Curtis Waters is a Canadian-American musician, born in Nepal and raised across India, Germany, and Canada, who became the first Nepal-born artist to find major international success. He recorded much of his early work in a college dorm, and his breakout, the cocky, hyper-colourful "Stunnin'", released in 2020, blew up on TikTok and carried his bedroom-pop sound to a global audience.
Waters is a genuine, prolific artist who has released albums of restless, genre-hopping music and spoken openly about mental health. But none of his other songs have travelled anywhere near as far as that one viral hit.
On streaming, "Stunnin'" sits near 332 million plays, while his next most-streamed track trails at around 14 million. That sends the ratio above 23, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Curtis Waters is a certified one-hit wonder, of the very modern, platform-made variety. He is a serious and ambitious artist with a real, expanding catalogue, but his audience keeps returning to the one bright, brash song that a TikTok trend lifted into the wider world, and on the numbers it still towers over everything else he has made.