Ella Langley extended her Billboard Hot 100 record as “Choosin’ Texas” spent its 27th week at No. 1 on the chart dated Nov. 14. That puts the country single five weeks ahead of the next song on Billboard’s all-time list, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

“Choosin’ Texas” first reached No. 1 on the chart dated Feb. 14. Its 27 weeks at the top came in several stretches. The song fell to No. 5 in late May, returned to No. 1 in July and reclaimed the lead again in late October. By November, it had spent more than a year on the Hot 100.

How ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Held the Lead

The Hot 100 combines U.S. streams, radio airplay and sales across genres. In the tracking week ending Nov. 5, Billboard reported 53 million radio audience impressions, 18.8 million official streams and 4,000 sales for “Choosin’ Texas.” The week’s runner-up, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” led Billboard’s separate streaming and digital sales charts after Halloween, but drew 11.3 million radio audience impressions. Langley’s tally on radio was nearly five times as high.

The single was already a Hot 100 No. 1 before Ella Langley released its official music video on April 1. Langley co-directed the video with Wales Toney and Caylee Robillard. Nine days later, the song appeared on her second album, Dandelion, which she executive produced with Miranda Lambert and Ben West.

Lambert also joins Langley on “Butterfly Season,” the album’s only guest vocal. Another track, “Speaking Terms,” earned Langley a 2026 Dove Award nomination for Country/Roots Recorded Song of the Year.