ILoveMakonnen is an American singer and rapper who broke through with one woozy, instantly recognisable hit. "Tuesday", originally his own track, exploded in 2014 when Drake added a guest verse to the remix, its hook about going out on a Tuesday becoming inescapable and earning a Grammy nomination.
A respected songwriter admired within the industry, he kept releasing music and collaborating, but no later track approached the reach of that breakout, and the rest of his catalogue sits far behind it.
On streaming, "Tuesday" sits near 272 million plays, while his next most-streamed track trails at around 22 million. That sends the ratio above 12, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure ILoveMakonnen is a certified one-hit wonder, at least by stream count. His is a familiar mid-2010s story: an artist who caught fire with one off-kilter, irresistibly catchy song, boosted into the mainstream by a superstar feature, then watched that moment of peak attention pass, leaving the single track that broke him standing well ahead of everything else he has put out. He has remained a quietly admired writer and collaborator since, but in the streaming numbers that one woozy anthem keeps pulling the crowd, far ahead of the rest.