Lola Young has topped the RCS Media Monitors 2025 Year-End Top 100 Airplay Chart with her multi-Platinum single Messy. It was the women of the Universal stables in the top five with Gracie Abrams‘ That’s So True at #2 and Chappell Roan‘s Pink Pony Club at #4. Alex Warren‘s Ordinary was #3.
Twenty-two singles by Australian artists made the Year-End Top 100, three more than last year, led by Sonny Fodera’s Somedays at #5 and last year’s No 1 act CYRIL’s take on Paramore’s hit Still Into You at #8.
While Sabrina Carpenter didn’t make the Top 10, she did have five singles in the Top 100 (Bed Chem, Busy Woman, Taste, Manchild and Tears). Sydney’s 2Day FM led the country with 4,304 spins for Carpenter. Messy, which ended up spending 10 non-consecutive weeks at the summit of the weekly rankings, was heard more than 26,000 times and most played on Brisbane’s Nova 106.9 with 1,237 spins for the track this year.
More than 10% of acts in the top 100 were with Independent record labels. There were a lot of songs from 2024 and classic hits including Bruce Springsteen’s Dancing In The Dark, with Gold 104.3 giving it 350 spins, and Mr Brightside for The Killers which is likely to appear in every yearly 100 for eternity.
