{"id":372236,"date":"2026-07-14T07:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372236\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:27:27","slug":"ella-langleys-choosin-texas-no-1-on-hot-100-for-13th-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372236\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 No. 1 on Hot 100 for 13th Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tListeners continue to be choosin\u2019 \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d as Ella Langley<\/a>\u2019s smash holds for a 13th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe song\u2019s newest historic<\/a> levels: The hit, which first led<\/a> the Hot 100 in February, is one of just five, and the only one by an act known for primarily recording country music, to have dominated for 13 weeks or more among titles by women with no male-billed acts.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s an updated rundown, ranked by most weeks at No. 1, over the Hot 100\u2019s archives, which date to August 1958:<\/p>\n

22 weeks (the overall record<\/a>), \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d Mariah Carey, 2019-26<\/p>\n

14, \u201cWe Belong Together,\u201d Mariah Carey, 2005<\/p>\n

14, \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d Whitney Houston, 1992-93<\/p>\n

13, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d Ella Langley, 2026<\/p>\n

13, \u201cThe Boy Is Mine,\u201d Brandy & Monica, 1998<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d is, thus, the first non-holiday song to join the group above since Carey\u2019s \u201cWe Belong Together\u201d 21 years ago.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Langley boasts three songs in the Hot 100\u2019s top four spots, with \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d joined by \u201cBe Her,\u201d steady at its No. 3 high, and \u201cI Can\u2019t Love You Anymore,\u201d with Morgan Wallen, new to the top five with a 6-4 jump. How rare is that kind of a triple-up?<\/p>\n

\n\tRead on for details of the feat and 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 July 18, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, July 14. 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 having overseen promotion of the song to country radio, totaled 25.1 million official streams (down 3% week over week), 50.8 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 7,000 sold (down 14%) in the United States July 3-9.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe single is stationary atop the Streaming Songs<\/a> chart, leading for a 14th week; at No. 6, after reaching No. 4, on Radio Songs<\/a>; and at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales<\/a>, where it\u2019s on top for a 12th week. On Streaming Songs, it ties for the fifth-longest rule in the chart\u2019s history. On Digital Song Sales, it becomes of only 10 titles to have led for at least a dozen weeks.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlus, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d tops the multimetric Hot Country Songs<\/a> chart for a 31st week and Songs of the Summer<\/a> for a sixth week.<\/p>\n

\tLangley Has 3 of Top 4<\/p>\n

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\n\tLangley has two more songs in the top four of the Hot 100: \u201cBe Her\u201d keeps at No. 3 after reaching No. 2 and \u201cI Can\u2019t Love You Anymore,\u201d with Morgan Wallen, pushes 6-4 for its first week in the top five (up 5% to 29.2 million in airplay audience).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe only acts that have infused the Hot 100\u2019s top four places with at least three hits at once \u2014 with Langley the first female artist to do so with a trio of country songs: The Beatles (for a record seven weeks), Drake (six), Kendrick Lamar (five), Taylor Swift (four), Wallen (two), 21 Savage, Sabrina Carpenter, Ariana Grande and Langley (one each).<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley\u2019s three songs in the region are from her second LP, Dandelion, which has spent all 13 of its weeks and counting on the Top Country Albums chart at No. 1. They have been promoted, in their order on the Hot 100, as the first three radio singles from the set (with \u201cLoving Life Again,\u201d which debuts on the latest Country Airplay chart, its newest offering).<\/p>\n

\t\u2018Dracula\u2019 Rises to Top 5<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in the Hot 100\u2019s top five for the first time, Tame Impala and JENNIE\u2019s \u201cDracula\u201d surges 8-5 (gaining 3% to 59.6 million in radio reach). Already each act\u2019s first top 10 on the chart, it leads Pop Airplay<\/a> for a second week, after it ruled Alternative Airplay for two weeks in February.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDracula\u201d concurrently tops the multimetric Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a> chart for a 27th week and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs<\/a> for a ninth week.<\/p>\n

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

\n\tTaylor Swift\u2019s \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d ranks at No. 2 on the Hot 100 for a third consecutive week, after it spent its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1 in June.<\/p>\n

\n\tAriana Grande\u2019s \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d lifts 7-6 after it led the Hot 100 in its debut week in May.<\/p>\n

\n\tBruno Mars\u2019 \u201cI Just Might,\u201d which debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in January and led for three weeks through March, pushes 10-7. It tops Radio Songs for a 21st week (63.3 million, down 2%), while leading the multimetric Hot R&B Songs<\/a> chart for a 26th frame. On Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a>, it rebounds for a 19th week at No. 1, solely claiming the fifth-longest command in the chart\u2019s history, which dates to October 1958.<\/p>\n

\n\tDrake\u2019s \u201cJanice STFU\u201d drops 4-8 after logging its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 beginning in late May. It posts an eighth week atop the multimetric Hot Rap Songs<\/a> chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Dean rounds out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 with two songs: \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d returns to the tier, up 12-9, after reaching No. 5, and \u201cMan I Need\u201d falls 5-10 after hitting No. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listeners continue to be choosin\u2019 \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d as Ella Langley\u2019s smash holds for a 13th week at No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9310,42310,6300,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-372236","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\/372236","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=372236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}