Langley Morning After: Festival Headline, Hunger Games Song

Ella Langley Choosin’ Texas: The Top Ten Settled Underneath Her

Billboard announced the November 7 chart in its official Hot 100 Top 10 Countdown, and the full top ten underneath Langley has now settled into place. Tate McRae’s “Housewife” stays locked at number two, holding the highest American chart position of her career as a lead artist. “Boston” rises to number three and Morgan Wallen climbs back to number four, while Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” takes a Halloween bump to number five. Adéla’s “Nicole Kidman” rises back to number six, “Expectations” falls to number seven, and Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero,” the song that interrupted Langley’s run for three weeks in October, falls to number eight. Ariana Grande and Karol G both climb back into the top ten behind them. Billboard’s own countdown carries the week in order:

The win itself was built the way the recent ones have been built, on balance rather than a spike: 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. The same chart extends two more runs underneath the headline. On Hot Country Songs, “Choosin’ Texas” reaches 47 weeks at number one, the second-longest run in that chart’s history, and 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 reaches 20 weeks at number one, extending its own record as the longest-running number one that chart has ever had. It has now led the Hot 100 in nine different months, February through November with only June missing, in a year when only nine other songs have reached number one at all.

The chart week also landed on the far side of a very public weekend. Langley had closed her 2026 Dandelion Tour on Saturday, October 31, at a sold-out Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she played Halloween night dressed as Jessie from Toy Story, in braided pigtails, a red cowboy hat, a white and yellow shirt with red fringe, a denim skirt and cow-print accents. Her band played in costume as Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr. Potato Head and the rest of the cast, a theme the group had picked in an October 6 TikTok vote between Toy Story and The Wizard of Oz. Her parents, Jason and Heather Langley, joined the theme and the stage: Heather as Stinky Pete the Prospector, Jason as the Al’s Toy Barn chicken mascot, and both brought on for the tour’s closing shot tradition before her cover of Gretchen Wilson’s “Here For The Party,” after Langley told them, “Come take a shot.” When candy thrown from the crowd started landing at her feet mid-show, she answered it plainly: “I know it’s Halloween, but I ain’t trying to trip and die.” The Instagram carousel she posted on November 1, captioned “Halloween & the last night of tour ❤️ Thank you, St. Paul!!”, had passed 490,000 likes in Fox News’ count by Monday. Asked in St. Paul whether she would tour again in 2027, she answered, “Of course! Who would I be?” Monday’s festival announcement is that answer with a date on it.

Sand In My Boots 2027: Langley Returns As A Headliner

Morgan Wallen announced the return of his Sand In My Boots Festival on Monday, November 2, with Langley and Kings of Leon joining him as headliners for May 21 to 23, 2027, on the beach at Gulf Shores, Alabama. The festival, curated by Wallen with AEG Presents, debuted as a sold-out event in 2025, sat out 2026, and returns for its second edition with a 33-act lineup at 101 E. Beach Blvd. Langley played the inaugural edition in an earlier slot; she comes back at the top of the poster. The rest of the bill mixes country with the sounds around it: Koe Wetzel, Cole Swindell, Gavin Adcock, Midland, Avery Anna, Kameron Marlowe, Hudson Westbrook, Kashus Culpepper, Carter Faith, Corey Kent and Vincent Mason on the country side, Nelly, Flo Rida, Gucci Mane, Rick Ross, Juicy J, Project Pat and the Ying Yang Twins from hip hop, Kygo, Empire of the Sun and Girl Talk from electronic music, and Third Eye Blind from rock.

Wallen framed the return as a step up rather than a repeat. “One thing I’m looking forward to the most about bringing Sand In My Boots Festival back is being able to have new concepts on stage and trying to elevate the experience overall for the fans, myself and other artists on the bill,” he said. “I think it’s going to be really top-notch and we’re going to try to do it even better this time.” The buying dates arrive this week: a local-resident presale for eligible ZIP codes runs from 1 p.m. Central on Thursday, November 5 until 10 a.m. Central on Friday, November 6, when the general pass sale opens at 10 a.m. Central through the festival’s official site. General admission for the three days is listed at $676.87 including taxes and beach-restoration fees, no single-day passes will be sold, and daily opening is currently listed at noon Central. The festival also carries Wallen’s give-back with it: his foundation donated over $200,000 in instruments to five Alabama schools after the 2025 edition, part of more than $2 million contributed to schools in tour cities.

Here Then We’re Gone: A First Film Soundtrack Song

The second booking surfaced on Tuesday morning. Langley will contribute “Here Then We’re Gone” to The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album), out November 13 through MCA Records, one week before the film reaches theatres on November 20. As KFDI’s country minute put it, the song will be the first of hers ever to feature on an official movie soundtrack, let alone one written for a film. The album was executive produced by Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb and gathers 29 artists across country, Americana, rock and pop. Tyler Childers appears with “Old Money” and Stephen Wilson Jr. with “First in Line,” alongside Kacey Musgraves, Kashus Culpepper and Carter Faith, while the wider list runs to Stevie Nicks, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Noah Kahan, Noah Cyrus, Lizzy McAlpine and Violet Grohl, with Jennifer Lawrence contributing “Deep in the Meadow.”

The film, directed by Francis Lawrence from Suzanne Collins’ novel, goes back 24 years before the original Hunger Games story to the morning of the 50th Games, the Second Quarter Quell, with twice the usual number of tributes. Joseph Zada plays the young Haymitch Abernathy, in a cast with Mckenna Grace, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Plemons, Glenn Close, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin and Maya Hawke. A soundtrack slot on a franchise film is a different kind of reach from a chart week: it puts Langley’s voice inside a November tentpole, in front of an audience that does not follow country radio, eight days after her own album cycle produced the longest-running number one in Hot 100 history.

What the morning after sets up is a compressed three weeks. The soundtrack album lands November 13. On Wednesday, November 18, the 60th CMA Awards air live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on ABC, simulcast on Disney+ for the first time and on Hulu the next day, hosted by Lainey Wilson. Langley leads the night with nine nominations, including her first for Entertainer of the Year: “Choosin’ Texas” is up for Song, Single and Music Video of the Year, “Be Her” is also nominated for Song and Single, Dandelion is up for Album of the Year, and her Morgan Wallen collaboration “I Can’t Love You Anymore” is nominated for Musical Event of the Year. The film follows on November 20. After that comes the chart’s hardest test, December, when Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” the song whose 22-week record Langley passed in September, returns to the top of the chart as it does every holiday season, and when four more weeks on Hot Country Songs would carry “Choosin’ Texas” past a second all-time record. Half a year at number one was the headline yesterday. A festival headline, a film song and the biggest night in country music are what it bought by Tuesday.