Chart Commentary — MARCH 28, 2026
#1
CHOOSIN’ TEXAS
by Ella Langley (Sawgod/ Columbia)
“CHOOSIN'” WISELY
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” holds for a historic fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song first led in mid-February and added its second week on top at the beginning of March.
“Choosin’ Texas” solely claims the most weeks ever spent atop the Hot 100 for a song by a woman that also hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, one-upping Taylor Swift’s three-week Hot 100 reign with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” in 2012.
DEAN DOUBLES UP
Olivia Dean earns her second Hot 100 top 10 as “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” rises 11-9. Meanwhile, the London-born singer-songwriter’s “Man I Need” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as it logs its fifth nonconsecutive week as runner-up (the most weeks for a No. 2-peaking title by a woman in a lead role since Ariana Grande’s “Problem,” featuring Iggy Azalea, also held the rank for five weeks in 2014; the last such song by a woman and no co-billed artists? Lady Gaga’s seven-week No. 2 anthem “Bad Romance” in 2009-10).
With “Man I Need” having first hit the Hot 100’s top 10 in November, Dean has notched her first two top 10s in less than five months. That’s the fastest accumulation of two initial top 10s for a solo woman since her Island Records labelmate Sabrina Carpenter tallied her first two with “Espresso” in April 2024 and “Please Please Please” less than two months later (with, as with Dean this week, both songs in the top 10 together at the time).
“GOLDEN” BOOST
HUNTR/X’s “Golden” climbs 7-5 on the Hot 100 following eight weeks at No. 1 last August-October. It sports a gain in the week ending March 19, after the trio performed it and it won the Academy Award March 15 for best original song, while parent movie KPop Demon Hunters took home the Oscar for best animated feature.
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.