Ella Langley’s "Choosin’ Texas" breaks Hot Country Songs chart record for women

Ella Langley ’s “Choosin’ Texas” spends a 28th week at No. 1 on Billboard ’s Hot Country Songs chart (dated June 13), adding another record to its run. The song passes Gabby Barrett’s 2020-21 hit “I Hope” as the longest-leading hit by a woman with no other credited recording artists since the survey became the genre’s main songs chart in 1958.

(Charlie Puth joined for a pop remix of “I Hope,” but wasn’t listed on Hot Country Songs.)

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“Choosin’ Texas” totaled 27 million official U.S. streams, 48.9 million radio audience impressions and 8,000 sales May 22-28, according to Luminate.

Only three songs have logged more weeks at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs than “Choosin’ Texas”: Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be,” which ruled for 50 weeks in 2017-18; Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”(45 weeks, 2024-25); and Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” (34 weeks, 2017).

“Choosin’ Texas” debuted at No. 7 on Hot Country Songs in November and has reigned each week since early December. It has also dominated the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks since February.

Plus, Langley has claimed the top three on Hot Country Songs for five weeks running, with “Choosin’ Texas” followed by “Be Her” at No. 2 and “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” with Morgan Wallen, at No. 3. No other woman has notched such a triple for multiple weeks.

Langey cowrote “Choosin’ Texas” with Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor and coproduced it with Lambert and Ben West.

“It was such a crazy moment,” the Alabama native previously told Billboard about finding out that “Choosin’ Texas” had first topped the Hot 100. “My label called, with my team on speaker, and it was just surreal. We loved the song when we wrote it, but none of us thought that it would be the song to do everything it’s doing. It keeps giving us a reason to celebrate new milestones.”

_Originally reported by [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/ella-langley-choosin-texas-hot-country-songs-record-women-1236267956/)._