Carlos Baute is a Venezuelan singer-songwriter with a long and successful career in Latin pop, particularly in Spain, so calling him a one-hit wonder overlooks years of steady work. But on streaming, one song has pulled clearly ahead of the rest.
That song is "Colgando en tus manos", his warm 2008 duet with the Spanish singer Marta Sánchez, which became a huge hit across the Spanish-speaking world and an enduring romantic standard. It remains, by a wide margin, the track most listeners associate with him.
His other songs are known to Latin-pop fans but trail well behind on global streams. "Colgando en tus manos" sits near 760 million plays, while his next most-streamed track, "Ando buscando", trails at around 146 million. That puts the ratio at about 5.2, over our 5.0 line.
So by our strict, numbers-only measure, Carlos Baute narrowly registers as a certified one-hit wonder. We flag the caveat clearly: this is an established Latin-pop artist with a real, decades-long catalogue, whose single most beloved duet has, on streams, simply pulled far enough ahead to tip the maths.