We’ve rounded up 20 one-hit wonders from the '70s and investigated what happened next. For the sake of our list, we defined one-hit wonders as artists who never again reached the U.S. Top 20.

There's a good chance that you have never heard of these one-hit wonders from the 70s, unless you're a diehard fan of the era.

The music of the 1960s and 1970s wasn’t just about legendary bands that dominated the charts — it was also an era filled with unforgettable one-hit wonders. These songs may have been the only ...

One hit single is one more than most bands ever achieve. That said, more often than not throughout music history, we tend to remember them as one-hit wonders. There were plenty of them in the 1970s.

Despite the fact that “hit” is right there in the name, one-hit wonders get a bad reputation for being lesser-than, and these popular tracks from the ‘70s are certainly no exception.

Or zoom into a decade; there are user playlists of one-hitters from the 70s, the 80s and 90s, the 2000s, the 2010s (if you’ll let Maroon 5 and John Legend slide), and any combo thereof. Spotify ...

You can take all of the classic-rock radio stations, all of the misguided DJs who don’t understand that rock music is supposed to keep moving forward, put them all in a big, giant pile and yo… ...

Surveying the pop charts recently, one gets an eerie feeling of deja vu. Artists such as Donny Osmond, the Bee Gees, Aerosmith and Donna Summer have made comebacks, while popular heavy-metal acts l… ...