Key points
- On the Billboard Hot 100 dated Nov. 14, 2026, Choosin’ Texas spent its 27th total week at No. 1, a record it already owned.
- The weeks are not consecutive: the song first reached No. 1 in February 2026 and has lost the top spot and won it back several times.
- Ella Langley passed the 22 weeks of Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You in September, ending a run Carey had built over several holiday seasons.
- Michael Jackson’s Thriller reached a new No. 2 peak around Halloween.
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Ella Langley’s Choosin’ Texas has now spent 27 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, Billboard’s main all-genre singles chart in the US. The new total comes from the chart dated Nov. 14, 2026, which measured US activity from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5.
One week earlier, the chart dated Nov. 7 had recorded week 26. That is roughly half a year at the top, built in several separate runs rather than one unbroken streak, and no other song has done it in the chart’s history.
27 weeks at No. 1, counted across several runs
The record counts every week a song has spent at No. 1, whether or not those weeks come in a row. That is the key point behind the headline number.
Choosin’ Texas came out on Oct. 17 and reached No. 1 for the first time in February 2026. It has been knocked off the top more than once since then. It was absent from the top through October, when Taylor Swift’s Patient Zero held No. 1 for three weeks.
The song held on through the Halloween tracking week too. According to Whiskey Riff, it drew 18.8 million official US streams, 53 million in radio airplay audience and 4,000 units sold.
How Choosin’ Texas compares with the Hot 100’s longest-running hits
Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You held the record with 22 weeks, and it got there differently: the holiday classic adds a few weeks at No. 1 each December. Choosin’ Texas reached 23 weeks in September, a record reported on Sept. 22, 2026, and has added four more weeks since.
Here are the leaders in total weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100:
| Song | Artist | Weeks at No. 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Choosin’ Texas | Ella Langley | 27 |
| All I Want for Christmas Is You | Mariah Carey | 22 |
| A Bar Song (Tipsy) | Shaboozey | 19 |
| Old Town Road | Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus | 19 |
| Last Night | Morgan Wallen | 16 |
| Despacito | Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber | 16 |
| One Sweet Day | Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men | 16 |
The list says something about streaming-era country music. Three of the seven entries are country or country-crossover songs: Choosin’ Texas, A Bar Song (Tipsy) and Last Night. Old Town Road also borrowed heavily from the genre.
For Langley, the record is a country song outlasting a Christmas staple. Carey’s song earned its weeks one holiday season at a time. Langley’s song earned all 27 in a single calendar year.
Thriller reaches a new No. 2 peak on the Nov. 14 Hot 100
Michael Jackson’s Thriller reached a new No. 2 peak on the Nov. 14 chart, a jump that coincided with the Halloween tracking week.
Langley’s other chart runs, from country to the Billboard 200
Choosin’ Texas also leads Hot Country Songs for a 48th week. The record on that chart belongs to Florida Georgia Line and Bebe Rexha’s Meant to Be, at 50 weeks, so two more weeks would tie it.
Langley’s second album, Dandelion, then opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 169,000 equivalent units in its first week.
What could end the run: the holiday songs
The next real threat follows the calendar. Christmas music returns to the chart from late November, and in recent Decembers Carey’s song has climbed back to No. 1 every season, which is how it collected its 22 weeks.
Thriller’s Halloween boost should fade first. The next Hot 100, dated Nov. 21, will show whether Choosin’ Texas can reach 28 weeks before the holiday songs take over.