Ella Langley Leaps Past Taylor Swift for Country History as ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Tops Hot 100 for 4th Week

Plus, Olivia Dean earns her second Hot 100 top 10 with “So Easy (To Fall in Love).”

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” holds for a historic fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song first led in mid-February and added its second week on top at the beginning of March.

“Choosin’ Texas” solely claims the most weeks ever spent atop the Hot 100 for a song by a woman that also hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, one-upping Taylor Swift’s three-week Hot 100 reign with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” in 2012.

Beyond “Choosin’ Texas” and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” three No. 1 country hits by women topped the Hot 100 for two weeks each: Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” in 2024 and Dolly Parton’s “Islands in the Stream,” with Kenny Rogers (1983), and “9 to 5” (1981).

Also of note among country classics by women: Parton wrote “I Will Always Love You,” with Whitney Houston’s cover ruling the Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 1992-93 (after Parton sent two of her versions to No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, in 1974 and 1982). Plus, Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” dominated the Hot 100 for 10 weeks and hit No. 4 on Hot Country Songs in 1977 and Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” led the Hot 100 for four weeks in 1967 and made it to No. 17 on Hot Country Songs.

“Choosin’ Texas” concurrently crowns Hot Country Songs for a 17th week.

Also in the Hot 100’s top 10, Olivia Dean charts her second career hit in the tier as “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” lifts 11-9. It joins “Man I Need,” which keeps at its No. 2 high.

Check out the full rundown of this week’s Hot 100 top 10 below.

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 March 28, 2026, will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 24. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

Source: billboard.com