Ella Langley sets Billboard record with 23-week chart run
Ella Langley’s country ballad “Choosin’ Texas” has spent 23 weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, surpassing Mariah Carey’s previous record with “All I Want for Christmas Is You”. Billboard said the ranking combines streaming, radio play and sales data compiled by Luminate.
Ella Langley’s country ballad “Choosin’ Texas” has broken a record for the longest run at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100, according to the magazine. The song has held the No. 1 position for 23 weeks, overtaking Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You”.
Carey’s song had previously held the record identified in the report. Billboard’s ranking takes account of streaming, radio play and sales. The magazine said the figures are compiled by Luminate.
The report said Langley released “Choosin’ Texas” in October, but did not provide a more precise release date. Langley, 27, marked the achievement in a video posted to Instagram. She said the result was changing her life, as well as the lives of the song’s writers and members of her family.
The singer is from Alabama. The available report did not give the song’s streaming, sales or radio figures, nor did it detail how closely its performance compared with Carey’s record before the record was surpassed. The new mark gives Langley a place in the chart’s record history through a sustained run at No.
1 across the combined Billboard measures.
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