Stevie Nicks demands a loud caveat. As the iconic voice of Fleetwood Mac and a hugely successful solo artist, twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she is one of the most beloved figures in rock. To call her a one-hit wonder is, by any reasonable measure, absurd.
But our method looks only at songs credited to her as a solo artist, and there one track has pulled ahead. "Edge of Seventeen", from her 1981 solo debut, is a driving, white-winged-dove rock anthem that has become her signature solo song, much-sampled and endlessly licensed, and on streams it leads the rest of her solo work.
Her other solo songs, several of them famous duets, trail behind on streams. Dividing the hit by her second biggest gives a ratio of about 5.2, just over our 5.0 line.
So by our strict, numbers-only measure, and counting only her solo releases, Stevie Nicks narrowly registers as a certified one-hit wonder. We flag the caveat as firmly as possible: this is a rock legend whose work with Fleetwood Mac alone secures her place among the greats, and whose single most-streamed solo song has merely edged ahead of the rest.