Sixpence None the Richer were an American band led by singer Leigh Nash, and for a stretch around 1999 they were impossible to escape. "Kiss Me", a featherlight, jangly love song, became a global hit after appearing in the teen film She's All That and the Dawson's Creek finale, the kind of placements that turn a song into a cultural memory.
The band had a real catalogue, including a well-liked cover of The La's "There She Goes" and a version of Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over". But "Kiss Me" outgrew all of it. On streaming it sits past 1.3 billion plays, while "There She Goes", their next biggest, trails at under 200 million.
That puts the ratio close to eight, past our 5.0 line, so by our measure Sixpence None the Richer are a certified one-hit wonder.
It is a gentle example of the pattern. The band were craftsmen with a devoted following, not a novelty act, yet one perfectly placed song came to define them so completely that even their other singles, several of them covers, sit far behind in the numbers.