One-T

ONE-T
ONE-T
Origin	France
Genres	Hip hop, pop, Electronic music
Years active	2001 - 2006, 2022 - Present
Labels	Minority
Members	Eddy Gronfier; Thomas Pieds

One-T are a French animated band created in 2000 by Eddy Gronfier and Thomas Pieds. Eddy Gronfier produces the music while Thomas Pieds creates the artwork and visuals. They were successful across Europe, especially France and Germany, with their 2003 hit single "The Magic Key", but since then were not able to repeat that success and remained a one-hit wonder.

History

One-T made their first appearance in France during the summer of 2001, with the release of the single "Music Is The One-T ODC". The single was ranked the 82nd best-selling single over the year of 2001. It was followed shortly by the single "Bein' a Star".

One-T returned to the dance music scene in the summer of 2003 with their single "The Magic Key", which introduced One-T's best friend, Cool-T, as the rap singer in the song. The title reached 9th place of the single charts and was ranked the 22nd best-selling single for 2003.^{[clarification needed]} "The Magic Key" was also well received in Germany, Poland and Austria, where it reached fifth place of the single charts, and Denmark, where it reached fourth place. Their first full-length album, The One-T ODC, was released in July 2003.

Several singles followed over the years, including the theme song for the 2004 film Starsky & Hutch, and "Kamasutra", released in early 2005. However, none of them were very successful, and they remained a one-hit wonder in most parts of Europe.

One-T's second studio album, The One-T's ABC, was released in early 2006 as a digital album, and was available only on a few legal downloading sites, such as iTunes. In 2007, the album was released physically and garnered much success in France and the rest of Europe.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the musical group One-T, in July 2022 album The One-T ODC was remastered. Also, a music video for the remastered song was released: "The Magic Key 2", together with Boogie Fre$h.

Creators

The cartoon characters in this band were created to conceal the real people behind this project. The people behind this project are Eddy Gronfier, responsible for the musical part of the project, is a former radio host (on NRJ, Fun Radio, Maxximum, M40 Rock ....), jingle producer (on RTL, Skyrock, M40, Radio Scoop ...), radio director (The monsters on Skyrock, Charly and Lulu on RTL 2 ...), and composer/ remixer of One-T, and Thomas Pieds, author of the concept and the song lyrics, is also the director of the One-T music videos. Before One-T, Thomas was already directing music videos, TV ads and TV series.^[1]

Discography

Albums

Year	Chart Statistics	Singles
2003	The One-T ODC Studio Album Released: July 2003 French Peak Position: #72^[2]	"Music Is The One-T ODC" "Bein' a Star" "The Magic Key"
2006	The One-T's ABC Studio Album Released: 2006 (Digital), 2007 (physical)	"Kamasutra" "Hamburguesa" "U!!!" "Tomorrow's War"
2022	The One-T ODC (20th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition) • Studio Album Released: 2022	• "The Magic Key 2" ft. Boogie Fre$h

Singles

Chart Statistics
One-T Music Is The One-T ODC (aka Odyssey) Released: July 2001 Peak position (France): #12 Certification: Silver Sells: 200 000 Trivia: The song contains a theme from "Má hra" (from their 1971 album Nová syntéza) by Blue Effect, a Czechoslovakian progressive rock band.
One-T Bein' A Star Released: November 2002 Peak position (France) : #59 Trivia: The song contains a theme from "Má hra" (from their 1971 album Nová syntéza) by Blue Effect, a Czechoslovakian progressive rock band.
One-T + Cool-T The Magic Key Released: July 2003 Peak Position: #9 (Fr.), #7 (Swi.), #5 (Ger.), #5 (Pol.), #5 (Aut.), #4 (Dan.) Certification: Gold (France, Germany) Sells: 247 000 (France), 250 000 (Germany) Trivia: The song contains a theme from "Má hra" (from their 1971 album Nová syntéza) by Blue Effect, a Czechoslovakian progressive rock band. No. 3 of the most played songs on European radio and television during 2003 summer. One of the longest-running singles in 2003 French Charts (41 weeks).
Cool-T Starsky & Hutch Released: May 2004 Peak Position: #16 (Fr.) Trivia: This song was used as the main song from the 2004 Starsky & Hutch movie. It is the first song ever released by One-T's best friend (Cool-T). One-T produced the single.
Cool-T Kamasutra Released: November 2004 Peak Position: #40 (Fr.) Trivia: One-T produced this single.
One-T feat. Fat-T & Cool-T Hamburguesa Released: 2005 (Digital Single only)
One-T U!!! Released: November 2005 (Digital Single only) Trivia: The song contains a theme from "Má hra" (from their 1971 album Nová syntéza) by Blue Effect, a Czechoslovakian progressive rock band.
One-T + Cool-T Tomorrow's War Released: April 2006 (Digital Single) 2007 (Physical Single)
One-T + Cool-T ft. Boogie Fre$h The Magic Key 2 • Released: July 2022
One-T, Cool-T ft. Boogie Fre$h Check Up Released: 03/17/2023
One-T, Artespo, DOMI Don't Leave My Head (LaLaLa) Released: 12/1/2023
One-T ft. Boogie Fre$h Superstar Released: 06/14/2024

References

^ Keazor, Henry (2014-06-30). Video thrills the radio star : Musikvideos: Geschichte, Themen, Analysen. Wübbena, Thorsten (3., erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage ed.). Bielefeld, Germany. ISBN 9783839407288. OCLC 905856163.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ lescharts.com - One-T - The One-T ODC

External links

Official Website (Internet Archive)
One-T's channel on YouTube
One-T at AllMusic
One-T discography at Discogs
One-T on Spotify
One-T on Deezer

[1] Keazor, Henry (2014-06-30). Video thrills the radio star : Musikvideos: Geschichte, Themen, Analysen. Wübbena, Thorsten (3., erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage ed.). Bielefeld, Germany. ISBN 9783839407288. OCLC 905856163.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[2] scharts.com - One-T - The One-T ODC

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