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Lola Young
Solo artist Croydon United Kingdom
Lola Young is an artist from Croydon. Lola Young has 24 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 2024–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Messy”, which appears on 15 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Lola Young most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2025.
Lola Young, born in 2001 and raised in South London, has been making noise since she was a teenager: in 2016 she took the under-16 prize at Open Mic UK and made the finals of Got What It Takes?. Her debut single came in 2019, a clutch of EPs followed, and in 2021 she sang "Together in Electric Dreams" for that year's John Lewis Christmas advert while picking up a Brit Rising Star nomination.
My Mind Wanders and Sometimes Leaves Completely arrived in 2023, and This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway in 2024, but it was "Messy" that blew the door off. A raw, rattling, self-lacerating vocal over a lurching groove, it went viral on TikTok, topped several singles charts and won her the Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance. "Conceited" kept the spiky edge. She talks up Arctic Monkeys' AM, SZA's Ctrl, Joni Mitchell, Prince, Frank Ocean and Anderson .Paak as touchstones, and her songs take on rotten partners, sex, drug use, bisexuality, ADHD and her schizoaffective disorder with zero varnish.
The Ivor Novello Rising Star award and a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30 followed. Her third album, I'm Only F**king Myself, brought "One Thing", "D£aler" and "Post Sex Clarity", though her health slipped around its release, and after collapsing in the middle of a show she stepped away from public appearances for three months.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Lola Young on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Lola Young as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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