Ella Langley’s choosin texas reached a 23rd week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, setting the all-time mark and moving past Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You. The record lands as the song keeps drawing support across streaming, radio and sales — the three inputs that drive the Hot 100.
Langley called the run “It feels surreal” and said, “I think this has been the biggest moment for me, where I’ve seen where fans can change your career.” She added, “For so long, you’re like, ‘Alright, one song at a time, one record at a time.’”
Sept. 26, 2026
The 23rd week at No. 1 came in the latest Billboard Hot 100 update dated Sept. 26, 2026. Choosin’ Texas debuted on the chart dated Nov. 1, 2025 as Langley’s fifth career entry, then became her first top 10 in January before first reaching No. 1 in February. From there, it held a long enough lead to turn a country release into the longest-running No. 1 in Hot 100 history.
Streaming Songs and Radio Songs
For Sept. 11-17, the song logged 21.8 million official streams in the United States, 58.3 million radio airplay audience impressions and 6,000 sold. It held a 23rd week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, rose from No. 6 to No. 2 on Radio Songs, reached No. 4 on Adult Pop Airplay, No. 7 on Pop Airplay and No. 9 on Adult Contemporary. The same title also ran for an 18th week atop Digital Song Sales.
That spread matters because the record-setting song is a country track, yet its chart dominance is measured across streaming, pop, adult contemporary and radio formats. In other words, the Hot 100 run is not coming from one lane; it is holding up across the same blended system that Billboard uses to rank the market.
Mariah Carey and Digital Song Sales
Choosin’ Texas overtook All I Want for Christmas Is You for the longest reign ever atop the Billboard Hot 100, even though Carey’s song has returned every Yuletide season since its 1994 debut. Langley co-wrote the track with Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor, and she said, “But with this one song — and they’ve done it continuously for me — but really with ‘Choosin’ Texas’ … man, have they taken ahold of it.”
The practical read is simple: the record now belongs to a song built on current, recurring demand rather than seasonal rotation, and that makes the bar harder to reclaim. Langley’s own reaction fits the scale of the moment — “It’s wild.”
