Alice Deejay was a Dutch Eurodance project built around producer DJ Jurgen and a team of collaborators, with vocals fronted by Judith Pronk. The track that made the name began life as a 1997 instrumental, then gained the vocal hook that turned it into a phenomenon: "Do you think you're better off alone?"
"Better Off Alone" became one of the defining dance records of the late 1990s, reaching number two in the UK and becoming a club and radio staple across Europe and beyond. Years later it still turns up on best-of-dance lists. The project released more material, but it never escaped the shadow of that one song.
On streaming the imbalance is stark. "Better Off Alone" sits near 724 million plays, while the next most-streamed Alice Deejay track trails at around 53 million. That puts the ratio above 13, well past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Alice Deejay are a certified one-hit wonder, and a quintessential one for the era. Late-90s dance was full of acts built around a single irresistible hook, and few hooks proved as durable, or as solitary in a catalogue, as this one.