Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" Hits 26 Weeks at No. 1

We've spent most of this year tracking what "Choosin' Texas" is doing to the Hot 100, but the quieter record is the one we'd circle this week. As of the chart dated for the week of June 6, "Choosin' Texas" has spent 26 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, and Parade reports it has now passed Morgan Wallen's "Last Night" to become the fifth-longest-running No. 1 in the entire history of the chart. For a single still climbing, that's the number we keep staring at.

What 26 weeks at No. 1 actually means

Hot Country Songs has been the genre's main songs ranking since 1958. In nearly seven decades, only four titles have ever sat on top longer than "Choosin' Texas" has now, and Ella Langley wrote her way past one of the most dominant country songs of the streaming era to get here. Passing "Last Night" is not a footnote — that record was the wall everything else in modern country measured itself against.

The view among women is just as striking. When the song hit its 20th week, Billboard noted it had become one of the longest-running female-led No. 1s in the chart's history, trailing only Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's "Meant to Be" (50 weeks) and Gabby Barrett's "I Hope" (27 weeks). Six weeks later, that math is tightening fast: one more week on top ties "I Hope" for the second-longest run by a woman in chart history, behind only "Meant to Be."

It's blocking her own songs now

The strangest sign of how big this is: "Choosin' Texas" keeps getting in its own way. Per Parade, the song's grip on the top spot has kept Langley's other releases — including "Be Her" and her Morgan Wallen collaboration "I Can't Love You Anymore" — from reaching No. 1, and she currently holds four positions inside the Digital Song Sales top 10. When the main thing standing between you and a second chart-topper is your own first one, you've stopped competing with the field.

Where this sits in her year

This lands the same week she crossed 30 million monthly Spotify listeners and a few days after she swept her ACM categories, so the chart record is one line in a much longer ledger — and we've been keeping that ledger all spring, back to the song's 10th week atop the Hot 100. If you're new to all of this, our running guide to every record she's set lays out the full picture, and our ranking of every Ella Langley song puts "Choosin' Texas" next to the rest of the catalog.

We said weeks ago that the floor under this song still wasn't close. Twenty-six weeks in, with the women's runner-up record one week away and a tour rolling through the summer, we're not