Eddie Murphy needs no introduction as one of the most successful comedians and film stars of his generation, which makes his appearance here a curiosity. Alongside the movies, Murphy pursued music, and in 1985 he landed a genuine hit with "Party All the Time", a glossy funk-pop single produced by and recorded with Rick James.
The song reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, a serious result, and the Rick James collaboration gave it a real funk pedigree. But Murphy's musical output was always a sideline to his screen career, and nothing else he released found the same audience.
On streaming, "Party All the Time" sits near 88 million plays, well ahead of anything else under his name. The ratio lands near 17, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Eddie Murphy is a certified one-hit wonder, strictly as a recording artist. It is a label that means little next to a career as a comedy and box-office giant, but on music streams alone, one mid-80s funk single is the song the world still plays. For most artists it would be a career; for Murphy it is barely a footnote.