Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” spends a third week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, leading the March 21-dated ranking with 33.8 million in audience March 6-12 (up less than 1%), according to Luminate.
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The song returned to No. 1 a week earlier after a three-week absence, the longest gap before reclaiming the top spot in the chart’s history. Its three-week run at the top also matches the longest Country Airplay run for Triple Tigers (with the song on SAWGOD/Columbia, with radio promotion by Triple Tigers). Triple Tigers previously (and aptly) tripled up via Scotty McCreery’s “Damn Strait” in 2022.
“Choosin’ Texas” ties Lainey Wilson’s “Watermelon Moonshine” (2023) and Gabby Barrett’s “I Hope” (2020) for the most weeks at No. 1 on Country Airplay for a song by a woman and no other billed acts in the past decade and a half. The last to reign longer? 2010 four-week chart-topper “The House That Built Me” by Miranda Lambert, one of the cowriters and coproducers of “Choosin’ Texas.”
Zooming out further, only 14 songs by women and no other credited acts have spent more than three weeks at the summit since Country Airplay launched in 1990. Leading that group are three six-week No. 1s: Taylor Swift’s “Our Song” (2007-08), Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus, Take the Wheel” (2006) and Faith Hill’s “Breathe” (1999-2000). Five have ruled for five weeks and six others, for four.
(As for collaborations with women since the start of the 2010s, Dustin Lynch’s “Thinking ‘Bout You,” featuring MacKenzie Porter, was No. 1 for six weeks in 2021-22 and Koe Wetzel and Jessie Murph’s “High Road” led for five in 2024-25.)
Extended stays atop Country Airplay remain relatively uncommon overall. Since the chart debuted, 209 songs, or about 21% of all No. 1s, have spent at least three weeks in the lead. Roughly half of those have ruled for exactly three weeks.
Country Airplay has historically been dominated by solo male artists, who account for 66% of the chart’s total No. 1 songs. Duos and groups represent a far smaller share of the sum (15%), while solo women make up an even narrower slice (11%). Collaborations account for the remaining 8%. That imbalance has helped make longer runs by women stand out when they occur.
