Planet Funk are an Italian electronic group who created one widely recognised instrumental anthem in the early 2000s. "Chase the Sun", released in 2001, is a soaring, melancholic dance-rock track, and it found a permanent home as the theme music for televised darts in the UK, as well as on dancefloors and in adverts, making it their defining record.
The group released other music in their atmospheric electronic style, but nothing approached the reach of "Chase the Sun".
On streaming, "Chase the Sun" sits near 67 million plays, while their next most-streamed track trails at around ten million. That puts the ratio above 6, past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Planet Funk are a certified one-hit wonder. Theirs is a familiar electronic story: a group with a respectable catalogue whose audience returns again and again to one instantly recognisable instrumental, lifted by its long association with sport and television, while the rest of their work sits far behind. On streams, that single soaring anthem stands well ahead of everything else they made. For countless darts fans it is simply the sound of the walk-on, a piece of music whose television life has comfortably eclipsed the rest of the band's career.