Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Makes More History with 14th Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
Plus, Stella Lefty lands her first Hot 100 top 10 and Olivia Dean has the biggest song on radio.
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” tallies a 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — tying a pair of iconic songs for more historic heights.
The single, which first led the Hot 100 in February, matches Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” for the most weeks at No. 1 among non-holiday titles by women with no male-billed acts. Adding in Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” “Choosin’ Texas” ties for the second-longest command among songs by only women.
Here’s an updated rundown, ranked by most weeks at No. 1, of the longest-leading Hot 100 hits billed solely to women over the chart’s archives, which date to August 1958:
- 22 weeks (the overall record), “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey, 2019-26
- 14, “Choosin’ Texas,” Ella Langley, 2026
- 14, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, 2005
- 14, “I Will Always Love You,” Whitney Houston, 1992-93
- 13, “The Boy Is Mine,” Brandy & Monica, 1998
- 11, “Independent Women Part I,” Destiny’s Child, 2000-01
- 11, “Un-Break My Heart,” Toni Braxton, 1996-97
Elsewhere, Stella Lefty achieves her first Hot 100 top 10, as “Boston” bounds to No. 6, and Olivia Dean has the newly-minted biggest song on radio, as “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” tops the Radio Songs chart, while continuing its run in the Hot 100’s top 10.
Read on for details of the entire top 10 on this week’s Hot 100.
The 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 July 25, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, July 21. 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.
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