{"id":50747,"date":"2026-09-23T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=50747"},"modified":"2026-09-23T06:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:16:31","slug":"choosin-texas-becomes-the-all-time-longest-leading-1-in-billboard-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/choosin-texas-becomes-the-all-time-longest-leading-1-in-billboard-history\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221; Becomes The All-Time Longest Leading #1 In Billboard History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ella Langley<\/strong> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/ella-langley-choosin-texas-hot-100-number-one-chart-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">officially<\/a> made Billboard history.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> is now the longest-leading #1 song on the Hot 100 with 23 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was previously tied at 22 weeks with <strong>Mariah Carey&#8217;s<\/strong> <em><strong>&#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song has also become the longest-running No. 1 single by a female artist in Canada and is currently nominated for three CMA Awards and four MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ella posted a video thanking fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m genuinely trying to find the words to explain what&#8217;s going on in my brain today . . . Thank you so much. \u00a0It&#8217;s changing my life. \u00a0It&#8217;s changing the lives of the writers of this song.\u00a0 It&#8217;s changing the lives of my family and it is truly growing an atmosphere for something I&#8217;m gonna be able to do the rest of my life and . . . today doesn&#8217;t feel like a real thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ddm5GniAPXP\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ella Langley has officially made Billboard history.\u00a0 &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221; is now the longest-leading #1 song on the Hot 100 with 23 weeks. It was previously tied at 22 weeks with Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221;. The song has also become the longest-running No. 1 single by a female artist in Canada","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":48501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2515,213,6848,5540,3481,649],"class_list":["post-50747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you","tag-billboard","tag-choosin-texas","tag-ella-langley","tag-mariah-carey","tag-record"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 03:16:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/choosin-texas-becomes-the-all-time-longest-leading-1-in-billboard-history\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50748,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50747\/revisions\/50748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}