{"id":444186,"date":"2026-09-22T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444186\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:26:09","slug":"ella-langleys-choosin-texas-no-1-on-hot-100-for-23rd-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444186\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 No. 1 on Hot 100 for 23rd Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElla Langley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d rewrites the record for the longest run ever achieved atop the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> as it scores a 23rd week at No. 1. The smash one-ups the command of Mariah Carey\u2019s perennial \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d which has topped<\/a> the chart each Yuletide season since the classic 1994 carol first<\/a> led.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s an updated look at the longest-leading hits, ranked by most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Hot 100, since the chart began in August 1958:<\/p>\n

23 weeks (to date), \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d Ella Langley, 2026<\/p>\n

22, \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d Mariah Carey, 2019-26<\/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\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d debuted on the Hot 100 dated Nov. 1, 2025, as Langley\u2019s fifth career entry on the chart. It became her first top 10 in January and initially led<\/a> in February, on its way to setting multiple chart records<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt feels surreal,\u201d Langley told Billboard News earlier this year of the song\u2019s impact. \u201cI think this has been the biggest moment for me, where I\u2019ve seen where fans can change your career. For so long, you\u2019re like, \u2018Alright, one song at a time, one record at a time.\u2019 But with this one song \u2014 and they\u2019ve done it continuously for me \u2014 but really with \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 \u2026 man, have they taken ahold of it. It\u2019s wild.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for what has helped the song connect so strongly? \u201cI don\u2019t know. I really don\u2019t,\u201d said Langley, who co-penned it with Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor. \u201cThose of us that wrote it, we talk about that. We love this song. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s because it\u2019s an honest point of view \u2026 but I hear a lot of honest songs all the time, so I don\u2019t know. I tried to add some groove into this record, big singing choruses and big melodic guitar licks that you can remember. I don\u2019t know if it feels nostalgic or sounds like something they hadn\u2019t heard before.\u201d<\/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 Sept. 26, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Sept. 23 (a day later than usual due to observance of Yom Kippur Sept. 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 promoted it to country radio, totaled 21.8 million official streams (down 9% week over week), 58.3 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 6,000 sold (up 4%) in the United States Sept. 11-17.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe track holds for a 23rd week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs<\/a> and bounds 6-2 for a new high on Radio Songs<\/a>, as it bullets at its highs in the top 10 on Adult Pop Airplay (No. 4), Pop Airplay (No. 7) and Adult Contemporary (No. 9). It continues for an 18th week atop Digital Song Sales<\/a> \u2014 where it ties BTS\u2019 \u201cDynamite,\u201d from 2021, and \u201cButter,\u201d from 2020, for the longest reign in the chart\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d is concurrently No. 1 on the multimetric Hot Country Songs<\/a> chart for a 41st week; amid that run, it ruled Country Airplay, becoming the third of Langley\u2019s five leaders at the format, for three weeks in February-March.<\/p>\n

\tThe Record Setters<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d takes its place among 10 other songs that established<\/a> new highs for most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, dating to the chart\u2019s inaugural leader<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s a recap of every elite hit that broke those barriers. (Songs that tied existing marks are not listed; every Hot 100 No. 1 of 10 or more weeks is recapped here<\/a>.) Notably, Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey each boast two songs below, including their classic ballad together.<\/p>\n

\n\tFirst to number of weeks at No. 1: Title, Artist, First week at No. 1:<\/p>\n

23: \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d Ella Langley, Feb. 14, 2026<\/p>\n

20, 21 & 22: \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d Mariah Carey, Dec. 21, 2019<\/p>\n

17, 18 & 19: \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 13, 2019<\/p>\n

15 & 16: \u201cOne Sweet Day,\u201d Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, Dec. 2, 1995<\/p>\n

14: \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d Whitney Houston, Nov. 28, 1992<\/p>\n

11, 12 & 13: \u201cEnd of the Road,\u201d Boyz II Men, Aug. 15, 1992<\/p>\n

10: \u201cYou Light Up My Life,\u201d Debby Boone, Oct. 15, 1977<\/p>\n

7, 8 & 9: \u201cMack the Knife,\u201d Bobby Darin, Oct. 5, 1959<\/p>\n

6: \u201cIt\u2019s All in the Game,\u201d Tommy Edwards, Sept. 29, 1958<\/p>\n

3, 4 & 5: \u201cNel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare),\u201d Domenico Modugno, Aug. 18, 1958<\/p>\n

1 & 2: \u201cPoor Little Fool,\u201d Ricky Nelson, Aug. 4, 1958<\/p>\n

\tRest of Top 10: \u2018Dracula\u2019 Rules Radio, Karol G Ties Best Rank<\/p>\n

\n\tStella Lefty\u2019s \u201cBoston\u201d holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 best and Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cBeen by Now\u201d bumps 4-3, after it debuted at its No. 2 high. Country songs (defined as releases that have hit Hot Country Songs) have now held the Hot 100\u2019s top three, top four or top five<\/a> 16 times over the chart\u2019s history \u2014 with 12 having occurred since July.<\/p>\n

\n\tAriana Grande\u2019s \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d rebounds 5-4 on the Hot 100, after it led in its debut week in June.<\/p>\n

\n\tTame Impala and JENNIE\u2019s \u201cDracula\u201d lifts a spot back to its No. 5 Hot 100 peak. It tops the multimetric Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a> chart for a 37th week and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs<\/a> for a 19th week and ascends one place to No. 1 on Radio Songs (62.6 million, essentially even), where the acts each lead for the first time.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor Swift\u2019s \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d falls 3-6, after it spent its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 in June.<\/p>\n

\n\tKarol G\u2019s \u201cBbY WOW,\u201d with Judeline and rusowsky, jumps 10-7 a week after it reached the Hot 100\u2019s top 10. Karol G ties her best rank with her second song to make the tier, after \u201cTQG,\u201d with fellow Colombian star Shakira, debuted at its No. 7 peak in March 2023. \u201cBbY WOW\u201d (the first entry on the chart for both Judeline and rusowsky) concurrently leads the multimetric Hot Latin Songs<\/a> chart for a fifth week.<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Dean\u2019s \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d slips 7-8 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 5, while her \u201cMan I Need\u201d drops 8-9, after reaching at No. 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the Hot 100\u2019s top 10, Langley\u2019s \u201cBe Her\u201d backtracks 9-10, after peaking at No. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d rewrites the record for the longest run ever achieved atop the Billboard Hot 100…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9310,42310,6300,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-444186","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\/444186","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=444186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}