Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante combine for a first on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, topping the Feb. 21-dated tally with “End of You.”
The coronation marks the first time that three women or women-led acts have led the list in collaboration in the ranking’s 45-year history.
In fact, the feat hadn’t been achieved by even two women at once, and the list of solo women who have topped the chart is not particularly robust; until this week, no solo women had reigned as a lead act since Nita Strauss with her David Draiman collaboration “Dead Inside” in 2021. At the time, Strauss had ended a three-decade drought for solo women at No. 1 in lead roles that dated to Alannah Myles with “Black Velvet” in 1990.
“End of You” marks the first Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1 for both Poppy and LaPlante, the latter the frontwoman of Spiritbox. Poppy previously snagged three top 10s on the chart, all since 2024, led by the No. 7-peaking “The Cost of Giving Up” last August. Spiritbox has charted two entries on the ranking since 2021, paced by “Perfect Soul” (No. 14, 2025).
Lee lands her first Mainstream Rock Airplay leader as a solo act, more than 20 years after her first such appearance on the list as featured on Seether’s “Broken” (No. 9, 2004). She has led as the vocalist of Evanescence once, via last year’s “Afterlife.”
Poppy, Lee and LaPlante become the first acts to earn maiden No. 1s on Mainstream Rock Airplay in 2026, and the first as lead acts since Architects with “Everything Ends” last September.
Concurrently, “End of You” rises 18-15 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.5 million audience impressions (up 15%) in the week ending Feb. 12, according to Luminate.
The song jumped 13-11 on the most recently published, multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (dated Feb. 14, reflecting data tracked Jan. 30-Feb. 5). In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 457,000 official U.S. streams.
“End of You” was released as a standalone single. Poppy has since followed with Empty Hands, which bowed at No. 7 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart dated Feb. 7 (11,000 equivalent album units).
All charts dated Feb. 21 will update Wednesday, Feb. 18 (one day later than usual, due to the Presidents’ Day holiday Monday, Feb. 16), on Billboard.com.
