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Here are the Top 10 EDM One-Hit Wonders of All-Time
Before dance music had its heyday, people around the world were treated to several electronic one-hit wonders, many of which have stood the test of time. Whether you were an ’80s kid jamming along to Technotronic’s “Pump Up The Jam” prior to Space Jam or rocking out to DJ Sammy’s iconic remix of “Heaven” at your middle school dance, you can relive the 10 best EDM one-hit wonders below. 1. Cookin’ On 3 Burners, Kungs – “This Girl” Originally released by Australian funk trio Cookin’ On 3 Burners, “This Girl” went on to receive a 2016 remix by French producer Kungs, who launched it to global popularity en route to charting in 18 countries. A study conducted by broadbrandchoices marked the song the second biggest one-hit wonder on Spoti...
W&W Remix One of the World’s First Memes, “Dragostea Din Tei”—AKA the “Numa Numa Song”
The year is 2004. All of our phones flipped, none of them connected to the Internet, and the term “social media” meant nothing to us. Rather than spending hours in bed scrolling through memes with our thumbs, we sat down at our computers and played flash games through an ultra-fast dial-up or hi-tech DSL connection. If any of this sounds familiar to you, then you must be familiar with one of the world’s oldest memes, the Numa Numa Dance. Viewed close to a billion times, for those unfamiliar, the meme was nothing more than a grainy webcam video of a man lip-syncing and dancing to the 2003 single “Dragostea Din Tei” by the Moldovan Eurodance trio, O-Zone. To the younger readers: Yes, this is seriously what the internet was like in the early 2000s. Be grateful fo...
