Ella Langley leads Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart for the first time, rising to No. 1 on the Jan. 31-dated tally with “Choosin’ Texas.”
In the week ending Jan. 22, the song accumulated 18 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate.
Langley’s first ruler comes with her fourth song to reach the survey, nearly three months after the track’s No. 35 debut. She first appeared on Streaming Songs with “You Look Like You Love Me,” featuring Riley Green (No. 20 peak, 2024), and followed with “Weren’t for the Wind” (which, after debuting in 2025, reached a No. 20 high in early January) and as featured on BigXthaPlug’s “Hell at Night” (No. 17, 2025).
“Choosin’ Texas” becomes just the fourth country song by a lead woman to top Streaming Songs in the chart’s 13-year history (of 174 total No. 1s), following Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” in 2024, Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (2023-24) and Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” (2021). Two additional No. 1s are by women in featured roles: Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae (2025), and Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves (2023). (Country songs are defined as those eligible for and/or that have hit Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.)
Of that group, “Choosin’ Texas” is the first song to have made the top five (or even top 25) of Country Airplay. It places at No. 2 on the Jan. 31 tally, with Langley looking to collect her third leader on the list and second as a lead act, following “You Look Like You Love Me” and Green’s “Don’t Mind If I Do,” on which she’s featured.
“Choosin’ Texas” concurrently ranks at No. 6 on the all-genre, multimetric Billboard Hot 100, after spending two weeks (Jan. 10-17) at a No. 5 best. It has led Hot Country Songs for the past nine weeks and Country Streaming Songs for four frames. It also logs its first crossover on a radio chart, debuting at No. 35 on Adult Pop Airplay.
The tune is the lead single from Dandelion, Langley’s second studio album, set for an April 10 release.
