Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners are an American folk-rock band from Colorado Springs who released their debut album, fittingly, on the day its members graduated high school. One of its songs would take seven years to find its audience.
"Evergreen", originally released in 2017, made little impact at the time. Then, in 2024, it went viral on TikTok, its wistful, drifting melody soundtracking hundreds of thousands of clips, and the long-dormant song finally broke through, even debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 nearly a decade after it was written.
That delayed surge left it far ahead of the rest of the band's catalogue. On streaming, "Evergreen" sits near 1.2 billion plays, while their next most-streamed track, "Lake Missoula", trails at around 162 million. That puts the ratio above 7, past our 5.0 line.
So by our measure, for now, Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners are a certified one-hit wonder, with the caveat that applies to any band whose moment arrived this recently. Theirs is a pure streaming-age story: a teenage recording that waited the better part of a decade for the algorithm to discover it.