Favorite 70's One Hit Wonders #1 - "Pop Muzik"

Tweet

If you're going to be a one hit wonder, you've hopefully done a memorable song to heighten your status. And in the case of M's 1979 hit, "Pop Muzik," as the Trouser Press Record Guide put it, "oh, what a hit!" It's #1 in my Favorite 70's One Hit Wonders series. M is essentially Robin Scott, working with various sidemen over the years (David Bowie even provided hand claps on M's debut.) In 1979, M cleaned up with "Pop Muzik," a tune that rode the burgeoning late-70's new wave movement all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was M's only foray into the Top 40 (and, the only tune in this series to chart at the top.) And why not? It's fun, it's catchy, like disco with a new wave attitude. (I'm using the rules from Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders: An act can only have appeared on the Top 40 of the Hot 100 once. Any sub-charts don't count, and neither do countries other than the States.)