{"id":546677,"date":"2026-07-27T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546677\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:22:08","slug":"ella-langley-sets-a-record-with-choosin-texas-ties-harry-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546677\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley Sets a Record with &#8216;Choosin&#8217; Texas,&#8217; Ties Harry Styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a 15-week run atop the Hot 100, Langley&#8217;s &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221; has now passed songs by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ella-langley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ella-langley\" data-tag=\"ella-langley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Langley<\/a> may have lost her man to a woman from Texas, but she just caught <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/harry-styles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-styles\" data-tag=\"harry-styles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Styles<\/a>. Langley\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ella-langley-choosin-texas-interview-1235536275\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Choosin\u2019 Texas<\/a>\u201d (which, we think, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ella-langley-choosin-texas-song-of-the-summer-2026-1235598551\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is the Song of the Summer<\/a>) has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/ella-langley-choosin-texas-hot-100-number-one-15-weeks\/choosin-texas-streams-airplay-sales-15\/\">now surpassed<\/a> Whitney Houston\u2019s \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d and Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cWe Belong Together\u201d in chart domination, logging a record-setting 15 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, as the only non-holiday song by a woman to hold the title. She\u2019s now tied with Styles and \u201cAs It Was,\u201d and is seven weeks behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mariah-carey-christmas-rs-100-fourth-week-1107982\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d <\/a>with 22 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHow long will Langley be able to hold onto her record-setting run? We have approximately 14 weeks to go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mariah-carey-not-announce-christmas-time-1235121791\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">until Carey will declare it Christmas <\/a>season, when \u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d could pop back up on the charts. But that\u2019s plenty of time for Langley to rack up enough weeks to set an all-time record, regardless of genre or gender. Currently, she\u2019s in good position to surpass her country tourmate Morgan Wallen and \u201cLast Night\u201d (16 weeks) and even Lil Nas X (\u201cOld Town Road,\u201d with 19).<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBut the Alabama native does have other contenders at her heels. Taylor Swift and \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d is right behind at Number Two, followed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/stella-lefty-boston-history-father-tiktok-1235585127\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fast-rising Stella Lefty<\/a> and \u201cBoston,\u201d at Number Three, which seems to be making sizable jumps each week. (The catchy song was previously clocking in at Number Six.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLangely\u2019s Dandelion Tour, where she has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ella-langley-dandelion-tour-opening-acts-1235580940\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavily platforming other female artists<\/a>, stops at the BankNH Pavilion in Gilford, New Hampshire, on July 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a 15-week run atop the Hot 100, Langley&#8217;s &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221; has now passed songs by Whitney Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12733,156,10288,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-546677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ella-langley","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-styles","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}