Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” set a new record for the longest run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching 23 weeks on the chart dated 26 September and extending to 24 weeks the following week. The country crossover hit passed Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You”, which had held the record with 22 weeks, marking another recent change to a chart record that has been repeatedly surpassed since 2019.

Billboard’s retrospective traces the songs that established successive records, from Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool”, the first Hot 100 No. 1 in 1958, to the latest milestone. Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” was the first song to spend 10 weeks at the top; Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” later set a 16-week mark that stood for more than 23 years. Carey and Boyz II Men are the only acts to have each taken the record more than once.