{"id":4920,"date":"2026-07-20T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:02:16","slug":"ella-langleys-choosin-texas-makes-more-history-with-14th-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4920","title":{"rendered":"Ella Langley\u2019s \u2018Choosin\u2019 Texas\u2019 Makes More History with 14th Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot\u00a0100"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>Plus, Stella Lefty lands her first Hot 100 top 10 and Olivia Dean has the biggest song on radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ella-langley\/\">Ella Langley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d tallies a 14th week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 tying a pair of iconic songs for more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/ella-langley-morgan-wallen-country-chart-records-2020s\/\">historic<\/a>&nbsp;heights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The single, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/ella-langley-choosin-texas-hot-100-number-one\/\">first led<\/a>&nbsp;the Hot 100 in February, matches Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cWe Belong Together\u201d and Whitney Houston\u2019s \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d for the most weeks at No. 1 among non-holiday titles by women with no male-billed acts. Adding in Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d ties for the second-longest command among songs by only women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s an updated rundown, ranked by most weeks at No. 1, of the longest-leading Hot 100 hits billed solely to women over the chart\u2019s archives, which date to August 1958:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>22 weeks (the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/hot-100-number-1-songs-on-top-longest\/\">overall record<\/a>), \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You,\u201d Mariah Carey, 2019-26<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>14, \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas,\u201d Ella Langley, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>14, \u201cWe Belong Together,\u201d Mariah Carey, 2005<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>14, \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d Whitney Houston, 1992-93<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>13, \u201cThe Boy Is Mine,\u201d Brandy &amp; Monica, 1998<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>11, \u201cIndependent Women Part I,\u201d Destiny\u2019s Child, 2000-01<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>11, \u201cUn-Break My Heart,\u201d Toni Braxton, 1996-97<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hLOheGDwD_0?si=iQtyljhSwOiS2OMl\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere, Stella Lefty achieves her first Hot 100 top 10, as \u201cBoston\u201d bounds to No. 6, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/olivia-dean\/\">Olivia Dean<\/a>&nbsp;has the newly-minted biggest song on radio, as \u201cSo Easy (To Fall in Love)\u201d tops the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/radio-songs\/\">Radio Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, while continuing its run in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on for details of the entire top 10 on this week\u2019s Hot 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/billboard-charts-legend\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4920\" data-postid=\"4920\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4920 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Stella Lefty lands her first Hot 100 top 10 and Olivia Dean has the biggest song on radio. Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d tallies a 14th week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;\u2014 tying a pair of iconic songs for more&nbsp;historic&nbsp;heights. 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