Rednex were a Swedish group who made one of the most bizarre and inescapable novelty hits of the 1990s by colliding two unlikely worlds. "Cotton Eye Joe", released in 1994, took a traditional American fiddle tune and set it to a thumping Eurodance beat, and the result became a worldwide smash and a permanent fixture of sports arenas, weddings, and barn dances everywhere.
The group leaned hard into a cartoonish hillbilly image and had further success in parts of Europe, but to the wider world they are entirely defined by that one stomping novelty, which has never really left the culture.
On streaming, "Cotton Eye Joe" sits near 502 million plays, while their next most-streamed track, "The Spirit of the Hawk", trails at around 32 million. That sends the ratio above 15, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Rednex are a certified one-hit wonder, and an archetypal Eurodance-novelty one. Theirs is the quintessential pattern: a single, gloriously daft mash-up of fiddle and dance beat that conquered the world for a moment and then stood, decades later, as essentially the whole of what the group is remembered for.