One Hit Wonders of 2017
19 artists
By 2017, streaming had become the centre of gravity for the charts, and that shifted what a one-hit wonder actually looked like. A track no longer needed to sell millions of CDs to dominate a year; it just needed to lodge inside the right playlists for months on end. The result was a particularly modern crop of breakouts, from tropical-house holdovers to hip-hop one-shots and indie ballads that quietly racked up huge play counts. Sort the certified 2017 artists by our ratio and the year's familiar singles surface immediately, each one far ahead of anything else under the artist's name.
French Montana
"Unforgettable"
6.6x ratio
hip hop · United States · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDEROffset
"Ric Flair Drip (with Metro Boomin)"
5.7x ratio
hip hop · United States · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERPortugal. The Man
"Feel It Still"
11.8x ratio
indie rock · United States · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERDynoro
"In My Mind"
11.0x ratio
edm · Lithuania · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERLoud Luxury
"Body"
7.0x ratio
electronic · Canada · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERZac Efron
"Rewrite The Stars"
5.1x ratio
United States · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERSheck Wes
"Mo Bamba"
14.6x ratio
trap · United States · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERBANNERS
"Someone To You"
9.4x ratio
Liverpool · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERPinkfong
"Baby Shark"
17.8x ratio
children's music · South Korea · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERSYML
"Where's My Love"
5.0x ratio
indie folk · United States · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERKeala Settle
"This Is Me"
45.6x ratio
United States · Female · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERMen I Trust
"Show Me How"
5.3x ratio
dream pop · Canada · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERgrandson
"Blood // Water"
8.9x ratio
alternative rock · Canada · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERJory Boy
"No Te Hagas"
15.5x ratio
latin · Puerto Rico · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERLil Xan
"Betrayed"
5.3x ratio
cloud rap · United States · Male · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERMaite Perroni
"Loca (feat. Cali y El Dandee)"
5.0x ratio
latin pop · Mexico · Female · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERShashaa Tirupati
"Baarish"
87.6x ratio
Mumbai · Female · 2017
ONE HIT WONDERRent (musical)
"Seasons of Love - From the Motion Picture RENT"
1,000.0x ratio
2017
ONE HIT WONDERKeinemusik
"H"
9.0x ratio
Berlin · 2017