Chart Commentary — MAY 23, 2026

AN IMPERFECT 10

Ella Langley adds her latest week of chart history as “Choosin’ Texas” tallies a 10th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Only 4% of all leaders over the survey’s 67-year archives have reached the milestone — and the achievement is even rarer among country hits.

The song, which tops multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a 25th week, is one of just four songs to have ruled the Hot 100 for 10 or more weeks and made the Hot Country Songs top five; notably, three have done so in the last three-plus years. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” led the lists for 19 and 45 weeks, respectively, in 2024-25, following Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” (16 and 25 weeks in 2023). Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” became the first song ever to dominate the Hot 100 for double-digit weeks (10) and hit No. 4 on Hot Country Songs in 1977.

(Honorable mention: Dolly Parton wrote “ I Will Always Love You,” which Whitney Houston took to No. 1 on the Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 1992-93. Parton sent two versions of the beloved ballad to the top of Hot Country Songs, in 1974 and 1982.)

ELLA “TEXAS” TWO STEPS AGAIN…SO DOES OLIVIA AND BRUNO

Thanks to “Choosin’ Texas” and “Be Her,” Langley becomes the 20th act to hold Nos. 1 and 2 on the Hot 100 simultaneously. Only four solo women are in the exclusive club, with she and Taylor Swift the only ones to do so as lead artists on both of their respective hits.  Here’s a recap of all the acts that have taken over the Hot 100’s top two, ranked by most occurrences:

• 10 weeks: The Beatles
• 8 weeks: OutKast
• 7 weeks: Drake
• 6 weeks: Justin Bieber, T.I.
• 5 weeks: Ashanti, Iggy Azalea, Bee Gees, Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams
• 4 weeks: The Black Eyed Peas, Diddy, Nelly
• 3 weeks: 50 Cent, Ja Rule, Kendrick Lamar, Usher
• 2 weeks: Akon, DaBaby, Ella Langley

…SO DOES OLIVIA…

Olivia Dean charts her first two Hot 100 top 10s in the top five for the first time: “Man I Need” rebounds 4-3, after reaching No. 2, and “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” ascends a place to a new No. 5 high.

Dean, from London, becomes the first British woman to place her first two top five Hot 100 hits in the bracket simultaneously. Among all Englishwomen at any career point, she’s the first to manage the accomplishment since Adele with “Easy on Me” and “Oh My God” (the most recent of her six top five hits) in December 2021.

The only British acts overall to each chart their first two top five titles, or more, on the Hot 100 in that range simultaneously? Dean, Herman’s Hermits (for one week in 1965) and The Beatles (eight weeks, 1964). The Peter Noone-fronted Herman’s Hermits did so with “Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat” and “Silhouettes” after the Fab Four initiated the stat with the iconic “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You.”

…SO DOES BRUNO…

Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” lifts 5-4 after three weeks atop the Hot 100 between January and March.  Mars also returns to the Hot 100’s top 10 with “Risk It All” (15-8), which debuted at its No. 4 peak in March.

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.

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