House of Pain were an American hip-hop group who leaned hard into Irish-American identity, and in 1992 they made one of the most durable party records ever recorded. "Jump Around", with its squealing horn-stab hook and Everlast's barked vocals, became a sports-arena and dancefloor staple that has never really gone away.
The group released more music, and Everlast went on to a successful solo career with a very different, blues-inflected sound, including the hit "What It's Like". But that ran under his own name; under the House of Pain banner, "Jump Around" is the song, by a colossal margin.
On streaming, it sits near 741 million plays, while their next most-streamed track, "Top O' the Morning to Ya", trails at around 23 million. That puts the ratio above 32, many times our 5.0 line.
By our measure House of Pain are a certified one-hit wonder. It is a textbook case of a single song achieving a kind of immortality: decades on, "Jump Around" still fills rooms, while the rest of the catalogue is left to the devoted. Few hooks from the era have proved so completely impossible to retire.