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Ella Langley extends Choosin’ Texas record run atop Hot 100
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Ella Langley's country hit "Choosin' Texas" completed a 14-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, matching Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" for the longest reign among non-holiday songs credited solely to women. Including Carey's Christmas perennial "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Langley's track shares the second-longest command of the summit by any all-female billing, cementing its status as one of the most durable crossover country hits since first topping the chart in February.
Released on SAWGOD/Columbia with Triple Tigers handling country radio promotion, the single logged 24 million official US streams, 51 million radio airplay impressions and 7,000 sales in the week to 16 July, keeping it at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (15th week) and Digital Song Sales (13th week), and at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs for a 32nd week. Its Hot 100 tally puts it level with Dolly Parton-written "I Will Always Love You," while elsewhere on the chart Stella Lefty earned her first Hot 100 top 10 with "Boston" and Olivia Dean's "So Easy (To Fall in Love)" became the biggest song on US radio.
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In short
- "Choosin' Texas" ties record for longest No. 1 run by an all-female act
- 14 weeks atop Hot 100, level with Carey and Houston classics
- Stella Lefty and Olivia Dean also notch chart milestones this week
How this story developed
- 4 months ago Billboard's fresh weekly figures confirmed the 14th week at No. 1 still stood, adding that the song had also extended its lead on Songs of the Summer to a seventh week and noting Dolly Parton, who wrote "I Will Always Love You," twice topped Hot Country Songs with her own versions in 1974 and 1982.
- 4 months ago Coverage reiterated Langley's fourteen-week Hot 100 command as a landmark for women in country music, framing it chiefly against her having eclipsed a female country artist's decades-old chart record rather than adding fresh chart data.
- 4 months ago Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" completed a 14-week run atop the Billboard Hot 100, tying Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" for the longest reign by an all-female billing outside holiday songs, while also holding No. 1 on Streaming Songs, Digital Song Sales and Hot Country Songs for the week ending 16 July.
Explained simply
Ella Langley is a country singer whose song "Choosin' Texas" has spent 14 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the main US chart that ranks songs by streaming, radio play and sales. That run ties it with two of the biggest pop hits of all time, Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," for the longest time any song performed solely by women has held the top spot outside of Christmas songs.
The track's staying power is unusual because country songs rarely dominate the all-genre Hot 100 for this long, and it has done so through strong streaming numbers, heavy radio airplay and steady sales rather than a single format. It has also topped Billboard's country, streaming and digital sales charts for extended periods, showing broad crossover appeal beyond country's usual audience.
The story matters because it marks a significant chart milestone for women in music and for country music's reach into the mainstream, placing Langley alongside some of the most successful female artists in chart history.
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Originally published by Billboard as “Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Makes More History With 14th Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100”.