Ella Langley "Choosin' Texas" Sets Hot 100 Record — "23 Weeks" | A Song for Today's News

(Story from September 22, 2026) This Week in Song — Sep 14–20, 2026:    • This Week in Song — Sep 14–20, 2026 | 6 Tr...   Every day, one true story, one song. An original song based on a true story from today's news. Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" has now spent 23 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — more weeks at the top than any song since the chart began in August 1958. Billboard announced it on Tuesday, September 22, on the chart dated September 26, 2026. The song it passed is "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey, which reached 22 weeks at No. 1 across the winters from 2019 to 2026. Behind them are "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" and "Old Town Road", with 19 weeks each. "Choosin' Texas" came out in October 2025 and was Ella Langley's fifth entry on the Hot 100. It reached the top 10 in January and first went to No. 1 on the chart dated February 14, 2026. It is a midtempo country heartbreak song — a woman loses someone to another woman, and to Texas, and decides not to fight for him. Four songwriters share the credit. By mid-August it had been streamed 911 million times in the United States and 1.26 billion times worldwide, according to Luminate. In the U.S. week of September 11–17 it drew 58.3 million radio airplay impressions. "It feels surreal," Langley told Billboard News this year. Asked why this one connected, she said: "I don't know. I really don't." This is not that song. This is a new, original song about what it is like when one song will not leave the radio — the kitchens, the trucks, the red lights, coast to coast. Sources: https://www.billboard.com/lists/ella-... https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStor... Lyrics: [Verse 1] A kitchen radio in the morning, a truck on the highway and somebody at a red light, singing along Same song again, the one from back in winter a slow country heartbreaker that will not go away [Verse 2] It came out last October, just one more song on the air her fifth song on the chart, and this one climbed By January you knew it. By February, nothing sat above it and it kept coming back to the top [Pre-Chorus] Count them up, week after week after week until this week, when twenty-two fell behind [Chorus] Twenty-three weeks at number one longer than any song has ever run The Christmas song held twenty-two through all those winters and now a country heartbreak song holds the record Turn it up. It is still playing somewhere Twenty-three weeks, and still going [Verse 3] Streamed more times than anyone can count on the radio, more listeners than a stadium could hold A few other names are on it beside hers It feels surreal, she said. And she cannot say why [Bridge] Someday a song nobody has heard yet will pass it and somebody else will count the weeks But this week, in the kitchens and the trucks coast to coast, the radio is hers The Christmas song will still have every December and this one has more weeks than any song before [Chorus] Twenty-three weeks at number one longer than any song has ever run The Christmas song held twenty-two through all those winters and now a country heartbreak song holds the record Turn it up. It is still playing somewhere Twenty-three weeks, and still going [end] Vocals: Lily (AI voice) ▶ Subscribe for a new song every day:    / @songsoftodaymusic