Chart Commentary — MARCH 7, 2026
#1
CHOOSIN’ TEXAS
by Ella Langley (Sawgod/ Columbia)
“TEXAS” TWO STEPS BACK TO #1
After hitting #1 and then getting a two-week respite, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” twirls back to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, adding a second week atop the chart. Up from the runner-up spot, it first led the list three weeks earlier. Meanwhile, as “Choosin’ Texas” rules the Hot 100, Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9 debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart — making Langley and Moroney the first women who primarily record country music to lead Billboard’s premier all-genre song and album charts simultaneously, dating to the Hot 100’s August 1958 inception (after the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis March 1956; in four other weeks, men/women/group combinations placed country music at No. 1 on the surveys together, but not two women in the same week).
A NOT SO “ORDINARY” FEAT
Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” ascends 5-3 on the Hot 100 after 10 weeks at No. 1 last June-August. It claims a 33rd week in the Hot 100’s top three, rewriting the record for the most time logged in the medal region, breaking out of a tie with Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” (The carol is set to continue challenging for the feat, given its annual resurgence, along with Brenda Lee’s holiday classic, below.)
Most Weeks in Hot 100’s Top 3:
33, “Ordinary,” Alex Warren, 2025-26
32, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey, 2019-26
29, “As It Was,” Harry Styles, 2022
28, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Brenda Lee, 2019-26
27, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey, 2024-25
26, “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen, 2023
Jarrett Nolan
I was born a poor Black child into a family that put the “fun” in dysfunction. But through that fun, there was A LOT of music. At a very young age, my parents introduced me to everything ranging from Doo Wop to the British Invasion to Motown to Philly Soul to Psychedlic Rock to Funk.
Since I’m a Jersey boy born-n-bred, I landed a job at WHTZ (Z100) as a producer. I gave the DJs info about artists to read on-air – most of mine were chart-related, naturally.
I did double duty at WSBG, a small market radio station in the Poconos, as a DJ because I have a face for radio.
Through a random twist of fate, I wound up at BMG Distribution in Times Square. Shortly after, I ended up at Arista (shouldn’t have done that!). My career in the music industry ended with a stint at being a personal assistant to alterna-rap act PM Dawn.