Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' Claims Summer 2026 Crown as 15-Week No. 1 Run Looms
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Updated · Rolling Stone · Jul 28
Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' Claims Summer 2026 Crown as 15-Week No. 1 Run Looms
3 articles · Updated · Rolling Stone · Jul 28
Summary
Billboard's Summer Songs chart already has Ella Langley's “Choosin' Texas” in front, and the latest report argues it has effectively become summer 2026's defining hit.
15 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 would let the song surpass Whitney Houston's “I Will Always Love You” and Mariah Carey's “We Belong Together” as the longest-leading non-holiday song by a woman.
TikTok traction, country-radio play and club remixes have kept the track omnipresent since its October release, with even rival Drake playing it during a DJ set.
The report says some critics still resist crowning it because its sound is unapologetically country; no woman has ever had a country song named Billboard's Song of the Summer since tracking began in 1958.