Robbie Dupree is an American singer-songwriter who landed one smooth, sun-warmed hit at the dawn of the 1980s. "Steal Away", released in 1980, is a mellow, breezy piece of yacht-rock with a gently rolling groove, and it became a top-ten hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, the song that defines him.
He had a modest follow-up in "Hot Rod Hearts" and kept recording within the soft-rock world, but nothing approached the reach of his debut hit.
On streaming, "Steal Away" sits near 76 million plays, while his next most-streamed track, "Hot Rod Hearts", trails at around 13 million. That puts the ratio above 5, over our line.
By our measure Robbie Dupree is a certified one-hit wonder, with the small caveat that he had a second charting single. Theirs is a classic yacht-rock story: an artist who captured the smooth, laid-back sound of the era with one perfectly mellow single that became a radio staple, then settled into a steady career as the wider audience drifted, leaving that single breezy hit standing far ahead of the rest. Smooth and sun-warmed, "Steal Away" remains a staple of yacht-rock revivals and soft-rock playlists, far better remembered than anything else he recorded.