{"id":298480,"date":"2026-05-18T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298480\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:36:15","slug":"ella-langleys-choosin-texas-no-1-on-hot-100-for-10th-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298480\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 No. 1 on Hot 100 for 10th Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElla Langley<\/a> adds her latest week of chart history<\/a> as \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d tallies a 10th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>. Only 4% of all leaders over the survey\u2019s 67-year archives have reached the milestone \u2014 and the achievement is even rarer among country hits.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe song, which tops multimetric Hot Country Songs<\/a> chart for a 25th week, is one of just four songs to have ruled the Hot 100 for 10 or more weeks and made the Hot Country Songs top five; notably, three have done so in the last three-plus years. Shaboozey\u2019s \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy)\u201d led the lists for 19 and 45 weeks, respectively, in 2024-25, following Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cLast Night\u201d (16 and 25 weeks in 2023). Debby Boone\u2019s \u201cYou Light Up My Life\u201d became the first song ever to dominate the Hot 100 for double-digit weeks (10) and hit No. 4 on Hot Country Songs in 1977.<\/p>\n

\n\t(Honorable mention: Dolly Parton wrote \u201c I Will Always Love You,\u201d which Whitney Houston took to No. 1 on the Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 1992-93. Parton sent two versions of the beloved ballad to the top of Hot Country Songs, in 1974 and 1982.)<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley sets another mark on the latest Hot 100: \u201cBe Her\u201d holds at its No. 2 high, making her the first artist known for primarily recording country music ever to claim chart\u2019s the top two spots simultaneously for multiple weeks. Among all core-country acts, she passes Wallen, who doubled up for a week last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong other highlights in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Bruno Mars hits a new career radio high with \u201cI Just Might\u201d and Olivia Dean becomes the first British woman ever to chart her first two top five hits in the region together \u2014 a feat that among all artists was first earned by The Beatles.<\/p>\n

\n\tRead on for details of the entire top 10 on this week\u2019s Hot 100.<\/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 May 23, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 19. 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 promoting it to country radio, totaled 27.8 million official streams (up 4% week over week), 48.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1%) and 7,000 sold (down 11%) in the United States May 8-14.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe single, which became Langley\u2019s first Hot 100 No. 1 in mid-February, logs an 11th week atop the Streaming Songs<\/a> chart; rises a spot to a new No. 5 best on Radio Songs<\/a>; and holds for a seventh week atop Digital Song Sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\tTwo-Steppin,\u2019 Two Times<\/p>\n

\n\tThanks to \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d and \u201cBe Her,\u201d Langley becomes the 20th act to hold Nos. 1 and 2 on the Hot 100 simultaneously. Only four solo women are in the exclusive club, with she and Taylor Swift the only ones to do so as lead artists on both of their respective hits.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s a recap of all the acts that have taken over the Hot 100\u2019s top two, ranked by most occurrences:<\/p>\n

10 weeks: The Beatles<\/p>\n

8 weeks: OutKast<\/p>\n

7 weeks: Drake<\/p>\n

6 weeks: Justin Bieber, T.I.<\/p>\n

5 weeks: Ashanti, Iggy Azalea, Bee Gees, Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams<\/p>\n

4 weeks: The Black Eyed Peas, Diddy, Nelly<\/p>\n

3 weeks: 50 Cent, Ja Rule, Kendrick Lamar, Usher<\/p>\n

2 weeks: Akon, DaBaby, Ella Langley<\/p>\n

\tDean Meets The Beatles<\/p>\n

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\n\tOlivia Dean charts her first two Hot 100 top 10s in the top five for the first time: \u201cMan I Need\u201d rebounds 4-3, after reaching No. 2, and \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d ascends a place to a new No. 5 high.<\/p>\n

\n\tDean, from London, becomes the first British woman to place her first two top five Hot 100 hits in the bracket simultaneously. Among all Englishwomen at any career point, she\u2019s the first to manage the accomplishment since Adele with \u201cEasy on Me\u201d and \u201cOh My God\u201d (the most recent of her six top five hits) in December 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe only British acts overall to each chart their first two top five titles, or more, on the Hot 100 in that range simultaneously? Dean, Herman\u2019s Hermits (for one week in 1965) and The Beatles (eight weeks, 1964). The Peter Noone-fronted Herman\u2019s Hermits did so with \u201cCan\u2019t You Hear My Heartbeat\u201d and \u201cSilhouettes\u201d after the Fab Four initiated the stat with the iconic \u201cI Want To Hold Your Hand\u201d and \u201cShe Loves You.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBruno\u2019s Best at Radio<\/p>\n

\n\tBruno Mars\u2019 \u201cI Just Might\u201d lifts 5-4 after three weeks atop the Hot 100 between January and March. It leads Radio Songs for a 13th week, with 72.6 million in audience (down 5%), while topping the multimetric Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a> and Hot R&B Songs<\/a> charts for an 18th week each. Mars extends his longest career command atop Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs and rewrites his longest reign on Radio Songs, surpassing his featured turn on Mark Ronson\u2019s \u201cUptown Funk!\u201d in 2015.<\/p>\n

\n\tMars also returns to the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 with \u201cRisk It All\u201d (15-8), which debuted at its No. 4 peak in March. Following the May 8 release of its Spanish version, it\u2019s up 19% to 11.2 million streams, 11% to 38.8 million in radio reach and 70% to 2,000 sold.<\/p>\n

\tRest of Top 10: \u2018Ordinary\u2019 & More<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Langley, Dean and Mars each infusing the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 with two hits, Alex Warren\u2019s \u201cOrdinary\u201d rises 7-6 after 10 weeks at No. 1 last June-August.<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Rodrigo\u2019s \u201cDrop Dead\u201d dips 3-7 on the Hot 100, three weeks after it debuted at No. 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tKehlani\u2019s \u201cFolded\u201d holds at No. 9 after reaching No. 6 on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Tame Impala and JENNIE\u2019s \u201cDracula\u201d repeats at its No. 10 high, as it leads the multimetric Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a> chart for a 19th week and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs<\/a> for a third week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Langley adds her latest week of chart history as \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d tallies a 10th week at No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9310,42310,6300,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-298480","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\/298480","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=298480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}