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Every Billboard Record Ella Langley Has Broken in 2026
Every Billboard chart record Ella Langley holds in 2026 — Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay — with the mark she beat and who held it before.
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Trying to keep track of the Ella Langley Billboard records in 2026 has turned into a part-time job. She has broken marks on four different charts this year, some of them held by names like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Gabby Barrett, and the coverage arrives one headline at a time with no running tally anywhere. So we built the tally.
Below is every chart record we can source to a named publication, what the old number was, and who held it. We update this page the Monday after any new milestone, so the dates on each line tell you exactly how current it is.
Hot 100 — most weeks at No. 1 by a woman with no co-billed act, holiday songs excluded. 15 weeks, "Choosin' Texas," through the chart reported July 27, 2026. Previously: Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," 14 weeks each.
Hot Country Songs — longest-running No. 1 by a solo woman in the chart's history, which dates to 1958. 28 weeks and counting, "Choosin' Texas," as of the chart dated June 27, 2026. Previously: Gabby Barrett's "I Hope," 27 weeks.
Country Airplay — first woman ever with three songs in the top 10 in the same week. Chart dated June 13, 2026. Previously: nobody. Only Morgan Wallen had ever done it at all, for one week in 2023.
Hot Country Songs — second woman ever to hold the entire top three. Chart dated May 9, 2026. Previously: Beyoncé, for one week in 2024.
Country Airplay — her own longest-leading No. 1. 4 weeks, "Be Her." Previously: her own "Choosin' Texas," 3 nonconsecutive weeks.
This is the big one. "Choosin' Texas" logged a 15th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, which makes it the longest-running No. 1 by a woman with no co-billed act once you set holiday songs aside, per Billboard. The two records it passed had stood since 2005 and 1992 respectively: Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," both at 14 weeks.
What makes the run strange is the shape of it. Billboard reported 25.2 million official U.S. streams and 51.9 million in radio airplay audience in the week-15 tracking period — both up from week 14. Songs this deep into a No. 1 run almost always sag. This one is still growing. We walked through the week-by-week numbers in our post on the 15-week record.
The next mark on the board is the all-time one: 16 weeks, shared by "One Sweet Day," "Despacito" and "Last Night." One more week on top ties all three.
On the genre chart, "Choosin' Texas" passed Gabby Barrett's "I Hope" (27 weeks, 2020-21) to become the longest-running No. 1 by a solo woman in Hot Country Songs history, a chart that goes back to 1958, per Billboard. That was the chart dated June 27, 2026, at 28 weeks, and the song has not left the top since.
Only three titles have ever led that chart longer, and every one of them is a duet or a male-led hit: "Meant to Be" (50 weeks), "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" (45) and "Body Like a Back Road" (34). Among solo women, nobody has come close. Full context in our write-up of the Hot Country Songs record.
She also owns a rarer one on the same chart: on the ranking dated May 9, 2026, she became just the second woman ever to claim the entire top three, matching a mark Beyoncé set for a single week in 2024, per Billboard.
Country radio is the slowest room in music to win, which is why this one matters. On the Country Airplay chart dated June 13, 2026, Langley became the first woman in history to hold three top 10 slots in the same week — "Be Her" at No. 1, "Choosin' Texas" back up to No. 5, and her Morgan Wallen duet "I Can't Love You Anymore" at No. 10, per Billboard. The only other artist to do it at all is Morgan Wallen, for one week in 2023.
Two weeks later, "Be Her" held No. 1 for a fourth straight week — her longest-leading Country Airplay hit ever, and a run that ties Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me" and Reba McEntire's "Consider Me Gone" as the longest by a solo-billed woman since Taylor Swift's "Our Song."
Records are usually about one song. This one is about the whole album. On the Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week of June 6, 2026, nine Ella Langley titles were charting simultaneously — the top three plus "Loving Life Again," "Dandelion," "Bottom of Your Boots," "Butterfly Season," "Broken" and "You & Me Time." We counted them all in nine at once.
That is the difference between a hit and a catalog, and it is the number we would point to if someone asked which of these records is hardest to repeat.
- 30 million monthly Spotify listeners, passed in early June 2026 — on the country side of the platform, only Morgan Wallen is ahead of her. See the streaming milestone.
- A seven-for-seven ACM Awards night, taking Female Artist of the Year plus six more trophies and finishing as the most-awarded artist of the ceremony. We looked at what the sweep actually changed sixty days later.
- Dandelion debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in April 2026, her first album to do it.
Three are genuinely in play as of this week:
- Hot 100 week 16. One more Monday on top ties the all-time non-holiday record. Two ties nothing — it stands alone.
- Hot Country Songs, week 30-plus. No solo woman has been here; every additional week extends a record only she holds.
- A fourth Country Airplay No. 1. "Loving Life Again" is the fastest-rising song at country radio right now, up 272 spins in a single tracking week two weeks after impact.
Fifteen on the Hot 100, and 28-plus on Hot Country Songs — two different charts, two different counts, which is where most of the confusion online comes from. The Hot 100 counts all genres and all formats; Hot Country Songs counts only country. A song can lose the Hot 100 and keep the country crown for months. The full release history, writers and week-by-week run live on the Choosin' Texas song page, and if you want the story behind the lyrics, we broke down what "Choosin' Texas" is actually about.
The Dandelion Tour is mid-run, and a fair number of these dates have happened with the song sitting at No. 1 the whole time. Every remaining city, venue, on-stage time and ticket link is on our Ella Langley tour hub, and if you are still deciding where to sit, our best seats guide breaks down floor versus lower bowl versus lawn. Going in the next couple of weeks? Our Arena Night look is what we would wear.
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Frequently asked questions
How many weeks has Choosin' Texas been No. 1?
Fifteen weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 as of the chart reported July 27, 2026, and 28-plus weeks at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs as of the chart dated June 27, 2026. They are two different charts with two different counts, which is where most of the online confusion comes from.
What Billboard records does Ella Langley hold?
Most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 by a woman with no co-billed act excluding holiday songs (15), longest-running Hot Country Songs No. 1 by a solo woman in the chart's history since 1958 (28 and counting), first woman ever with three simultaneous Country Airplay top 10s, and second woman ever to hold the entire Hot Country Songs top three.
Whose Hot 100 record did Ella Langley break?
Mariah Carey's 'We Belong Together' and Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You,' which had shared the mark at 14 weeks each. The next target is the all-time non-holiday record of 16 weeks, shared by 'One Sweet Day,' 'Despacito' and 'Last Night.'
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