Keala Settle is an American actress and singer, primarily a stage performer, whose recorded fame rests almost entirely on one soaring showtune. "This Is Me", which she performed in the 2017 film The Greatest Showman, became a defiant anthem of self-acceptance, winning a Golden Globe and earning an Academy Award nomination, carried by the film's enormous and lasting popularity.
Settle is a Broadway and theatre performer rather than a recording artist, so her streaming presence is essentially that one blockbuster-soundtrack moment. Nothing else under her name comes close.
On streaming, "This Is Me" sits near 970 million plays, while her next genuinely different track trails far below. That sends the ratio above 30, many times our 5.0 line.
By our measure Keala Settle is a certified one-hit wonder, with the obvious caveat that she is a stage actress whose recorded output is a by-product of a film role. One rousing, much-belted anthem from a hit movie musical has, on streams, come to stand as the entirety of her recording career. The verdict says more about the film's reach than about any pop ambitions of her own.