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The term one-hit wonder is most often used to describe music performers with only one Top 40 hit single or for having one signature song which overshadows their other work. However, the term is used as well to describe other, related phenomena such as a software company which only has one widely successful release, or for an athlete, known for only one major career event. ==Music industry== Music journalist Wayne (Jancik ), whose book, ''The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders,'' published in 1997 and covering the period from the start of the rock and roll era in 1955 to 1992, defines a one-hit wonder objectively as "an act that has won a position on () national, pop, Top 40 just once." Jancik's ''The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders,'' because of the publisher's limitation on size, only includes the top twenty One-Hit Wonders, or roughly half of the one-hit wonders that made the Top 40 from 1955 through 1992, and (because it was officially licensed by ''Billboard'' magazine) used the ''Billboard Hot 100'' as its reference chart. The author has published a website ("One-Hit Wonders," The Book ), which now includes all the one-hit wonders profiles he had originally written for the book. However, this formal definition can therefore include acts with greater success outside their lone pop hit and who are thus not typically considered one-hit wonders, while at the same time excluding acts who have multiple hits which have been overshadowed by one signature song, or those performers who never actually hit the top 40, but, had exactly one song achieve mainstream popularity in some other fashion (that is, a "turntable hit") and who are thus considered one-hit wonders. One-hit wonders are usually relative to a given market, either a country or sometimes a genre; a performer may be a one-hit wonder in one but have multiple hits (or no hits) in another. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「One-hit wonder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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