Ella Langley\u2019s hit song Choosin\u2019 Texas has made Billboard Hot 100 history, spending 23 weeks on the chart and breaking the record for the longest-running No 1 song in the chart\u2019s 68-year old history.<\/p>\n
The track, which was released last October as the lead single on the 27-year-old singer and songwriter\u2019s album Dandelion, has surpassed Mariah Carey\u2019s All I Want for Christmas Is You, which topped the charts for 22 weeks.<\/p>\n
Choosin\u2019 Texas first appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 last November. Co-written by Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor, the heartbreak track\u2019s success has been described<\/a> by Langley as \u201csurreal\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI think this has been the biggest moment for me, where I\u2019ve seen where fans can change your career. For so long, you\u2019re like, \u2018Alright, one song at a time, one record at a time.\u2019 But with this one song \u2013 and they\u2019ve done it continuously for me \u2013 but really with \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 \u2026 man, have they taken ahold of it. It\u2019s wild,\u201d Langley told Billboard in an interview earlier this year.<\/p>\n The song follows a Tennessee-based narrator watching her partner leave for another woman in Texas, transforming a familiar story of heartbreak into one that occurs not only between three people but between two places.<\/p>\n \u201cJust when I thought I got him to fall in love with Tennessee \/ I shoulda known better than to take him back to Abilene \/ I put him right back into her arms \/ I wasn\u2019t a match for that kind of spark,\u201d Langley sings in the opening verse.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s from Texas, I can tell by the way \/ He\u2019s two-steppin\u2019 \u2018round the room \/ And judgin\u2019 by the smile that\u2019s written on his face \/ There\u2019s nothin\u2019 I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n Other country references in the song include \u201cSmoky Mountain rain,\u201d \u201cMemphis blues,\u201d and Tennessee\u2019s famous Jack Daniel\u2019s whiskey.<\/p>\n