Fans are choosing Ella Langley over and over again. The country singer-songwriter and producer’s hit song “Choosin’ Texas” has set an illustrious record: the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
On the chart dated Sept. 26, 2026, “Choosin’ Texas,” which first topped the Hot 100 in February, added a 23rd week at No. 1, one-upping Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” for the mark, dating to the chart’s August 1958 inception.
As of the Oct. 17 Hot 100, “Choosin’ Texas” is No. 2, after 24 weeks at No. 1 — with Drake and Don Toliver’s “Solar Eclipse” new at No. 5. Notably, the latter interpolates “Choosin’ Texas.”
For much of 2026, the Alabama native has been setting records almost every week on both the pop and country charts with either “Choosin’ Texas” or parent album Dandelion.
Langley cowrote the two-stepping, midtempo song about a heartbreak with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor (and Langley and Lambert coproduced it with Ben West). As Langley told Billboard earlier this year, “I was on a writers retreat with Miranda, our first time writing together. At a young age, she had a pet kangaroo. She told me how she got pulled over once with the kangaroo in the passenger seat. The kangaroo got her out of a ticket and she said, ‘Of course, I had Texas plates, too.’ I went, ‘Well, she’s from Texas, I can tell …’ Forty-five minutes later, we had the song written.”
Below is a list of records that “Choosin’ Texas” and Langley have already matched or set.