{"id":379846,"date":"2026-07-20T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379846\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:54:14","slug":"ella-langleys-choosin-texas-no-1-for-14th-week-on-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379846\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 No. 1 for 14th Week on Hot 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElla Langley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d tallies a 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> \u2014 tying a pair of iconic songs for more historic<\/a> heights.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe single, which first led<\/a> the Hot 100 in February, matches Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cWe Belong Together\u201d and Whitney Houston\u2019s \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d for the most weeks at No. 1 among non-holiday titles by women with no male-billed acts. Adding in Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d ties for the second-longest command among songs by only women.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s an updated rundown, ranked by most weeks at No. 1, of the longest-leading Hot 100 hits billed solely to women over the chart\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, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d Ella Langley, 2026<\/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, \u201cThe Boy Is Mine,\u201d Brandy & Monica, 1998<\/p>\n

11, \u201cIndependent Women Part I,\u201d Destiny\u2019s Child, 2000-01<\/p>\n

11, \u201cUn-Break My Heart,\u201d Toni Braxton, 1996-97<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, Stella Lefty achieves her first Hot 100 top 10, as \u201cBoston\u201d bounds to No. 6, and Olivia Dean<\/a> has the newly-minted biggest song on radio, as \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d tops the Radio Songs<\/a> chart, while continuing its run in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10.<\/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 July 25, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, July 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

\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 24 million official streams (down 4% week over week), 51 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1%) and 7,000 sold (essentially even) in the United States July 10-16.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt holds in place on the three all-genre charts that feed the Hot 100: It\u2019s No. 1 on Streaming Songs<\/a> for a 15th week; No. 6, after reaching No. 4, on Radio Songs; and No. 1 on Digital Song Sales<\/a> for a 13th week.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d also leads the multimetric Hot Country Songs<\/a> chart for a 32nd week and Songs of the Summer<\/a> for a seventh sweltering week.<\/p>\n

\tElla & Dolly<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d notched its 11th week atop the Hot 100, it became the sole longest-leading country title by a woman (defined as those that have appeared on Hot Country Songs), surpassing Debby Boone\u2019s 1977 smash \u201cYou Light Up My Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d equals the run of another song with a famed country pedigree: Dolly Parton wrote fellow 14-week Hot 100 No. 1 \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d which, as noted above, led for Whitney Houston in 1992-93. Parton sent two of her versions of the ballad to No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, in 1974 and 1982.<\/p>\n

\tStella Lefty\u2019s First Top 10<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Stella
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Cris Slater and Geoff Mau\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\tStella Lefty earns her first Hot 100 top 10, as \u201cBoston\u201d surges six spots to No. 6 with 16 million streams (up 7%), 21 million in airplay audience (up 22%) and 2,000 sold (up 12%). On Hot Country Songs, it rebounds to its No. 4 high.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the song in April became the singer-songwriter\u2019s first Hot 100 hit, she is the first woman to reach the top 10 with an initial entry that\u2019s a country title since Gabby Barrett, whose \u201cI Hope\u201d rose to No. 3 in 2020. Since then, two other acts have sent country songs that doubled as first Hot 100 hits to the top 10, both in 2023: Oliver Anthony Music, with \u201cRich Men North of Richmond\u201d (two weeks at No. 1), and Zach Bryan, with \u201cSomething in the Orange\u201d (No. 10).<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, Noah Kahan receives writing credit, with Stella Lefty, among others, on \u201cBoston,\u201d as it interpolates his \u201cStick Season.\u201d \u201cBoston\u201d has now charted higher than Kahan\u2019s original, which reached No. 9 in 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlus, \u201cBoston\u201d marks the first Hot 100 top 10 for the Atlantic Outpost imprint, which launched last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso per the winning streak for \u201cBoston\u201d (not the only one currently<\/a>), it\u2019s the second Hot 100 top 10 to name-check the city in its title, after Dave Loggins\u2019 \u201cPlease Come to Boston,\u201d which hit No. 5 in 1974. Plus, the band Boston boasts four top 10s, including the 1986 No. 1 \u201cAmanda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u2018Easy\u2019 Does It<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Olivia
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Gilbert Flores\/WWD\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Dean\u2019s \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d becomes the most-heard song on radio, rising a spot to No. 1 on Radio Songs (62.9 million, in line with the previous week). It\u2019s her second leader on the chart, after \u201cMan I Need\u201d was No. 1 for three weeks in February. (The songs have shared space in the top 10 each week since the start of April.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the tracks mark Dean\u2019s first two Radio Songs hits, she\u2019s the first artist to lead on her first two tries since Lewis Capaldi, who did so with \u201cSomeone You Loved\u201d and \u201cBefore You Go\u201d in 2019-20, just after Lizzo arrived with the No. 1s \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d and \u201cGood as Hell\u201d in 2019. Before that, Adele became the only artist to take her first three Radio Songs entries to No. 1, in 2011-12: \u201cRolling in the Deep,\u201d \u201cSomeone Like You\u201d and \u201cSet Fire to the Rain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the Hot 100, \u201cMan I Need\u201d rises 10-8, after hitting No. 2, and \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d holds at No. 9, after reaching No. 5.<\/p>\n

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

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

\n\tElla Langley charts two more songs in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10: \u201cBe Her\u201d holds at No. 3 after reaching No. 2 and \u201cI Can\u2019t Love You Anymore,\u201d with Morgan Wallen, dips to No. 7 from its No. 4 high.<\/p>\n

\n\tAriana Grande\u2019s \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d climbs 6-4 after it led the Hot 100 in its debut week in May.<\/p>\n

\n\tTame Impala and JENNIE\u2019s \u201cDracula\u201d repeats at its No. 5 Hot 100 best. It tops the multimetric Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a> chart for a 28th week and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs<\/a> for a 10th week.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201cI Just Might,\u201d which debuted at No. 1 in January and led for three weeks through March, holds at No. 10. It rules the multimetric Hot R&B Songs<\/a> chart for a 27th week and Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a> for a 20th week, becoming just the fifth song to reach the milestone on the latter list, whose history dates to October 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d tallies a 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 \u2014 tying…\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-379846","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\/379846","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=379846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379846\/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=379846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}