Abrams’s ‘That’s So True‘, which charted last week as number three has fallen to the fourteenth position, while ‘Apt’ by Rosé and Bruno Mars currently charts at number eight. While we predicted last week that Lady Gaga’s ‘Abracadabra’ would challenge Young’s ‘Messy’ for number one, the America Singer has yet to climb to that position and currently charts at number three.

1. Lola Young – ‘Messy‘

It is British pop sensation Lola Young’s fourth week as number one, after climbing charts for ten weeks. The song originally debuted at number 87, weeks after it was released on streaming platforms; its success is mainly to be attributed to its popularity on the TikTok platform, where it went viral last year. It is the artist’s first and only song to achieve the number one position, as well as her first song to ever chart.

2. Kendrick Lamar – ‘Not Like Us‘

Lamar’s latest album, ‘GNX‘, debuted at number one in the UK upon its release. ‘Not Like Us’ originally debuted on UK charts in May of last year at number 10 and eventually fell out of the top 20, charting at 94 two weeks ago. But with Lamar’s recent (and widely discussed) Super Bowl halftime performance, the song has once again climbed charts.

3. Lady Gaga – ‘Abracadabra‘

Last week, we had predicted that Gaga’s spell with ‘Abracadabra’ would claim the number one position over Young’s ‘Messy’, since it has debuted at number six with only a couple days of chart units. However, ‘Abracadabra’  has still to climb a couple positions before it can mark the artist’s fifth number one song.

4. Chappell Roan – ‘Pink Pony Club‘

After 13 weeks charting in the UK, this is ‘Pink Pony Club’s peak. The song was originally released in 2023, but it gained more and more popularity throughout the past year when Chappell Roan’s debuted album ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess‘ peaked at number one. If the song managed to climb up the charts and reach number one, it would mark the artist’s first song to achieve the position.

5. Chrystal – ‘The Days‘

‘The Days’ is Chrystal’s first song to make it on the UK’s Official Songs Charts. It debuted at number 96 in late 2024 and has since been climbing up the charts, peaking at number four for three consecutive weeks. The song was originally released on TikTok, where it gained world wide attention.

“I want to say thank you so much for making Messy Number 1 on the Official Chart! I love you all so much, you guys mean the absolute world to me. I’m so happy!”

‘Messy’ scored its second week topping charts with 6.2 million streams over the last seven days.

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24 years old Young first rose to fame in 2021, when her cover of Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder’s ‘Together In Electric Dreams’ became the soundtrack for John Lewis’s Christmas commercial of that year; in the same year, she was nominated for a BRITs Rising Star Award and the following year, in 2022, she was placed at number four on the BBC’s Sound of the Year list.

Young’s debut album, released in 2019, is titled ‘Intro‘ and it was followed by several singles and EPs. In 2023, her second album ‘My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely‘ was released; despite failing to appear in the Official Album Charts, the album peaked at 37 on the Official Physical Albums Chart which looks at the amount of physical copies of an album sold rather than streaming units.

The chart-topping single ‘Messy’ was released as the lead single for Young’s latest release, an 11-tracks album titled ‘This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway‘, which will likely make its debut on Official Albums Charts in the upcoming weeks. The album has in fact re-entered the Official Albums Download Charts a couple of weeks ago, after it first debuted at number 75 upon its release.

In a recent interview with BBC, Young has shared the backstory of the song and stated it was really personal to here, saying:

“The response has been amazing and it’s been really exciting to see all the love that Messy has been receiving, I love the song, it’s a song I wrote that’s really personal and really important to me. So I’m really happy that it’s resonating so much.”

In the same interview, she then went on to say that the meaning of the song is contradictory, and the it feels like “basically like you’re not enough for somebody and also in turn not enough for yourself”.

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One thing about music, is that it will always have new faces and voices; specifically in the UK, there are many awards and prizes reserved for these new artists that begin to make their way in the hearts and charts of the UK: BBC’s Sound of… Award, the BRITs’ “New Rising Star” category. With British artists like Adele and Sam Fender winning these in previous years, and international stars like Chappell Roan being nominated, UK awards for emerging artists are always spot on to anticipate which new artist will achieve greatness.

Lola Young is an artist from London who has had a very exciting last few weeks: her latest single titled “Messy” has granted her a commercial breakout that her career had long been awaiting after going super-viral on TikTok. It reached position number seven on UK charts over the December period, where usually it is less likely that new artists climb charts since these are mostly taken by Christmas songs. But Lola Young did it, and the single originally released in May and part of her second studio album “This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway” became a radio hit after a quick climb on charts that begun in late November. The music video currently counts over five million views, and it is clear that 2025 will be a big year for Young

Addison Rae is next on the list, after her single “Diet Pepsi” has convinced the world that she is in fact meant to be a pop star. Rae’s beginnings in the music industry were arguably underwhelming, as the artist was overshadowed by her TikTok persona and the public did not believe much in her possibilities. While her first singles, “I Got It Bad” and “Obsessed” failed to chart in the UK’s top 100, everything changed after the release of “Diet Pepsi”, under the label Columbia, which highlights Rae’s talent as a singer and is exactly the type of music the makes numbers in the market nowadays; the song peaked at number 10 in the UK and was followed by another release, “Aquamarine“, which peaked at 45. The lights are shining on Rae in 2025.

Lastly, Myles Smith makes the list after winning the BRIT’s Rising Star Award Title earlier this month. His single “Stargazing” was his first to reach the UK’s top ten peaking at number four, and remains one of the best releases of the year, then followed by his biggest debut yet with the song “Nice To Meet Ya” which peaked at number twelve and stayed on charts for six weeks. Great things are awaiting Smith in 2025.