Country singer-songwriter Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has returned to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, extending its record to 25 total weeks atop the all-genre chart.
“It’s crazy to see the ownership that the fans have taken over it, and the different demographics of people listening to the song is so cool,” Langley told Billboard in April while discussing the single’s early crossover success.
That connection has lasted well beyond the song’s first trip to the top in February. Billboard’s Oct. 26 report places “Choosin’ Texas” at No. 1 on the chart dated Oct. 31, with the full charts scheduled to update Oct. 27.
This is a return, not an uninterrupted 25-week reign. The single moves up from No. 2 after singer-songwriter Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” spent its first three weeks at No. 1, and Langley now begins her seventh separate stay at the summit.
The latest week stretches an existing record rather than establishing it for the first time. “Choosin’ Texas” leads the Hot 100’s all-time list ahead of singer Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which has accumulated 22 weeks at No. 1.
The numbers behind Langley’s comeback show listeners still turning up more than a year after the single’s Oct. 17, 2025, release. During the Oct. 16-22 tracking period, it drew 20 million official US streams, 58.6 million radio airplay audience impressions and 4,000 sales.
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Those measures did not all move together: Streaming rose 1%, radio audience held essentially steady and sales fell 17% from the previous week. The Hot 100 combines streaming, airplay and sales, so the overall No. 1 does not have to lead each individual chart.
In fact, “Choosin’ Texas” slips from No. 1 to No. 4 on Streaming Songs while holding its No. 2 peak on Radio Songs. It also drops from No. 2 to No. 5 on Digital Song Sales.
There is another milestone on the country side. Its 46th week atop Hot Country Songs moves it past country singer Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” for the second-longest reign, behind the 50-week run of singer Bebe Rexha and country duo Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant To Be.”
For all those chart distinctions, Langley has offered a simpler explanation of the song’s appeal: the familiar ache of wanting someone who chooses something else.
“Everyone can relate to wanting something that doesn’t want you back, whether it be a relationship or a job,” she told Rolling Stone in an interview published April 8, discussing the song’s unrequited-love theme.
Langley wrote the single with country singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert and songwriters Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor. It appears on her second album, Dandelion, which arrived April 10 through SAWGOD/Columbia Records, with Langley, Lambert and producer Ben West serving as executive producers.
The record reaches back to family music-making, too. Langley told Rolling Stone that “Amazing Grace” and “Froggy Went a-Courtin’” were the first two songs she learned to sing, and she remembered relatives gathering around the piano to sing the latter at family reunions.
Snippets of that folk song bookend Dandelion. Between those reminders of home sits the single that, months after its first No. 1 week, listeners keep bringing back to the top.
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