#average familiarity

And it occurred to me that I am probably not interacting with the average citizen of Canada. I am literally the xkcd joke about experts wildly overestimating the average person's familiarity with their pet subject.

"It’s easy to forget that the average Canadian probably only knows about the Battle of Queenston Heights and the Siege of Detroit."

I was listening to a one-hit wonder from the 1990s, "The Mighty K.C." by For Squirrels. And it turns out that "one-hit wonder" may be rounding up a bit? According to a secondary source, it hit the top 100 chart for 4 weeks, peaking at #70. Would you call that a "hit"? Selling 100,000 albums isn't shabby. When I mentioned it to someone else who remembers 1990s music, she said she only knew the song because it occasionally comes up in my car playlist.