Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” tallies a 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — tying a pair of iconic songs for more historic heights.
The single, which first led the Hot 100 in February, matches Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” for the most weeks at No. 1 among non-holiday titles by women with no male-billed acts. Adding in Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” “Choosin’ Texas” ties for the second-longest command among songs by only women.
Here’s an updated rundown, ranked by most weeks at No. 1, of the longest-leading Hot 100 hits billed solely to women over the chart’s archives, which date to August 1958:
- 22 weeks (the overall record), “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey, 2019-26
- 14, “Choosin’ Texas,” Ella Langley, 2026
- 14, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, 2005
- 14, “I Will Always Love You,” Whitney Houston, 1992-93
- 13, “The Boy Is Mine,” Brandy & Monica, 1998
- 11, “Independent Women Part I,” Destiny’s Child, 2000-01
- 11, “Un-Break My Heart,” Toni Braxton, 1996-97
Elsewhere, Stella Lefty achieves her first Hot 100 top 10, as “Boston” bounds to No. 6, and Olivia Dean has the newly-minted biggest song on radio, as “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” tops the Radio Songs chart, while continuing its run in the Hot 100’s top 10.
Read on for details of the entire top 10 on this week’s Hot 100.
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‘Choosin’ Texas’ Streams, Airplay & Sales
“Choosin’ Texas,” on SAWGOD/Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having overseen promotion of the song to country radio, totaled 24 million official streams (down 4% week over week), 51 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1%) and 7,000 sold (essentially even) in the United States July 10-16.
It holds in place on the three all-genre charts that feed the Hot 100: It’s No. 1 on Streaming Songs for a 15th week; No. 6, after reaching No. 4, on Radio Songs; and No. 1 on Digital Song Sales for a 13th week.
“Choosin’ Texas” also leads the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a 32nd week and Songs of the Summer for a seventh sweltering week.
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Ella & Dolly
When “Choosin’ Texas” notched its 11th week atop the Hot 100, it became the sole longest-leading country title by a woman (defined as those that have appeared on Hot Country Songs), surpassing Debby Boone’s 1977 smash “You Light Up My Life.”
Now, “Choosin’ Texas” equals the run of another song with a famed country pedigree: Dolly Parton wrote fellow 14-week Hot 100 No. 1 “I Will Always Love You,” which, as noted above, led for Whitney Houston in 1992-93. Parton sent two of her versions of the ballad to No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, in 1974 and 1982.
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Stella Lefty’s First Top 10
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Stella Lefty earns her first Hot 100 top 10, as “Boston” surges six spots to No. 6 with 16 million streams (up 7%), 21 million in airplay audience (up 22%) and 2,000 sold (up 12%). On Hot Country Songs, it rebounds to its No. 4 high.
As the song in April became the singer-songwriter’s first Hot 100 hit, she is the first woman to reach the top 10 with an initial entry that’s a country title since Gabby Barrett, whose “I Hope” rose to No. 3 in 2020. Since then, two other acts have sent country songs that doubled as first Hot 100 hits to the top 10, both in 2023: Oliver Anthony Music, with “Rich Men North of Richmond” (two weeks at No. 1), and Zach Bryan, with “Something in the Orange” (No. 10).
Notably, Noah Kahan receives writing credit, with Stella Lefty, among others, on “Boston,” as it interpolates his “Stick Season.” “Boston” has now charted higher than Kahan’s original, which reached No. 9 in 2024.
Plus, “Boston” marks the first Hot 100 top 10 for the Atlantic Outpost imprint, which launched last year.
Also per the winning streak for “Boston” (not the only one currently), it’s the second Hot 100 top 10 to name-check the city in its title, after Dave Loggins’ “Please Come to Boston,” which hit No. 5 in 1974. Plus, the band Boston boasts four top 10s, including the 1986 No. 1 “Amanda.”
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‘Easy’ Does It
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Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” becomes the most-heard song on radio, rising a spot to No. 1 on Radio Songs (62.9 million, in line with the previous week). It’s her second leader on the chart, after “Man I Need” was No. 1 for three weeks in February. (The songs have shared space in the top 10 each week since the start of April.)
As the tracks mark Dean’s first two Radio Songs hits, she’s the first artist to lead on her first two tries since Lewis Capaldi, who did so with “Someone You Loved” and “Before You Go” in 2019-20, just after Lizzo arrived with the No. 1s “Truth Hurts” and “Good as Hell” in 2019. Before that, Adele became the only artist to take her first three Radio Songs entries to No. 1, in 2011-12: “Rolling in the Deep,” “Someone Like You” and “Set Fire to the Rain.”
On the Hot 100, “Man I Need” rises 10-8, after hitting No. 2, and “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” holds at No. 9, after reaching No. 5.
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Rest of Top 10: Swift & More
Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” is No. 2 on the Hot 100 for a fourth consecutive week, after it spent its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1 in June.
Ella Langley charts two more songs in the Hot 100’s top 10: “Be Her” holds at No. 3 after reaching No. 2 and “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” with Morgan Wallen, dips to No. 7 from its No. 4 high.
Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” climbs 6-4 after it led the Hot 100 in its debut week in May.
Tame Impala and JENNIE’s “Dracula” repeats at its No. 5 Hot 100 best. It tops the multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a 28th week and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs for a 10th week.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might,” which debuted at No. 1 in January and led for three weeks through March, holds at No. 10. It rules the multimetric Hot R&B Songs chart for a 27th week and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for a 20th week, becoming just the fifth song to reach the milestone on the latter list, whose history dates to October 1958.
