One-hit wonders who had a successful follow-up single

Falco was the Michael Jackson of the German-speaking world during the 1980s, while in the US and UK, he's seen as a one-hit wonder for his #1 smash "Rock Me Amadeus", a novelty hit in every definition of the word from those markets' perspective. Despite this, Falco's followup single, "Vienna Calling", was also a big hit, reaching the top 20 in both the US and UK.



Like Falco, Lou Bega is a pop singer from the German-speaking world famous in the west for his signature mega-smash novelty song. Also like Falco, his second international song actually did quite decently on the charts, despite nobody remembering it. "Tricky Tricky" hit #18 in Canada and also did pretty well on the Mainstream Top 40 in the US, peaking at #20.



Yes, believe it or not, Men without Hats achieved success on the pop charts for more than just that medieval-themed blast of synthesizer madness from the early '80s. This was released four years later, in 1987, capping the early, uptempo synthpop wave spearheaded by artists like Gary Numan and the Human League. "Pop Goes the World" made it to #20 in the US, but it was absolutely enormous in certain other countries, including Sweden, Canada, South Africa, and Austria, the latter of which seeing it emerge a #1 hit.



"The Final Countdown" is such a staple of sporting events, as well as such an infamous representation of everything cheesily dated about the 1980s that most people seem to forget that Europe's third international single, "Carrie", actually outperformed "The Final Countdown", at least in the US. "The Final Countdown" reached #8 here but failed to make Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1987, while "Carrie" peaked at #3 and finished at #56 on the Year-End list.