Lola Young’s ‘Messy’ Hits No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay Chart

Lola Young’s “Messy” moves up two spots to No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart (dated May 17).

The song tops a second individual-format radio ranking, after it led Alternative Airplay for a week in April.

“Messy,” on Day One/Island Records and promoted to radio by Republic, becomes just the sixth song by a solo woman in a lead role or a female-fronted group to have hit No. 1 on both Pop Airplay and Alternative Airplay over the 32-plus years that the lists have coexisted.

(Among all acts, 28 songs have achieved such double-ups.)

Here’s a recap of the select six crossover hits:

Title, Artist, Year(s) Song Reached No. 1

As “Messy” marks Young’s debut hit, it’s the first career-establishing song by a woman with lead billing to have topped both Pop Airplay and Alternative Airplay since Lorde’s “Royals.” Of the six songs above, “Bring Me to Life,” with lead vocals by Amy Lee, likewise became Evanescence’s first charted Billboard hit.

“Messy” gained by 11% in pop radio plays May 2-8. (The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.) Leading supporters for the song among Pop Airplay reporters include KMVQ San Francisco and SiriusXM’s Hits 1, each with more than 1,300 plays to date, and WKSC Chicago (1,100).

All charts dated May 17 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, May 13.