{"id":385514,"date":"2026-07-24T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385514\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:37:12","slug":"ella-langley-chart-records-10-set-by-choosin-texas-dandelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385514\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley Chart Records: 10 Set by ‘Choosin Texas’ & ‘Dandelion’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFans are choosing Ella Langley <\/a>over and over again. The country singer\u2019s hit song, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d is on the precipice of setting an illustrious record for the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for a non-holiday title by a woman with no male-billed acts. And she would be surpassing two of the most legendary woman artists in music if she accomplishes the historic feat.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis week, on the chart dated July 25, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d which first topped the Hot 100 in February, ties Mariah Carey<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWe Belong Together\u201d and Whitney Houston<\/a>\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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt won\u2019t be revealed until Monday if Langley achieves the huge milestone and surpasses Carey and Houston, but, in the meantime, the Alabama native has been setting records almost every week on both the pop and country charts with either \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d or her album, Dandelion.<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley wrote the two-stepping, mid-tempo song about a heartbreak with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor. As Langley told Billboard<\/a> earlier this year, \u201cI was on a writers retreat with Miranda, our first time writing together. At a young age, she had a pet kangaroo. She told me how she got pulled over once with the kangaroo in the passenger seat. The kangaroo got her out of a ticket and she said, \u2018Of course, I had Texas plates, too.\u2019 I went, \u2018Well, she\u2019s from Texas, I can tell\u2026\u2019 Forty-five minutes later, we had the song written.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow is a list of records \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d and Langley have already matched or set.<\/p>\n

\tTaking on the Titans<\/p>\n

\n\tAs noted above, the single, which first led the Hot 100 in February, is tied with 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. (The overall record is 22 weeks by Mariah Carey with \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You.\u201d).<\/p>\n

\tDouble Trouble<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley and Megan Moroney pulled off a new feat in March, when she and Megan Moroney became the first women primarily known as country artists to concurrently top the Hot 100 (with Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d) and the Billboard 200 (with Moroney\u2019s Cloud 9).<\/p>\n

\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d Lights Up Langley\u2019s Life<\/p>\n

\n\tEven if she remains tied with Carey and Houston, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d already has a number of records to itself on the Hot 100. One of the bigger ones: When \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d notched its 11th week atop the Hot 100 at the end of June, it became the sole longest-leading country title (defined as those that have appeared on Hot Country Songs) by a woman, surpassing Debby Boone\u2019s 1977 smash \u201cYou Light Up My Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSwiftly Besting Taylor\u2019s Record<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley topped Taylor Swift\u2019s record for the most weeks by a woman on the Country Songwriters chart for the chart dated July 4 when she logged 17 weeks (and has now logged 20 weeks) The only other women to top Country Songwriters are Tracy Chapman (14 weeks), Laura Veltz (five), Beyonce (two), Megan Moroney (one), Nicolle Galyon (one) and Gabby Barrett (one). She has a way to go to catch up with the leader, Zach Bryan, who has 97 total weeks at No. 1.<\/p>\n

\tParton Me<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d is also breaking records for Langley as one of the song\u2019s writers. For the Hot 100 chart dated July 25, she 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 Whitney Houston covered for The Bodyguard. So, Langley is tied with Parton (and Miranda Lambert) for a country artist\/songwriter with the longest chart topper on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

\tWomen Rule<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley shared a very noteworthy record on Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated July 25, where women held the entire top 5 for an unprecedented sixth consecutive week. Langley occupied three of the five slots: No. 1 (\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d), No. 3 (\u201cBe Her\u201d) and No. 5 (\u201cI Can\u2019t Love You Anymore\u201d with Morgan Wallen), while Taylor Swift ranked No. 2 (\u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d) and Stella Lefty in No. 4 (\u201cBoston\u201d)<\/p>\n

\tMoving Lots and Lots of Music<\/p>\n

\n\tDandelion\u00a0earned more than 100,000 equivalent album units in four different weeks since its initial debut \u2014 the first time a country album by a woman has achieved that feat since the Billboard 200 began measuring by units in December 2014.<\/p>\n

\tProducing Results<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley also holds the record for the most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Country Producers chart among women, with seven weeks. The only other women to top Country Producers are Taylor Swift (4 weeks), Beyonce (2) and Miranda Lambert (1).<\/p>\n

\tHat Trick<\/p>\n

\n\tIn February, Langley became the only woman to simultaneously hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts.<\/p>\n

\tDouble Dippin\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tAs \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d and \u201cBe Her\u201d held at Nos.\u00a01 and 2, respectively, on the Hot\u00a0100 on charts dated May 6 and 23, Langley became the first artist known for primarily recording country music in the chart\u2019s 67-year history to simultaneously occupy the list\u2019s top two spots for multiple weeks. Morgan Wallen came close when he had two songs at Nos. 1 and 2, but only for one week, in May 2025.<\/p>\n

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