Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" logged its 19th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated August 29, tying the longest reign ever posted by a non-holiday song. The mark matches "Old Town Road," Lil Nas X's 2019 record-setter featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, and Shaboozey's 2024 hit "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," putting a pure country single in company that, until now, belonged only to genre-blending crossovers.
The song has been building toward the record since it first reached No. 1 in February. Released on October 17, 2025 as the lead single from Langley's second album, "Dandelion," "Choosin' Texas" was written by Langley with Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor, and produced by Langley, Ben West and Lambert. Along the way it made Langley the first woman to simultaneously top the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, a feat previously managed only by Morgan Wallen, Post Malone and Shaboozey. The single has since been certified six-times platinum by the RIAA and has topped national charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand.
A Country Takeover on Pop's Own Chart
The song's run arrived alongside a broader shift in Nashville's standing on pop's biggest chart. For one week in early August, the entire Hot 100 top five consisted of country or country-adjacent songs, the genre's most decisive takeover of the chart since the Garth Brooks and Shania Twain era of the 1990s, according to an analysis in Slate. Billboard chart analyst Chris Molanphy attributed the surge to both a cyclical pop-crossover wave and a structural shift in how the Hot 100 is calculated now that country fans have migrated to streaming platforms in large numbers.
Country fans latch on to the big artists and their biggest hits even more tenaciously than pop fans.
Chris Molanphy, chart analyst, in Slate
Notably, "Choosin' Texas" has achieved its run with only modest support from major pop radio stations, a sign of how streaming has decoupled Hot 100 success from the terrestrial airplay that once defined it.
Whether Langley breaks the record outright next week or simply holds even with it, the song has already reset expectations for how long a country single, or any single without a pop crossover feature, can dominate the industry's most closely watched chart. Langley is expected to tour behind "Dandelion" into the fall, a run that label executives are betting will extend the song's shelf life on country and streaming charts well past its Hot 100 peak.
