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Alex Warren overtakes Lola Young to land the biggest single of the year so far with "Ordinary"
02 July 2025
There’s nothing Ordinary about Alex Warren as he overtakes earlier frontrunner Lola Young to become the UK’s biggest song of 2025 so far, the Official Charts Company can confirm.
Racking up 1.095m chart units across the first half of 2025 alone, including 128 million streams, the chart-topping track enjoyed masses of chart success since its February release. Earlier this month the breakout Californian singer-songwriter secured an unprecedented 12th week at Number 1 in June 2025 with Official Charts confirming Alex Warren as the US artist with the most consecutive weeks at Number 1 in Official Singles Chart history. Securing the feat, he trumped Slim Whitman’s Rose Marie, which managed 11 consecutive weeks at the summit in 1955.
The song became Alex Warren's first UK Top 10 hit, and on 21 March 2025 reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, with Alex collecting his first Number 1 Award from Official Charts.
Very close behind at Number 2 is Lola Young with her self-proclaimed “ADHD anthem” Messy. Racking up 996,000 chart units in 2025, including 113 million streams and over 33,000 downloads – Messy claims the UK’s most-downloaded track of the year so far.
Messy originally hit the Top 10 for the first time on the Official Christmas Chart in December, defying the odds as one of the few non-Christmas songs to earn its place in the festive Top 10. In 2025, it quickly flew up the upper echelons to Number 1, where it stayed for four consecutive weeks.
In third place is ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ pop-punk party starter APT., which is sitting on 942,000 chart units so far this year and leads the way as the most-streamed music video on the Official Singles Chart in the first half of 2025, with 22.3 million video streams under its belt.
Coming in 4th place is Gracie Abrams single That’s So True, which is from her album The Secret of Us which was released in 2024. It has been flying high in the charts most recently and now sits at 820,000 chart units in 2025 so far and 1.25 million in total since its release.
Sitting in 5th place is the Midwest Princess herself Chappell Roan, taking the spot with her iconic track Pink Pony Club (812,000 chart units so far in 2025).
Bruno Mars impressively also banks a second placement in the year-to-date Top 10 with the Lady Gaga team-up Die With A Smile, landing at Number 6 with 760,000 chart units. The first of two placings for Lady Gaga, as Abracadabra, the second single from latest album MAYHEM also earns a place in the Top 40 (26).
Filling out the Top 10 is dance anthem The Days by Chrystal (7), Benson Boone lands at Number 8 with Beautiful Things, while Billie Eilish's Birds of a Feather (9) and Chappell Roan’s Good Luck Babe complete the Top 10.
Further down, Sabrina Carpenter, whose Short n’ Sweet arena tour hit the UK in March, dominates with five tracks making the list. Espresso (13), Taste (14), Please Please Please (29) Bed Chem (30), and 2025 deluxe edition track Busy Woman (31), all of which feature on Short N’ Sweet – the UK’s biggest album of 2025.
Teddy Swims banks a hat-trick of spots with Lose Control (12), Bad Dreams (15) and The Door (18), while one of the biggest new releases of 2025, Tate McRae’s Sports Car breaks into the Top 20 of the year so far, the song spent 13 weeks in the Official Singles Chart Top 10 between March and May.
Other fresh 2025 releases to make the cut include Show Me Love (27) by WizTheMc and Bees & Honey, Doechii’s Anxiety (32), and Azizam (37) – the lead single from Ed Sheeran’s forthcoming studio album Play.
Racking up 1.095m chart units across the first half of 2025 alone, including 128 million streams, the chart-topping track enjoyed masses of chart success since its February release. Earlier this month the breakout Californian singer-songwriter secured an unprecedented 12th week at Number 1 in June 2025 with Official Charts confirming Alex Warren as the US artist with the most consecutive weeks at Number 1 in Official Singles Chart history. Securing the feat, he trumped Slim Whitman’s Rose Marie, which managed 11 consecutive weeks at the summit in 1955.
The song became Alex Warren's first UK Top 10 hit, and on 21 March 2025 reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, with Alex collecting his first Number 1 Award from Official Charts.
Very close behind at Number 2 is Lola Young with her self-proclaimed “ADHD anthem” Messy. Racking up 996,000 chart units in 2025, including 113 million streams and over 33,000 downloads – Messy claims the UK’s most-downloaded track of the year so far.
Messy originally hit the Top 10 for the first time on the Official Christmas Chart in December, defying the odds as one of the few non-Christmas songs to earn its place in the festive Top 10. In 2025, it quickly flew up the upper echelons to Number 1, where it stayed for four consecutive weeks.
In third place is ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ pop-punk party starter APT., which is sitting on 942,000 chart units so far this year and leads the way as the most-streamed music video on the Official Singles Chart in the first half of 2025, with 22.3 million video streams under its belt.
Coming in 4th place is Gracie Abrams single That’s So True, which is from her album The Secret of Us which was released in 2024. It has been flying high in the charts most recently and now sits at 820,000 chart units in 2025 so far and 1.25 million in total since its release.
Sitting in 5th place is the Midwest Princess herself Chappell Roan, taking the spot with her iconic track Pink Pony Club (812,000 chart units so far in 2025).
Bruno Mars impressively also banks a second placement in the year-to-date Top 10 with the Lady Gaga team-up Die With A Smile, landing at Number 6 with 760,000 chart units. The first of two placings for Lady Gaga, as Abracadabra, the second single from latest album MAYHEM also earns a place in the Top 40 (26).
Filling out the Top 10 is dance anthem The Days by Chrystal (7), Benson Boone lands at Number 8 with Beautiful Things, while Billie Eilish's Birds of a Feather (9) and Chappell Roan’s Good Luck Babe complete the Top 10.
Further down, Sabrina Carpenter, whose Short n’ Sweet arena tour hit the UK in March, dominates with five tracks making the list. Espresso (13), Taste (14), Please Please Please (29) Bed Chem (30), and 2025 deluxe edition track Busy Woman (31), all of which feature on Short N’ Sweet – the UK’s biggest album of 2025.
Teddy Swims banks a hat-trick of spots with Lose Control (12), Bad Dreams (15) and The Door (18), while one of the biggest new releases of 2025, Tate McRae’s Sports Car breaks into the Top 20 of the year so far, the song spent 13 weeks in the Official Singles Chart Top 10 between March and May.
Other fresh 2025 releases to make the cut include Show Me Love (27) by WizTheMc and Bees & Honey, Doechii’s Anxiety (32), and Azizam (37) – the lead single from Ed Sheeran’s forthcoming studio album Play.
