White Town is the one-man project of Jyoti Mishra, a British musician born in India, who scored one of the most unlikely hits of the late 1990s. "Your Woman", released in 1997, was recorded at home on modest equipment and built around a sampled 1930s trumpet melody, and this homemade bedroom-pop track improbably shot to number one in the UK.
It was a landmark moment for independent, self-produced music, but Mishra never sought or repeated mainstream success on that scale, continuing to make music largely on his own terms.
On streaming, "Your Woman" sits near 242 million plays, while his next most-streamed track trails at under two million. That sends the ratio above 150, one of the most extreme figures in our entire database.
By our measure White Town is a certified one-hit wonder of the starkest kind. The story is a charming one: a single, melancholy, self-made pop song, assembled in a bedroom around an old sample, that briefly conquered the charts and then receded almost entirely, leaving one quietly brilliant track standing by an enormous margin above everything else under the name.