Pop star Chappell Roan has won BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2025 – the station's annual poll to identify music's biggest rising stars. Her win caps a wild 12 months in which she rocketed from relative obscurity to the top of the charts,

Chappell Roan has come first in the BBC Radio 1 Sound of 2025 list, an annual poll that recognizes rising artists with "the best chance of mainstream success." The pop sensation, born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz,