The vast majority of one hit wonders weren't trying to be that, they just released a second single that we all felt comfortable ignoring

It's very funny to me that so many careers have been made and so many lifetimes absolutely set because a band had more than one but fewer than three interesting songs. Hello matchbox 20

Everclear's second single was moderately successful but they're still a one hit wonder

There was a b-story on american dad recently where stan and klaus started a podcast on which they literally just name 90s bands. I have become that bit

The Presidents of the United States of America had at least three solid hit singles but are still sort of thought of as a one hit wonder. That was a good band and I stand by that

The presidents were one of the bands I worked with when I was in that business. Easily top five nicest bands I worked with, just so happy to be playing music for a living

Bands like cake and... smash mouth, limp bizkit, etc, seem to occupy another category, which is more like multi-hit wonder but existing importantly in relation to the past in the way that one-hit wonders do https://twitter.com/lizzielohan/status/1322006988285485056

Also I've never considered myself a cake "fan" but I still listen to them nowadays lol. There's something about their extensive instrumentation and commitment to the 12 guys in the back yelling lifestyle that I just can't quit

Sugar Ray. Three hits, two of which were massive, still kind of a one-hit wonder

Their career (along with smash mouth's) is inextricably tied to McG, whose videos for Fly, Every Morning, Walking on the Sun, All Star, and others were arguably just as famous as the songs themselves

McG went on to grace us with things like 2000s Charlie's Angels and the show Chuck (which featured a cake song as its theme), so that whole lineage is a massive mixed bag

Filter's two biggest hits are so discordant: Hey Man Nice Shot and Take a Picture are not similar songs