Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Hits Historic 11th Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
The smash becomes the sole longest-leading country song by a woman.
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” rebounds a spot for another history-making week atop the Billboard Hot 100.
With an 11th week in command, the song becomes the sole longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1 by a woman with a country hit, defined as those that have hit Billboard’s multimetric Hot Country Songs chart. It breaks out of a tie with Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life,” which dominated the Hot 100 for 10 weeks (becoming the first song to reign for double-digit weeks) and reached No. 4 on Hot Country Songs in 1977.
(Also of note, Dolly Parton wrote “ I Will Always Love You,” which Whitney Houston took to No. 1 on the Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 1992-93. Parton sent two versions of the revered ballad to the top of Hot Country Songs, in 1974 and 1982.)
“Choosin’ Texas” tops Hot Country Songs for a 29th week.
The hit adds another unprecedented feat: Langley’s first Hot 100 leader stakes its sixth distinct stay at No. 1, previously leading on charts dated Feb. 14; March 7 and 21-28; April 11-25; and May 9-23. It solely claims the most separate No. 1 stays over a single release cycle, one-upping the five flights for Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” in 2023 and Harry Styles’ “As It Was” in 2022. (Overall, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” leads with eight ascents to No. 1 over 2019-25.)
Amid the No. 1 run on the Hot 100 for the resilient “Choosin’ Texas,” eight other songs have taken turns at the top: Bad Bunny’s “DtMF”; Taylor Swift’s “Opalite;” Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might”; BTS’ “Swim”; Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead”; Drake’s “Janice STFU”; Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me”; and Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You.” (The reigns of “Last Night” and “As It Was” were interrupted by six No. 1s each.)
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 4, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, June 30. 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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