Biggest One-Hit Wonders of All Time

The British-American ensemble scored a No. 1 hit on Billboard with the dance-pop song, “I’ve Been Thinking About You,” released from their album “In the Blood.” The song was No. 1 for one week on the Billboard Hot 100 and was on the chart for 19 weeks.

Los Lobos, three-time Grammy Award winners from Los Angeles, had a hit with their Latin-infused rocker “La Bamba” in 1987. The song was No. 1 for three weeks on Billboard and stayed on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for 21 weeks.

The quintessential club band, Billy Vera and the Beaters have been putting on popular shows around Southern California since 1979. But the group — modeled after the classic Ray Charles and Little Richard R&B bands of the 1950s, complete with four saxophones — has had only this one big hit, a song Vera wrote.

Dexys Midnight Runners’ biggest hit remains a favorite of bar patrons. It came off the British band’s second album, “Too-Rye-Ay.” “Come On Eileen” spent one week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and was on the chart for 23 weeks.

Marky Mark may have been a one-hit wonder, but he also became a big star. “Mark” was actually Mark Wahlberg, and the video for “Good Vibrations” — not to be confused with the Beach Boys song of the same name — showed off his buff physique, which led to a job as a Calvin Klein underwear model. That, in turn, helped him land his role as a porn star in “Boogie Nights,” and the rest is show-biz history.