Carly Rae Jepsen is a Canadian pop singer who first appeared on Canadian Idol in 2007 and then conquered the world in 2012 with "Call Me Maybe", an impossibly catchy single that became one of the biggest songs of the decade and still sits near 2 billion streams.
A song that huge can swallow an artist's reputation, and plenty of casual listeners assume she is a one-hit wonder. The data disagrees. "I Really Like You" pulled in hundreds of millions of streams, "Good Time", her collaboration with Owl City, was a top-ten hit, and her album Emotion earned the kind of critical devotion that built a loyal, lasting fanbase.
Because her streams are spread across several songs rather than piled onto one, the ratio between her biggest and second biggest track is only about 3.38, below our 5.0 line. By our measure, Carly Rae Jepsen is not a one-hit wonder.
"Call Me Maybe" is still the headline, and probably always will be, but it is the peak of a real catalogue rather than a lone spike. The shape of her numbers looks nothing like a true one-hit wonder.