Ella Langley holds number one on the Billboard Hot 100 dated November 7 with “Choosin’ Texas,” which reaches 26 weeks at the summit. The week makes “Choosin’ Texas” the first song in the chart’s history to spend over half a calendar year at number one.
Billboard announced the new chart on Monday, November 2, in its Hot 100 Top 10 Countdown for the November 7 chart. The song stays on top for a second straight week after returning to number one last week, and its record, which it has owned outright since September, now sits four weeks clear of every other song that has ever led the Hot 100.
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Ella Langley Choosin’ Texas 26 Weeks: The Numbers Holding The Summit
The latest week was won the same way the recent ones have been won, on consistency across all three parts of the Hot 100 formula. Reporting on the November 7 chart puts “Choosin’ Texas” at 19.2 million official streams in the United States, 57.8 million radio airplay audience impressions and 3,000 copies sold in the tracking week. No single figure is a spike. The streaming total is a little below the 20 million the song posted a week earlier, the radio figure remains the largest of any song near the top of the chart, and the blend of the three is still enough to hold off a top ten that Billboard notes is producing new highs underneath it, for Adela’s “Nicole Kidman,” Tate McRae’s “Housewife” and Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula.”
That staying power is now the story in itself. “Choosin’ Texas” has topped the Hot 100 in nine different months, ruling at some point from February through November with the only break coming in June. Across the whole of 2026, only nine other songs have reached number one at all, among them Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” and “I Knew It, I Knew You,” Drake’s “Janice STFU” and Bad Bunny’s “DtMF.” Swift’s three weeks with “Patient Zero” in October are the longest interruption the song has faced since the summer, and even that run ended with Langley returning to the top, as iimiTV reported when the song extended its record to 25 weeks on the chart dated October 31.
A Record Built Across Nine Months
“Choosin’ Texas” was released on October 17, 2025, as the lead single from Langley’s second album, Dandelion. Langley wrote it with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor, and Lambert also sings background vocals on the recording. The song debuted on the Hot 100 in November 2025 as Langley’s fifth career entry on the chart, climbed into the top ten in January and reached number one for the first time in February. It has been returning to the summit ever since, through the spring, the summer and now into November.
The all-time record fell in September, when the song reached 23 weeks at number one and passed the 22 weeks accumulated by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” across its holiday seasons. Langley reacted to that moment in a video posted the day the record was announced. “I’m genuinely trying to find the words to explain what’s going on in my brain today,” she said. “Thank you so much for loving this song, for listening to it. It’s changing my life. It’s changing the lives of the writers of this song. It’s changing the lives of my family.” She added that the day did not feel like a real thing, and that it felt fake. Three chart months later, the song she was describing is still the number one song in the United States.
The table behind it now reads like a different era of the chart. Carey’s 22 weeks stand second, ahead of Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, tied at 19 weeks, and Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night,” Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day,” each at 16. “Choosin’ Texas” leads the second-place song by four weeks, a gap no previous record holder ever built.
The Country Charts Underneath The Hot 100 Run
The same week extends two more runs on Billboard’s component and genre charts. On Hot Country Songs, “Choosin’ Texas” reaches 47 weeks at number one, the second-longest run in that chart’s history. It now needs four more weeks on top to pass the 50 weeks set by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be.” On Digital Song Sales, the song extends its own record as the longest-running number one in that chart’s history, reaching 20 weeks at the summit.
The single also carried an album cycle with it. Dandelion, released in April 2026, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and Langley became one of only two women in history to hold the number one album and the number one song in the United States at the same time with a country album and a country song. The song is the only country recording by a woman to top the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts simultaneously, and it remains the longest-running number one by a female artist this century on the Hot 100 by a wide and still growing margin.
What The November 7 Chart Sets Up Next
The challengers are not standing still. Canadian star Tate McRae, whose “Housewife” debuted at number two a week ago as her highest-charting American single as a lead artist, is among the songs Billboard flags at a new high on the November 7 countdown, alongside Adela and the Tame Impala and Jennie collaboration. Each new week also brings the calendar closer to December, when Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” traditionally returns to the top of the chart and adds to its own total, including four weeks at number one during the 2025 holiday season.
That fight, though, is now over second place in the record book unless “Choosin’ Texas” keeps going. Half a year at number one was a line no song had crossed in the 68-year history of the Hot 100, from its first chart in August 1958 to this week. Ella Langley crossed it on the November 7 chart, in the song’s 26th week at the top, with the record still moving.
