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Updating the Top 100: Devin Mesoraco

Related Topics: Devin Mesoraco, Popular music

The concept of a one-hit wonder in popular music is both culturally pervasive and more or less objectively defined. How many times did a band release a song that reached the Billboard Top 40 (or whatever is determined to be a relevant criterion)? You probably have your favorite example that is incorrect unless it’s Spacehog’s In The Meantime.

We don’t talk much about the concept of one-hit wonders in sports, perhaps because they’re not as plentiful or as easily identified. Maybe it’s because a song is able to be consumed over and over again without degradation of its elements whereas at some point a great baseball season just becomes numbers on a page.