotlight move on, leaving that single tearjerker standing far ahead of everything else they recorded. For many families it remains the only song of theirs they will ever need, played at countless weddings by people who could not name the band that recorded it.