{"id":225973,"date":"2026-03-29T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225973\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:34:37","slug":"ella-langleys-choosin-texas-no-1-on-hot-100-for-fourth-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225973\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ No. 1 on Hot 100 for Fourth Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElla Langley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d holds for a historic fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>. The song first led<\/a> in mid-February and added its second week on top at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d solely claims the most weeks ever spent atop the Hot 100 for a song by a woman that also hit No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Hot Country Songs<\/a> chart, one-upping Taylor Swift\u2019s three-week Hot 100 reign with \u201cWe Are Never Ever Getting Back Together\u201d in 2012.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeyond \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d and \u201cWe Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,\u201d three No. 1 country hits by women topped the Hot 100 for two weeks each: Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cTexas Hold \u2018Em\u201d in 2024 and Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201cIslands in the Stream,\u201d with Kenny Rogers (1983), and \u201c9 to 5\u201d (1981).<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso of note among country classics by women: Parton wrote \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d with Whitney Houston\u2019s cover ruling the Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 1992-93 (after Parton sent two of her versions to No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, in 1974 and 1982). Plus, Debby Boone\u2019s \u201cYou Light Up My Life\u201d dominated the Hot 100 for 10 weeks and hit No. 4 on Hot Country Songs in 1977 and Bobbie Gentry\u2019s \u201cOde to Billie Joe\u201d led the Hot 100 for four weeks in 1967 and made it to No. 17 on Hot Country Songs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d concurrently crowns Hot Country Songs for a 17th week.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Olivia Dean<\/a> charts her second career hit in the tier as \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d lifts 11-9. It joins \u201cMan I Need,\u201d which keeps at its No. 2 high.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the full rundown of this week\u2019s Hot 100 top 10 below.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated March 28, 2026, will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 24. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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\t\u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 Streams, Airplay & Sales<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d on SAWGOD\/Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers promoting it to country radio, drew 21.8 million official streams (down 4% week over week) and 43.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 3%) and sold 6,000 (down 1%) in the United States March 13-19.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe single rebounds a spot for a fourth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs<\/a> chart; repeats at its No. 9 best on Radio Songs<\/a>; and dips to No. 2 after five weeks atop Digital Song Sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\tDean Doubles Up in Top 10<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Dean earns her second Hot 100 top 10 as \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d rises 11-9. The song drew 11.6 million streams (down 11%) and 32.2 million in airplay audience (up 20%) and sold 2,000 (up 13%) in the tracking week.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, the London-born singer-songwriter\u2019s \u201cMan I Need\u201d holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as it logs its fifth nonconsecutive week as runner-up (the most weeks for a No. 2-peaking title by a woman in a lead role since Ariana Grande\u2019s \u201cProblem,\u201d featuring Iggy Azalea, also held the rank for five weeks in 2014; the last such song by a woman and no co-billed artists? Lady Gaga\u2019s seven-week No. 2 anthem \u201cBad Romance\u201d in 2009-10).<\/p>\n

\n\tWith \u201cMan I Need\u201d having first hit the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 in November, Dean has notched her first two top 10s in less than five months. That\u2019s the fastest accumulation of two initial top 10s for a solo woman since her Island Records labelmate Sabrina Carpenter tallied her first two with \u201cEspresso\u201d in April 2024 and \u201cPlease Please Please\u201d less than two months later (with, as with Dean this week, both songs in the top 10 together at the time).<\/p>\n

\tRest of Top 10: \u2018I Just Might\u2019 & More<\/p>\n

\n\tBruno Mars\u2019 \u201cI Just Might\u201d keeps at No. 3 after three nonconsecutive weeks atop the Hot 100 in January to mid-March. It leads Radio Songs for a fourth week with 81.5 million in audience (up 7%) \u2014 becoming the first song to surpass 80 million in weekly airplay reach since Shaboozey\u2019s \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy)\u201d (82 million, Sept. 7, 2024).<\/p>\n

\n\tPlus, \u201cI Just Might\u201d is No. 1 on the multimetric Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a> and Hot R&B Songs<\/a> charts for a milestone 10th week each. On the former, it ties \u201cThat\u2019s What I Like\u201d (2017) for Mars\u2019 longest command among his five leaders.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlex Warren\u2019s \u201cOrdinary\u201d ascends 5-4 on the Hot 100 after 10 weeks at No. 1 last June-August.<\/p>\n

\n\tHUNTR\/X\u2019s \u201cGolden\u201d climbs 7-5 on the Hot 100 following eight weeks at No. 1 last August-October. It sports an 11% gain to 12.3 million streams in the week ending March 19, after the trio performed<\/a> it and it won the Academy Award March 15 for best original song, while parent movie KPop Demon Hunters took home the Oscar for best animated feature. It also soars 9-1 for a sixth week atop Digital Song Sales (6,000, up 185%).<\/p>\n

\n\tPinkPantheress\u2019 \u201cStateside,\u201d with Zara Larsson, is steady at its No. 6 Hot 100 high, as it adds a fifth week at No. 1 on Hot Dance\/Pop Songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor Swift\u2019s \u201cOpalite\u201d rises 10-7 on the Hot 100, a month after it led for one week, and \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d holds at No. 8, after it began her career-best 10 weeks in charge of the chart upon its debut in October and led through January.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Harry Styles\u2019 \u201cAmerican Girls\u201d falls to No. 10 a week after it debuted at No. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d holds for a historic fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9310,87586,42310,6300,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-225973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-breaking","tag-chart-beat","tag-genre-country","tag-music-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}