Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” spends a thirteenth nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard Hot 100, tying “The Boy Is Mine” by Brandy and Monica. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 29: Ella Langley attends 2026 Billboard Women In Music at Hollywood Palladium on April 29, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
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For the third week in a row, “Choosin’ Texas” leads the Billboard Hot 100. The tune is far and away the most successful song in America in 2026, and amazingly, it holds on top of the list of the most-consumed tracks in mid-July, despite the fact that it was originally pushed as a single in late 2025.
Of course, “Choosin’ Texas” has not spent only three frames dominating the Billboard Hot 100, which is published each week using sales, streaming, and radio airplay data, and which paints a picture of the most popular cuts of any style around the U.S. As of this frame, “Choosin’ Texas” has racked up an incredible and very lucky 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and as it refuses to budge, Ella Langley’s breakout smash ties a decades-old collaboration and makes history in one more fashion.
Ella Langley Matches Brandy and Monica’s Historic Run
With a thirteenth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the most competitive songs tally in the largest music market in the world, “Choosin’ Texas” ties as the fourth-longest-ruling hit in the more than half-century-long history of the roster by female artists and only female artists. As of this period, Langley’s single is now on the same level as “The Boy Is Mine” by Brandy and Monica. Those two superstars kept their generation-defining cut in the highest space on the Billboard Hot 100 for 13 frames in 1998.
“Choosin’ Texas” Could Soon Match Two Legendary Hits
Looking only at songs that credit solo women with no groups or men attached (at least not officially), only three cuts have topped the Billboard Hot 100 for longer stretches than “The Boy Is Mine” and “Choosin’ Texas.” In a few days, it’s likely that the country smash – the only one from the genre represented on this all-time rundown – will hold in first place. If that turns out to be the case, and “Choosin’ Texas” scores a fourteenth nonconsecutive frame running the show, it will join Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” and Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together,” which both stepped back from the summit after 14 periods in charge.
Those smashes managed their historic runs more than a decade apart from one another. Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” led the way, beginning in 1992 and continuing into the following year, while “We Belong Together” helped Carey manage a career comeback just over 20 years ago, back in 2005.
Mariah Carey Holds the All-Time Record
Another hit by Carey, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” stands out as not only the longest-running No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 when focusing on compositions by women, but when all tracks are included. The song is something of an exception, as it returns to the charts every December, becoming a streaming sensation, a bestseller, and a cut that is constantly heard across radio stations throughout the U.S.
As of early 2026, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has racked up 22 turns at No. 1, beginning in 2019. That figure will almost certainly expand again in a couple of months, and unless Billboard changes its chart rules, it’s difficult to imagine any holiday season in which Carey’s biggest win does not find its way back to the summit.
“Choosin’ Texas” May Tie Bruno Mars and Elton John
If “Choosin’ Texas” once again rules the Billboard Hot 100 in a few days, scoring a fourteenth week on top of the register, Langley’s career-making win will match not only “I Will Always Love You” and “We Belong Together,” but also several other smashes as one of the eighth-longest-running rulers of all time. Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You,” Los del RÃo’s “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix),” Elton John’s double single “Candle in the Wind 1997” and “Something About the Way You Look Tonight,” “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas, and “Uptown Funk,” the Grammy-winning collaboration between Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, also spent 14 weeks at No. 1 during their runs.
“Choosin’ Texas” may soon match those showings and advance even further in the future. It might tie longer-running rulers by Harry Styles, Morgan Wallen, and more, as there’s no end in sight for the new country classic.