This week, I’m joined by Trevor Dale—co-host of Album Divers—to curate a 20-song playlist spotlighting some of the most memorable one-hit wonders of the 1990s. Spanning alternative rock, pop, dance, and post-grunge, these tracks capture a decade when a single song could dominate radio, MTV, and the Billboard charts—then seemingly vanish just as quickly.

To define what truly qualifies as a one-hit wonder, we set clear criteria rooted in chart performance and cultural impact. If an artist placed more than one song in the Billboard US Hot 100 Top 40, they were  ...