Zayn does what he didn't with One Direction: crown the top 40 radio airplay tally.
Zayn zips from No. 3 to No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Songs radio airplay chart (dated May 7) with "Pillowtalk."
Notably, with his first entry on the mainstream top 40-based radio ranking, he achieves an honor that he didn't as a member of One Direction. The boy band tallied three Pop Songs top 10s before Zayn departed the act in March 2015, climbing as high as No. 3 with its first entry, "What Makes You Beautiful," in 2012. (Post-Zayn, 1D added its fourth and fifth top 10s, "Drag Me Down" and "Perfect," which reached Nos. 6 and 10, respectively.)
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