Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ No. 1 on Hot 100 for 7th Week as ‘Dandelion’ Debuts Atop Billboard 200
Langley joins Taylor Swift as the only women to top the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 with country titles simultaneously.
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” tallies a seventh nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It became her first leader on the chart in mid-February.
Concurrently, parent album Dandelion sprouts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Langley becomes just the second woman to lead the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously with country titles (defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Hot Country Songs or Top Country Albums charts). Taylor Swift first doubled up with “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” and Red (Taylor’s Version) on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 for a week in November 2021. With Swift earning the honor via re-recorded material, Langley is the first woman to claim the mark with all-new music.
Meanwhile, fellow Dandelion track “Be Her” bounds 8-4 for a new Hot 100 high, marking Langley’s second top five hit. She becomes the first woman artist that has primarily recorded country music to chart her initial two top five songs in the region simultaneously.
On the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart, “Choosin’ Texas” reigns for a 21st week and “Be Her” holds at its No. 2 best (with both in the top 10 on Country Airplay). Langley cowrote and coproduced both songs.
“It was such a crazy moment,” the Alabama native told Billboard about finding out that “Choosin’ Texas” had first topped the Hot 100. “My label called, with my team on speaker, and it was just surreal. We loved the song when we wrote it, but none of us thought that it would be the song to do everything it’s doing. It keeps giving us a reason to celebrate new milestones.”
Read on for details of this week’s Hot 100 top 10, which again features a prominent presence by women artists overall.
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