{"id":477377,"date":"2026-10-26T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477377\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:10:12","slug":"ella-langleys-choosin-texas-no-1-on-hot-100-for-25th-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477377\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 No. 1 on Hot 100 for 25th Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElla Langley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d rises a spot to notch a record-extending 25th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

25 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 initially ruled<\/a> the Hot 100 in February, on its way to setting multiple chart records<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlus, three songs crash the Hot 100\u2019s top five: Tate McRae\u2019s \u201cHousewife\u201d debuts at No. 2; Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan\u2019s \u201cExpectations\u201d vaults 63-3, following the release of its remix adding Roan; and Zach Bryan\u2019s \u201cLies,\u201d featuring Lana Del Rey, opens at No. 4.<\/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 Oct. 31, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Oct. 27. 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 20 million official streams (up 1% week over week), 58.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (essentially even) and 4,000 sold (down 17%) in the United States Oct. 16-22.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe single drops to No. 4 from No. 1 following a record-tying<\/a> 26 weeks atop the Streaming Songs<\/a> chart; holds at its No. 2 high on Radio Songs<\/a>; and falls 2-5 after a record 19 weeks atop Digital Song Sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d also leads the multimetric Hot Country Songs<\/a> chart for a 46th week, passing Shaboozey\u2019s \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy),\u201d from 2024, for the second-longest No. 1 run; Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line\u2019s \u201cMeant To Be\u201d ruled for 50 weeks in 2017-18.<\/p>\n

\tElla, Extended<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d logs its seventh distinct stay at No. 1 on the Hot 100, previously leading on charts dated Feb. 14; March 7 and 21-28; April 11-25; May 9-23; and July 4-Oct. 3. It extends its mark for the most separate No. 1 runs over a single release cycle. (Overall, Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d leads with eight ascents to No. 1 over 2019-25.)<\/p>\n

\n\tFurther reflecting its staying power, in between the first and latest week atop the Hot 100 for \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d nine other songs have led: Bad Bunny\u2019s \u201cDtMF\u201d; Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cOpalite;\u201d Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201cI Just Might\u201d; BTS\u2019 \u201cSwim\u201d; Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s \u201cDrop Dead\u201d; Drake\u2019s \u201cJanice STFU\u201d; Ariana Grande\u2019s \u201cHate That I Made You Love Me\u201d; and Swift\u2019s \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d and \u201cPatient Zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d (released just more than a year ago, on Oct. 17, 2025) hit No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart<\/a> the same week that it first topped the Hot 100 in February. Langley has since added four top 10s at the format, including three additional leaders<\/a> from her album Dandelion: \u201cBe Her,\u201d \u201cI Can\u2019t Love You Anymore,\u201d with Morgan Wallen, and \u201cLoving Life Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u2018Housewife\u2019 No. 1 in Streaming<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Pierre-Ange Carlotti\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\tTate McRae\u2019s \u201cHousewife\u201d launches at No. 2 on the Hot 100 with 22.9 million streams, 12.7 million in airplay audience and 4,000 sold in its first full tracking week, after the song, and its official video, arrived Oct. 15<\/a>. Plus, she performed it<\/a> Oct. 18 at the 2026 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show.<\/p>\n

\n\tHaving described the song as about \u201ca woman who can\u2019t be contained,\u201d McRae adds her fourth Hot 100 top 10, and her highest-charting as a lead artist. \u201cGreedy\u201d rose to No. 3 in January 2024; Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cWhat I Want,\u201d on which she\u2019s featured, led in its debut week in May 2025; and \u201cTit for Tat\u201d entered at its No. 3 peak last October.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHousewife\u201d debuts atop Streaming Songs, as McRae\u2019s second No. 1 and first in a lead role, after \u201cWhat I Want\u201d led for six weeks.<\/p>\n

\tHigher \u2018Expectations\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Chappell
\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Phoenix Johnson\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOlivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan\u2019s \u201cExpectations\u201d soars 63-3 on the Hot 100, following the Oct. 15 release<\/a> of its remix, and video, adding Roan. The song was originally released in June by Rodrigo solo on her album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe track (all versions combined) totaled 18.2 million streams (up 302%), 2.6 million in radio reach (up from a negligible amount), 4,000 downloads sold (up 465%) and 15,000 in first-week physical sales (on cassette, CD and 7-inch vinyl).<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo scores her 11th Hot 100 top 10 with \u201cExpectations,\u201d which previously peaked at No. 20 upon its debut. It\u2019s her fifth top 10 from you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love \u2014 her first album to spin off that many \u2014 following \u201cDrop Dead\u201d (No. 1 for one week), \u201cStupid Song\u201d (No. 3), \u201cThe Cure\u201d (No. 5) and \u201cHoneybee\u201d (No. 9). She tallied four top 10s from her debut LP, Sour, in 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoan earns her fifth Hot 100 top 10, tying last year\u2019s \u201cThe Subway\u201d for her highest rank.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, Dan Nigro has produced or co-produced each of Rodrigo and Roan\u2019s Hot 100 top 10s, and co-written all but one (\u201cHoneybee,\u201d which Rodrigo solely wrote). Plus, Roan opened for Rodrigo on both the former\u2019s Sour Tour and Guts World Tour.<\/p>\n

\tBryan & Del Rey Debut<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Jason Kempin\/Getty Images\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso new in the Hot 100\u2019s top five, Zach Bryan\u2019s \u201cLies,\u201d featuring Lana Del Rey, enters at No. 4 with 19.6 million streams and 5,000 sold. It was released Oct. 16<\/a> on Bryan\u2019s new eight-song set, Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs.<\/p>\n

\n\tBryan achieves his fourth Hot 100 top 10 and Del Rey, her third; she ties her best placement, following her featured turn on Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cSnow on the Beach\u201d in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLies\u201d also opens at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, where Bryan and Del Rey each lead for the first time.<\/p>\n

\tRest of Top 10: \u2018Zero\u2019 Is 5 & More<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor Swift\u2019s \u201cPatient Zero\u201d falls four spots to No. 5 after it reigned in its first three weeks on the Hot 100. With 26,000 in physical sales and 4,000 in downloads, it\u2019s the top-selling song of the week overall.<\/p>\n

\n\tStella Lefty\u2019s \u201cBoston\u201d descends three places (3-6) on the Hot 100, as does Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cBeen by Now\u201d (4-7), with both having hit No. 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tTame Impala and JENNIE\u2019s \u201cDracula\u201d drops to No. 8 from its No. 5 Hot 100 high. It rules the multimetric Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs<\/a> chart for a 42nd week and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs<\/a> for a 24th, as it tops Radio Songs for a sixth frame (63.2 million, down 1%).<\/p>\n

\n\tAD\u00c9LA\u2019s \u201cNicole Kidman\u201d dips to No. 9 from its No. 6 Hot 100 best and, rounding out the top 10, Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s \u201cStupid Song\u201d slips 8-10.<\/p>\n

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