So far, all of the TV themes that reached #1 have come courtesy of one-hit wonders. Our final example comes from a one-song wonder.

Fictional band The Heights appeared on a TV show of the same name, a musical drama that had a four-month run on Fox in 1992. ‘How Do You Talk to an Angel,’ performed by cast member Jamie Walters, became the show’s theme song and landed in Billboard’s top spot for a couple of weeks in November of that year.

While the song was successful, the show wasn’t as lucky. It was canceled a week after ‘How Do You Talk to an Angel’ dropped from #1.

This was only the second TV theme with vocals to reach #1, and the first chart-topper by a fictional band since The Partridge Family’s ‘I Think I Love You’ in 1970.

This is also currently the last TV theme to top Billboard’s Hot 100. That’s 32 years and counting. No TV theme from the 21st century has even reached the Hot 100 in any position. The most recent was The Rembrandt’s ‘Ill Be There For You’ (theme song of Friends), which reached #17 in 1995.

I suspect, given the proliferation of streaming and the fragmentation of viewing habits, that no TV theme song will ever reach the necessary mass popularity to hit #1 again.

Can you think of any recent themes that might have had a shot in an earlier era?