One Dance is #1 on the coattails of a better hit. 2Pac is the example

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according to this article:

The rapper was Tupac Shakur. And the No. 1 hit was … no, not that one. That track was the B-side.


“How Do U Want It?”—2Pac’s only No. 1 hit on both the pop and R&B charts—is a middling ’Pac single. (Currently, it ranks fourth among his most-purchased iTunes tracks; on Spotify, it’s his eighth most-streamed.) If you can call it to mind, I’ll wager you remember the bubbly R&B chorus hook by Jodeci singers K-Ci and JoJo better than anything Makaveli is rapping. And no matter what you think of it, there’s no way you know it better than “California Love,” the deathless Dr. Dre–produced, Roger Troutman–vocodered jam that remains 2Pac’s all-time top single. “California” remained unreleased for the first six months of 1996, due to confusion over a shelved Dr. Dre album, before Death Row Records finally stuck it on the “How Do U Want It?” CD-single as track two. This “double-sided” single shot to No. 1 in under a month, largely on the strength of fans who wanted to own “California.” In the pages ofBillboard, “How?”—’Pac’s official summer ’96 single—was listed first, but it was not a big radio hit (No. 68 Pop Airplay, No. 17 R&B Airplay); “California” was clearly driving sales of the single. After that chart-topping success, 2Pac never reached the Top 10 again, despite an improbably vibrant posthumous career.

In short, “How Do U Want It?” hit No. 1 on the coattails of a better hit. After all the years of Tupac Shakur overtaking hip-hop, topping the charts was an anticlimax in his career. Kind of like the song that took over the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 last week.

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How Do You Want It was always wack to me
 
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