Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Breaks Morgan Wallen’s Hot 100 Record

The song logs a 17th week at No. 1, surpassing Wallen’s 16-week run with “Last Night,” as country music continues its chart reign.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is now the second-longest-running No. 1 of the decade on the Billboard Hot 100, logging a 17th week at the top and breaking the 16-week record set by Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” in 2023. Only Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” and Mariah Carey’s perennial “All I Want for Christmas Is You” have spent more weeks in the lead.

The song’s endurance puts Langley in rare territory, even as she opens for Wallen on select dates of his Still the Problem tour. The two are more collaborators than rivals: their duet “I Can’t Love You Anymore” just became Wallen’s 22nd Country Airplay No. 1, and

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