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Ella Langley’s Choosin’ Texas matches record for most weeks at Hot 100 No. 1
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Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" has spent a 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, equalling the all-time record for weeks atop the chart held jointly by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" among female acts without a co-billed male performer (Carey's seasonal "All I Want for Christmas Is You," with roughly 22 weeks spread across seven years, sits outside that comparison). The achievement confirms the song as the year's biggest hit and caps a strong run for Langley, who first reached No. 1 in February and won the Academy of Country Music's female artist of the year award in May.
Along the way, the track overtook Brandy & Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" (13 weeks) and both Destiny's Child's "Independent Women Part I" and Toni Braxton's "Un-Break My Heart" (11 weeks each). For the week of 10-16 July it logged 24 million official streams (down 4% on the week), 51 million radio airplay impressions (up 1%) and 7,000 US sales. Elsewhere on the chart, Stella Lefty earned her first Hot 100 top 10 with "Boston" at No. 6, while British singer Olivia Dean topped the Radio Songs chart with "So Easy (To Fall in Love)," which rose to No. 9 on the Hot 100 and overtook her own "Man I Need," extending a strong run for Dean with both songs having peaked at No. 5.
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In short
- "Choosin' Texas" ties record for most weeks at Hot 100 No. 1
- Matches Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey's chart longevity marks
- Olivia Dean and Stella Lefty also post notable chart gains
How this story developed
- 4 months ago The report was refined to describe Langley's 14th week as matching rather than merely tying the all-time record, reaffirming the earlier detail that "Man I Need" had slipped to No. 10 as "So Easy (To Fall in Love)" climbed to No. 9, with the streaming, airplay and sales figures for the 10-16 July week left unchanged from the prior update.
- 4 months ago Coverage was updated to specify that "Choosin' Texas" had already surpassed Brandy & Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" and the joint 11-week reigns of Destiny's Child's "Independent Women Part I" and Toni Braxton's "Un-Break My Heart" on its way to the record-equalling 14th week, and to note that Dean's rising single had specifically overtaken her own earlier hit "Man I Need", with both of her songs having peaked at No. 5.
- 4 months ago Billboard reported that Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" had spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, tying the female-solo-act record shared by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together", with the song still logging 24 million streams, 51 million radio impressions and 7,000 sales for 10-16 July while Stella Lefty's "Boston" and Olivia Dean's "So Easy (To Fall in Love)" also moved up the chart.
Explained simply
Ella Langley is a country music singer whose song "Choosin' Texas" has spent an unusually long time at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, the main chart used in the United States to track the most popular songs each week, based on a mix of sales, radio airplay and streaming numbers. Staying at number one for so many weeks in a row is rare, and doing so puts a song in the same company as some of the biggest hits in chart history.
The comparison being drawn is with two previous record-holders: Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together", both of which are benchmark hits by female solo artists for weeks spent at number one. Billboard tracks these milestones closely because they offer a way of measuring a song's popularity and staying power against decades of chart history, rather than just its initial impact.
Langley is a relatively new but fast-rising name in country music, having first topped the chart earlier this year and picked up a major industry award for female artist of the year. Her song's sustained run at number one matters because it marks her as one of the most commercially successful acts in the genre at the moment, and ties her into a small group of artists whose singles have dominated the American charts for an unusually long stretch.
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Originally published by Variety Music as “Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Ties Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey’s Records on Billboard Hot 100”.