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One song has been No. 1 since February. It just beat Mariah.
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” logged its 23rd week atop the Billboard Hot 100 on September 22, the longest run in the chart’s history. The previous record was 22 weeks, held by “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
The AP report carried by KCBD on September 22 has the receipts: a midtempo country heartbreak song released last October, now past marks set by “Old Town Road,” “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and “I Will Always Love You.” Luminate counts 911 million on-demand U.S. streams. Spotify’s Claire Heinichen says it “started big” on country playlists and then kept working on all-genre ones.
Why it matters beyond the chart: Langley began 2023 with under a million monthly Spotify listeners and now has over 32 million, according to the same report. If you have never chosen this song on purpose, that is sort of the point. It shows up on everyone’s playlists, so it never leaves the top spot.
The receipts
- KCBD (AP): Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” becomes longest-running No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 · 2026-09-22
- NPR: Why “Choosin’ Texas” is the longest-running No. 1 in Hot 100 history · 2026-09-22
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