The music biz is fickle. One minute you’re a chart-topping star and the next you’re an absolute nobody, barely making enough off the royalties of your one song to pay rent to your parents while you try desperately to write another hit tune.

Zillions of artists and bands have briefly made a splash, before disappearing back into obscurity, never to be heard from again. But some of these one hit wonders are, in our opinion, worth more than just one hit. Here are 20 former chart toppers we’re really hoping will have a second successful single in the future.

1. Gotye and Kimbra

Arguably the biggest song in 2012 has amassed almost 645 million views on YouTube and picked up two Teen Choice awards, a Grammy and an APRA music award. While Kimbra went on to release an album titled the Golden Echo in 2014, Gotye is yet to release a single track since his whirlwind success almost three years ago. We’re hoping that the pair will release a comeback in 2015.

2. 3 of a Kind

Okay, we’ll admit that not EVERYONE is pining for a followup to 2004′s number one hit Baby Cakes. But we do kind of wish they’d carried on making music after their brief chart success.

3. Gary Jules

Mad World made everyone feel all kind of feelings in the cult classic Donnie Darko, but Gary Jules didn’t see chart success until he released the track as a single in 2003, which remains the only single he’s ever actually released. Jules’ music is forever featuring in the background of TV and films, but we’re yet to see a hit as huge as Mad World.

4. Willow Smith

Willow Smith smashed into the charts with her insanely catchy hit Whip My Hair in 2010, when she was just nine years old. That’s right, NINE YEARS OLD. However, she’s yet to follow up on her former glory and never got round to releasing an album. Now aged 14, we’re hoping Willow will put out other bangers in the near future.

5. M83

Despite making music together since 2001 and releasing a grand total of six studio albums and 17 singles in the last 14 years, M83 only ever really managed to make waves with their 2011 track Midnight City, which will sound all to familiar to Made in Chelsea addicts.

6. The Postal Service

The only song you’ll have ever heard by these guys is Such Great Heights – it was used as the soundtrack to numerous TV adverts and also featured in Greys Anatomy and Veronica Mars, while Iron & Wine’s cover of the track can be heard in Garden State. It was probably also your Myspace profile song at some point. The band never got round to releasing any more music and disbanded in 2013, but we’re still secretly hoping they’ll make another perfect forlorn indie love ballad someday.

7. Eamon

Eamon perfectly summed up angry heartbreak in this 2004 banger. Watch angry Eamon throw a pizza on the floor, roam the streets in a mustard yellow tracksuit and throw a picture of his ex across the room in a heartbroken rage. Oh Eamon, where did you go? And why didn’t any of your follow-up singles ever make the top 10?

8. Frankee

“You know there are two sides to every story,” says Frankee as she throws teddy bears, clothes and (for some reason) a plant out the window at her ex. By the way, her ex is Eamon. Or let’s pretend they were (Eamon is credited as one of the track’s co-writers). Maybe 11 years on they’ll decide they wanted each other back after all this time and write an Islands in the Stream-esque love ballad.

9. Lumidee

Lumidee never really stopped making music, but you’ve probably never actually heard anything from her since Never Leave You (Uh Oh). Oh, except for that song she did with Pitbull. But like all Pitbull songs, that’s a tune we’d all probably rather forget about. Never Leave You remains an absolute banger and you should do a little dance whenever you hear the clicky intro bit. Please give us another of these gems, Lumidee?

10. Deee-Lite

Yeah, they put out six more singles after Groove is in the Heart, but none of those got anywhere near the top 20 (Power of Love, anyone? Good Beat? Pussycat Meow?), so in our eyes Deee-Lite are still well and truly a one hit wonder. When your one hit is this good, do you really need another?

11. Nina Sky

Identical twins Nicola and Natalie stormed the charts with this ultra-catchy twintastic hit and then never returned to their former glory. Nina Sky, if you’re looking to make another hit, we’d be more than happy to accept you back into our lives.

12. The Wannadies

“I’m a huge Wannadies fan,” said no one ever. Well, not since the mid-90s anyway. Probably because their only hit from 1995 to 2009 remained “The You and Me Song”. The band broke up six years ago after releasing six studio albums, and enjoyed a pretty successful career back home in Sweden. Nonetheless, we’re pretty sure this is the one and only song you’ll actually remember from them.

13. Peter, Bjorn And John

Dedicated PB&J fans are probably hurling abuse at their screens right now and screaming “YOUNG FOLKS ISN’T THEIR ONLY SONG! IT’S NOT EVEN THE BEST ONE!!!” but even they can’t deny the facts: the band’s only charting single is 2006′s Young Folks, which made it into the top 20, peaking at number 13. You’ve heard it in the Homebase adverts, Gossip Girl, FIFA 08 and has been covered by the Kooks and sampled in the Kanye West, and the band are yet to release a song of the same popularity.

14. Ida Maria

2008′s hit single I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked projected Norwegian pop-punk musician Ida Maria into the spotlight, landing her a spot at Glastonbury and a live slot on Later…with Jools Holland. After follow up singles Oh My God and Bad Karma failed to generate as much interest, Ida just sort of disappeared. Maybe she’ll come up with a tune as toe-tappingly good again someday.

15. White Town

White Town’s Your Woman sailed to number one in the UK, and made the top 10 in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, New Zeland and Sweden. Despite releasing six singles since Your Woman, nothing else has ever charted and his latest musical endeavours aren’t exactly club bangers. Come on White Town, we know you’ve got it in you to make another hit.

16. J-Kwon 

You probably waved around a bottle of J20 while singing “erreybody in the club getting tipsy, erreybody in the club gettin’ tipsy” back in 2004. Like your love for J20s, J-Kwon’s career didn’t last long and he’s get to produce anything of note since Tipsy, although he did release a song dissing Odd Future in 2013.

17. Phantom Planet 

For die-hard OC fans, the tinkly piano opening will no doubt conjure up all kinds of feelings (WHY DID MARISSA HAVE TO DIE? WHEN WILL I MEET MY OWN SETH COHEN/SUMMER ROBERTS? WHY AREN’T I RELATED TO SANDY COHEN, THE COOLEST TV DAD OF ALL TIME?), for everyone else it’s just a song about California. PP never released anything as successful again, but we’re hoping they can squeeze out another hit sometime soon.

18. M/A/R/R/S

M/A/R/R/S were comprised of A.R Kane and Colourbox, and only ever actually released one single, Pump up the Volume, which has remained a club banger since its release in 1987. If they were to release another song this good, our ears might just implode.

19. Tatu

Everyone and their mum was singing “Allthethingsshesaidallthethingsshesaidrunningthroughmyhead” back in 2002, but we’re betting you probably haven’t listened to any of Tatu’s six studio albums. They did have a little bit of chart success in the UK with completely forgettable singles Not Gonna Get Us and All About Us, but arguably nothing as great as All the Things She Said. Where are you, Tatu? And when are you gonna make us another hit?

20. Sak Noel

The name Sak Noel probably doesn’t ring any bells, but the music producer’s one hit Loca People (also known as “All Day/All Night”) will probably sound familiar. Sadly the Catalan producer has failed to conjure up another charting song, but maybe someday he’ll make another party hearty tune.