{"id":415463,"date":"2026-08-24T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415463\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:08:12","slug":"ella-langleys-choosin-texas-no-1-on-hot-100-for-19th-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415463\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 No. 1 on Hot 100 for 19th Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElla Langley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d achieves a 19th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> \u2014 tying for the longest run ever atop the chart among non-holiday songs. The smash first led<\/a> in February and has already set multiple chart records<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

22 weeks, \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d Mariah Carey, 2019-26<\/p>\n

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

19, \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy),\u201d Shaboozey, 2024<\/p>\n

19, \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, 2019<\/p>\n

16, \u201cLast Night,\u201d Morgan Wallen, 2023<\/p>\n

16, \u201cDespacito,\u201d Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, 2017<\/p>\n

16, \u201cOne Sweet Day,\u201d Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, 1995-96<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d and Shaboozey\u2019s \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy)\u201d<\/a> became country and pop crossover airplay hits, while Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d<\/a> featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, scored at pop and R&B\/hip-hop radio, with all three songs also evolving into streaming and sales monsters.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe only song in their way historically, Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d has dominated<\/a> the Hot 100 each holiday season since the 1994 carol was first No. 1 in 2019 (and could add to its total after it\u2019s time<\/a> once again).<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d takes over as the most-heard song on radio, while country holds the Hot 100\u2019s top four spots, continuing the genre\u2019s recent dominance.<\/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 Aug. 29, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 25. 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 promoted it to country radio, totaled 24.3 million official streams (down 3% week over week), 55.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 7,000 sold (down 10%) in the United States Aug. 14-20.<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley\u2019s first Hot 100 leader holds for a 19th week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs<\/a> and a 16th week atop Digital Song Sales<\/a> and rises 6-5, after reaching No. 4, on Radio Songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d also tops the multimetric Hot Country Songs<\/a> chart for a 37th week and the Songs of the Summer<\/a> chart for a 12th week.<\/p>\n

\t\u2018Texas,\u2019 \u2018Boston\u2019 Two-Step<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d at No. 1 on the Hot 100, Stella Lefty\u2019s \u201cBoston\u201d jumps 4-2 for a new high, surpassing its prior No. 3 peak.<\/p>\n

\n\tC(h)artography lesson: The odes to Texas (and Tennessee) and Boston combine for the first week in Hot 100 history in which the name of a U.S. state and a U.S. city appear in the top two titles together.<\/p>\n

\n\t(Special shout-out to Boston, Texas<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\tCountry Takes Top 4, Swift Rules Radio<\/p>\n

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\n\tTaylor Swift\u2019s \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d dips 2-3, after it spent its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 in June, and Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cBeen by Now\u201d drops 3-4, after it debuted at its No. 2 high.<\/p>\n

\n\tCountry claims another especially prominent week, three weeks after the genre monopolized the entire top five<\/a> on the Hot 100 for the first time. Of the 12 weeks all-time with country songs at either Nos. 1-3, 1-4 or 1-5, all have occurred since August 2023, powered, in part, by country\u2019s growth in streaming, among other factors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d ascends a spot on Radio Songs (64.7 million, down 2%) to become Swift\u2019s ninth No. 1 on the chart. She boasts the fourth-most leaders since the ranking began in December 1990, after only Rihanna (13), Bruno Mars (12) and Mariah Carey (11).<\/p>\n

\tRest of Top 10: A Summer Freeze<\/p>\n

\n\tEach song in the rest of the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 holds in place, led by Ariana Grande\u2019s \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d at No. 5 after it led in its debut week in June.<\/p>\n

\n\tWallen and Langley\u2019s \u201cI Can\u2019t Love You Anymore\u201d is No. 6 on the Hot 100 after hitting No. 4.<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Dean\u2019s \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d ranks at No. 7 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 5, with her \u201cMan I Need\u201d at No. 9, after peaking at No. 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tTame Impala and JENNIE\u2019s \u201cDracula\u201d is No. 8 after reaching No. 5 on the Hot 100. It tops the multimetric Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a> chart for a 33rd week and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs<\/a> for a 15th week.<\/p>\n

\n\tLangley\u2019s \u201cBe Her\u201d rounds out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10 at No. 10, after hitting No. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d achieves a 19th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 \u2014 tying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9310,42310,6300,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-415463","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\/415463","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=415463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}