It’s hard to keep track of all the records at this point.
If you think it’s been hard to keep up with all the headlines surrounding Ella Langley and her generational run over the past six months, I wouldn’t even blame you at this point. After riding the highs of 2024’s Riley Green collaboration, “you look like you love me” all the way into the end of 2025, the Alabama native dropped what can only be described as a cultural phenomenon at this point with “Choosin’ Texas.”
As it stands today, “Choosin’ Texas” is the longest-running #1 hit by a female country artist on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 (eight weeks), the only country song by a woman to triple up and go #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, Hot Country and Country Airplay chart simultaneously and just the seventh country song solely recorded by a woman to go #1 on the Hot 100 in the history of the chart.
In case that wasn’t enough, thanks to the success of her sophomore album, Dandelion, which debuted at #1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and sold 169,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week, Langley became just the second woman in history to hold the #1 album and song in the U.S. simultaneously with a country song/album. Of course, Taylor Swift was the first, going #1 with Red (Taylor’s Version) and “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” back in 2021.
This week was particularly historic for the 27-year-old singer/songwriter once again.
After briefly departing the #1 spot on the Hot 100 last week, thanks to Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead,” which was in part aided by the pop star using Taylor Swift’s method of releasing multiple versions of the track to boost sales, “Choosin’ Texas” is back to the #1 spot for its eighth non-consecutive week.
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With “Be Her” holding strong at #5 and the internet-breaking collaboration with Morgan Wallen, “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” debuting this week at #7, Langley became the first female country artist to chart three or more songs inside the Hot 100’s Top 10. Even more notably, “I Can’t Love You Anymore” is now the highest-charting debut by a country collaboration (with equally billed artists) on the Hot 100 in history and the only one to premiere in the Top 10.
Not to be outdone, Langley also made some more history on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart this week as well.
With “Choosin’ Texas” spending yet another week at #1, “Be Her” continuing to stand at #2 and “I Can’t Love You Anymore” debuting at #3, Langley is now just the third artist in history to hold the top three songs on the Hot Country Songs chart. She joins only Beyoncé, who did it upon the release of Cowboy Carter in 2024 and Morgan Wallen, who has done it a staggering 26 times thanks to the release of monster albums like One Thing at a Time and I’m The Problem.
This was aided largeley in part to the aforementioned historic debut from “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” which garnered 16.7 million official streams, 10.8 million radio impressions and sold 10,000 units in its first week.
Either way you look at it, it’s yet another testament to the absolute phenomenon that is Ella Langley at the moment. For years, it felt like country music was in desperate need of another superstar. With Langley, it looks like we have found it and then some.
“Choosin’ Texas”
