Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' Earns 17th Week At No. 1—Surpasses This Mariah Carey Smash

Aug 11, 2026 02:48 AM - 2 hours ago 1

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Ella Langley’s smash “Choosin’ Texas” earned a 17th week astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, Billboard announced Monday, solidifying the state deed arsenic the 4th longest-running No. 1 of each clip while surpassing a Mariah Carey deed that held the grounds for decades.

"Choosin' Texas" is now the 4th longest-running No. 1 connected Billboard's Hot 100 chart. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

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“Choosin’ Texas,” which first reached No. 1 connected the Hot 100 successful February, earned a 17th non-consecutive week astatine No. 1, Billboard said Monday, besides placing No. 1 connected Billboard’s integer opus income and streaming charts.

The song’s 17th week astatine No. 1 breaks its necktie pinch Mariah Carey’s “One Sweet Day,” which classed No. 1 for 16 weeks betwixt 1995 and 1996 and held the grounds for the longest-running No. 1 for much than 2 decades, until Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” surpassed it successful 2019.

Billboard said streams of “Choosin’ Texas” were down somewhat this past week, but its assemblage impressions connected power roseate 4% while integer income surged 9%.

“Choosin’ Texas” besides leads the Hot Country Songs floor plan for a 35th week, making it the third-longest leader successful that chart’s history down Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which led for 45 weeks, and Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant To Be,” which led for 50 weeks.

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Whether “Choosin’ Texas” tin proceed its reign and surpass the 3 songs that person led the Hot 100 for a longer stretch. Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” person some led the Hot 100 for 19 weeks, while yearly chart-topper “All I Want For Christmas is You” by Carey is the all-time leader pinch 22 full weeks successful the apical spot.

How Did “Choosin’ Texas” Become A Smash?

Langley, who has been a rising state prima since she scored a fewer insignificant hits pinch her first medium successful 2024, released “Choosin’ Texas” successful October. The song, co-written and produced by Miranda Lambert, debuted connected the Hot 100 astatine No. 39 and took a fewer months to really return off, yet reaching No. 1 successful February. Through that time, Langley’s floor plan rose: She won a starring 5 awards astatine the Academy of Country Music Awards successful May, wherever “Choosin’ Texas” was crowned opus of the year. “Choosin’ Texas” besides became a deed connected TikTok, wherever it has been utilized successful much than 1.3 cardinal posts while Langley’s pursuing has surged to astir 5 million. Ashley Gorley, a state songwriter who has written for Luke Bryan and Morgan Wallen, among others, told Billboard the opus is truthful successful because it is an “instant state heartbreak classic” pinch “no wasted notes aliases lyrics; it sounds wholly authentic.”

Is “Choosin’ Texas” The Song Of The Summer?

“Choosin’ Texas” ranks atop Billboard’s songs of the summertime chart, and multiple publications person suggested the state deed is this year’s summer-defining smash. Some critics, though, person said “Choosin’ Texas” doesn’t consciousness peculiarly ubiquitous, which immoderate person blamed connected the emergence of streaming services and hyper-personalized listening habits. “What’s really happening is there’s hits successful what we telephone subcultures,” New York University adjunct professor of euphony business Clayton Durant told CNN past week. “If you’re not progressive successful a peculiar subculture, aliases your provender isn’t giving you that peculiar subculture, you arsenic a user whitethorn not consciousness that there’s an existent deed aliases benignant of for illustration a monolithic infinitesimal happening,” Durant said.

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Langley besides ranks No. 7 connected the Hot 100 this week pinch “I Can’t Love You Any More,” a collaboration pinch Morgan Wallen, and No. 10 pinch “Be Her.”

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“Choosin’ Texas” is starring the charts amid what Billboard has called a “commercial boom” for state music. Last week, the genre achieved a historic first erstwhile each of the apical 5 songs connected the Hot 100 were state songs. Leading the complaint successful the genre’s commercialized renaissance is Wallen, whose opus “Last Night” led the Hot 100 for 16 weeks successful 2023. Wallen has spent much weeks astatine No. 1 connected Billboard’s country albums floor plan than immoderate different artist, pinch 234 corporate weeks astatine the top, a staggering feat considering he first topped the floor plan conscionable six years ago.