'Choosin' Texas' Ties Mariah Carey's All-Time Hot 100 Record With a 22nd Week at No. 1

We keep thinking Ella has run out of records to break, and she keeps proving us wrong. On the Billboard Hot 100 dated September 14, "Choosin' Texas" logged its 22nd week at No. 1 — which means it has now tied the single most untouchable number in modern chart history. Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has sat alone at the top of the all-time list with 22 weeks at No. 1. As of this week, Ella is sitting right next to her.

Think about what that actually means. Mariah's holiday classic collected those 22 weeks across multiple Decembers, stacking up return trips to the summit season after season since it first hit No. 1 in 2019. "Choosin' Texas" got there in one unbroken run, in one calendar year, as a brand-new country song. That is not the same math at all, and it makes what Ella has done feel almost hard to process.

The road here has been one milestone after another. A few weeks back, the song's 20th week at No. 1 pushed it past both Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" and Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" for the most total weeks on top among non-holiday hits, per Billboard. We covered the 21st week and the Hot 100 history it was chasing just a few days ago. Now the record isn't a target on the horizon — it's a tie, right now.

And here's the part that has all of us refreshing the charts: one more week. If "Choosin' Texas" holds at No. 1 for a 23rd week, Ella Langley would own the longest-running No. 1 in the entire history of the Billboard Hot 100 — outright, no asterisk, no shared line. GoldDerby notes the run is already reshaping her Grammy odds, and it's easy to see why.

If you still haven't heard the song that started all of this, our breakdown of what "Choosin' Texas" is really about is a good place to start. And if you want to hear it live while she's rewriting the record books, check the latest tour dates — these rooms are selling out fast, and for very good reason.

Twenty-two weeks. Tied with Mariah. We are watching country music history happen in real time, and we would not want to be anywhere else.