{"id":258172,"date":"2026-04-20T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:58:16","slug":"ella-langleys-choosin-texas-no-1-on-hot-100-for-seventh-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258172\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 No. 1 on Hot 100 for Seventh Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElla Langley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d tallies a seventh nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>. It became her first leader<\/a> on the chart in mid-February.<\/p>\n

\n\tConcurrently, parent album Dandelion sprouts at No. 1<\/a> on the Billboard 200<\/a>. Langley becomes just the second woman to lead the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously with country titles (defined as those that have hit Billboard\u2019s Hot Country Songs or Top Country Albums charts). Taylor Swift first doubled up<\/a> with \u201cAll Too Well (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d and Red (Taylor\u2019s Version) on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 for a week in November 2021. With Swift earning the honor via re-recorded<\/a> material, Langley is the first woman to claim the mark with all-new music.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, fellow Dandelion track \u201cBe Her\u201d bounds 8-4 for a new Hot 100 high, marking Langley\u2019s second top five hit. She becomes the first woman artist that has primarily recorded country music to chart her initial two top five songs in the region simultaneously.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the multimetric Hot Country Songs<\/a> chart, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d reigns for a 21st week and \u201cBe Her\u201d holds at its No. 2 best (with both in the top 10<\/a> on Country Airplay). Langley cowrote and coproduced both songs.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was such a crazy moment,\u201d the Louisiana native told Billboard<\/a> about finding out that \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d had first topped the Hot 100. \u201cMy label called, with my team on speaker, and it was just surreal. We loved the song when we wrote it, but none of us thought that it would be the song to do everything it\u2019s doing. It keeps giving us a reason to celebrate new \u00admilestones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRead on for details of this week\u2019s Hot 100 top 10, which again features a prominent presence by women artists overall.<\/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 April 25, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, April 21. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tLuminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/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 working promotion to country radio, drew 30.7 million official streams (up 15% week over week) and 42.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (essentially even) and sold 10,000 (up 16%) in the United States April 10-16.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe single continues for an eighth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs<\/a> chart; holds at No. 9 after reaching No. 8 on Radio Songs<\/a>; and keeps at No. 2 after five weeks atop Digital Song Sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\tTop 10: 8 Women, 7 Songs<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley leads eight women who claim seven spots in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d and \u201cBe Her,\u201d Olivia Dean likewise has her first two top 10s in the tier: \u201cMan I Need\u201d ranks at its No. 2 best for a seventh nonconsecutive week and \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d holds at its No. 6 high. They\u2019re joined by HUNTR\/X, whose EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI sing \u201cGolden,\u201d steady at No. 7 after eight weeks at No. 1 last August-October; PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson, with \u201cStateside,\u201d which lifts 9-8 after hitting No. 6, as it rules Hot Dance\/Pop Songs<\/a> for a ninth week; and Kehlani, with \u201cFolded,\u201d up 10-9 also after reaching No. 6.<\/p>\n

\n\tWomen have powered the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 of late, with the last five weeks, dating to the March 28 chart, sporting seven songs each by women. That span includes two Taylor Swift No. 1s: \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia\u201d and \u201cOpalite.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe run marks the best showing for women in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 since Swift almost single-handedly did even better last fall. She took over the entire top 10 (and top 13) on the Oct. 18, 2025, ranking, as her album The Life of a Showgirl made its chart start, with Sabrina Carpenter featured on the title cut, at No. 8. The following week brought nine entries by women acts, as \u201cGolden\u201d rejoined the top 10 (with only Alex Warren\u2019s \u201cOrdinary\u201d breaking up the all-women alliance that week).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe last five weeks and counting mark the longest streak of seven or more concurrent top 10s by women acts since an eight-week stretch in August-October 2014, which was highlighted by No. 1s for Swift (\u201cShake It Off\u201d) and Megan Trainor (\u201cAll About That Bass\u201d). In that span, women monopolized the top five for a record five consecutive weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn between that run and women\u2019s chart success since October, the Hot 100 dated Nov. 5, 2022, marked the first all-women top 10<\/a>, thanks to Swift and Lana Del Rey, a feat repeated<\/a> for a week in December 2023 via Swift, Doja Cat and SZA.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSeeing women at the top of the charts together is incredible,\u201d Langley further mused to Billboard<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a testament to the stories we\u2019re telling and how they\u2019re resonating with fans. I do hope it keeps opening doors for female artists in the future who\u2019ve been waiting for their turn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tRest of Top 10: Bruno & The Boys<\/p>\n

\n\tBruno Mars\u2019 \u201cI Just Might\u201d holds at No. 3 after three weeks atop the Hot 100 in January to mid-March. It leads Radio Songs for a ninth week, with 81.5 million in audience (up 1%), while topping the multimetric Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a> and Hot R&B Songs<\/a> charts for a 14th week each (as he extends his longest career command on Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs).<\/p>\n

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

\n\tRounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, BTS\u2019 \u201cSwim\u201d falls 5-10, three weeks after it led in its debut frame. It\u2019s No. 1 for a fourth week on Digital Song Sales (11,000, down 52%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d tallies a seventh nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9310,42310,6300,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-258172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-breaking","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\/258172","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=258172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}