Does The Dearth Of One-Hit Wonders Mean We've Hit Rock Bottom? [I Have Seen The Future And It Is Rappin' Rodney]

Yesterday I was half-watching VH1's countdown of '80s one-hit wonders (because there is nothing on TV on Sunday afternoons except America's Next Top Model marathons and you can only watch those so many weekends in a row), and it got me thinking. Are there less one-hit wonders than there used to be? Certainly they're still around, as there always are and always will be: neither Mims nor the Shop Boyz went anywhere after their massive hits ("This Is Why I'm Hot" and "Party Like a Rockstar," in c...

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