'Choosin' Texas' has led the Hot 100 for 18 weeks. Will Ella Langley reach a 20th week on the Sept 5 chart?
73% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 22 predictions cast.
Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" led the Billboard Hot 100 for a 20th consecutive week on the chart dated September 5, 2026, extending its own record for the longest reign atop the chart among non-holiday songs. Langley co-wrote the single with Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor. The country crossover hit had already broken the previous record for longest-running Hot 100 number one earlier in its chart run and continued to outpace competing releases through late summer, with no rival single generating enough combined streaming, airplay and sales activity to unseat it. Billboard's chart team noted the run as part of a broader pattern in 2026, a year that has produced an unusually large number of long-tenured number ones. Country radio and streaming services continued to drive the song's numbers well past the point where most number ones typically fade, a run that outlasted competing summer releases from other genres. The community forecast this outcome accurately, with 73 percent predicting Langley would reach a 20th week, and the song's continued dominance bore that out.