Lucenzo is a French-Portuguese singer who played a central part in one of the late 2000s' most infectious dance trends, the Europe-wide kuduro craze. His "Vem Dancar Kuduro" and the closely related "Danza Kuduro", the latter a massive hit credited to Don Omar and Lucenzo, turned a frantic Angolan-Portuguese rhythm into an inescapable global party anthem.
That sound was everywhere for a couple of years, and Lucenzo's name was attached to its biggest record. But the moment passed, and nothing else he released approached the same scale.
On streaming, his signature kuduro track sits near 2.5 billion plays, while his next most-streamed song trails at around 54 million. That sends the ratio above 46, many times our 5.0 line.
By our measure Lucenzo is a certified one-hit wonder. His is a familiar dance-music shape: an artist who rode one enormous, of-the-moment groove to worldwide ubiquity, then watched the trend move on while the song itself kept racking up plays for years afterward. Few dance crazes leave behind a single record this durable, still pulling billions of plays long after the trend that birthed it faded.