Album · Lola Young
This Wasn’t Meant for You Anyway by Lola Young
This Wasn’t Meant for You Anyway is an album by Lola Young, released in 2024. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 18 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Messy”, on 15 lists and voted number one once.
This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway, Lola Young's second album, arrived on Island Records on 21 June 2024, hard on the heels of her 2023 debut, My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely. The South London singer mixes indie pop, soul and big-hearted pop here, with a voice that can go from a smoky murmur to a full-throated bellow inside a single chorus.
"Messy" was the sixth single and the one that blew the doors off: it went viral on TikTok, went to number one in the UK, pulled the album into the top 20 and won Young the Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 68th Grammy Awards, where she was also up for Best New Artist. "Conceited" followed it onto the charts. Reviewers loved the album, and it's easy to hear why: the writing is blunt, funny and unguarded.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from This Wasn’t Meant for You Anyway on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.