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The McDuff One-Hit Wonder Rule
The McDuff Rule Copyright Andy McCarthy & Danny Duffy. A One-hit wonder is an artist whose most successful song is the only song that they release that enters the Top 20 of a particular Record Chart.

Rationale: Identifying a One-hit wonder should be done according to a certain Chart (USA/UK/Australia etc.) Ideally the claimant should identify the Chart being referenced, either directly or by implication. The term One-Hit Wonder should not be used if a Chart is not being referenced. Applying the term One-Hit Wonder implies at least a modicum of success so the McDuff rule focuses only on the Top 20 of any Chart. This allows for varying Chart sizes and takes into account artists whose most successful song is a smash hit and this success tends to ‘spill-over’ onto the subsequent release which is often much less successful. In a broader sense the McDuff rule classifies a Top 20 song as a ‘Hit’ and a non-Top 20 song to have merely ‘Charted’.

--Stevinoz (talk) 02:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)