Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” enters the winners circle on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart, jumping three spots to the top of the April 12-dated ranking. She leads the list for a second time, after “Good Luck, Babe!” hit No. 1 for a week last September.
“Pink Pony Club,” on KRA/Amusement/Island Records and promoted to radio by Republic, gained by 7% in plays March 28-April 3. (The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.)
Notably, “Pink Pony Club” reigns (reins?) after it was first released five years and one day ago, on Atlantic Records, on April 3, 2020. It was subsequently reissued on Sept. 23, 2023, on the singer-songwriter’s debut album on Island, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. The song has additionally risen to No. 5 on the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100. It has drawn 479 million official on-demand streams and 382 million in radio audience and sold 120,000 downloads in the U.S. through March 27.
Chappell Roan co-wrote “Pink Pony Club” with Daniel Nigro, who solely produced it. The former also co-penned her first Pop Airplay No. 1. Nigro adds his fourth leader as both a co-writer and co-producer. He previously topped the chart in those roles via “Good Luck, Babe!” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U” in 2021.
Chappell Roan is concurrently scaling Pop Airplay with newest single “The Giver.” The stand-alone release pushes 35-27 (up 68% in plays). It also rises 36-32 on Adult Pop Airplay (where “Pink Pony Club” trots 9-8) and is gaining under the Country Airplay chart.
All charts dated April 12 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, April 8.
