Ella Langley has set a new all-time Billboard Hot 100 record after “Choosin’ Texas” reached 23 total weeks at No. 1. The song moves past Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which had held the benchmark at 22 weeks. Billboard announced the achievement on September 22 for the chart dated September 26, 2026, giving Langley a historic milestone in her breakout run.

Ella Langley has moved into territory no artist had reached before on the Billboard Hot 100. “Choosin’ Texas” has now spent 23 total weeks at No. 1, breaking the all-time record previously held by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

The new mark was announced on September 22 and applies to the Hot 100 dated September 26, 2026. One week earlier, Langley and Carey had been tied at 22 weeks each. With another week added to its total, “Choosin’ Texas” now stands alone at the top of a record book that stretches back to the launch of the Hot 100 in August 1958.

There is an important distinction behind that number. The 23 weeks were not consecutive. “Choosin’ Texas” has left the top spot and returned during its chart run, meaning the record reflects the total number of weeks spent at No. 1 rather than one uninterrupted stretch.

That makes the achievement different from the way some historic No. 1 runs are remembered, but not any less significant. The Hot 100 counts every week a song leads the chart, regardless of whether those weeks come back-to-back or are separated by other No. 1 singles.

“Choosin’ Texas” first entered the Hot 100 on the chart dated November 1, 2025, becoming Langley’s fifth appearance on the ranking. Its rise accelerated in early 2026, entering the top 10 in January before reaching No. 1 for the first time in February.

From there, the song became one of the year’s defining chart stories.

It passed a series of milestones as the months went on. Twenty weeks placed it beyond every non-holiday song that had previously reached that territory. At 21 weeks, it moved within touching distance of the overall record. At 22, it tied Carey. The 23rd week finally pushed it beyond every other song in Hot 100 history.

Carey’s record came through a very different path. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” was originally released in 1994 but did not reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 until 2019. Since then, it has returned to the top during multiple holiday seasons, gradually adding more weeks to its total.

“Choosin’ Texas,” by contrast, has built its 23 weeks during the same release cycle. That gives Langley’s achievement a different shape, even though both songs are measured by the same chart rule: total weeks at No. 1.

Below them, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, sit at 19 weeks. Songs including Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night,” Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito” featuring Justin Bieber, and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” reached 16.

The latest Hot 100 result is not being driven by a single platform. Billboard’s flagship singles chart combines U.S. streaming activity, radio airplay and sales, creating a weekly ranking based on several different forms of consumption.

During the tracking period of September 11 through September 17, “Choosin’ Texas” recorded 21.8 million official U.S. streams. That figure was down 9% from the previous week, but the song still remained at No. 1 on Streaming Songs for a 23rd week.

Its radio performance was also strong. The track generated 58.3 million estimated audience impressions during the same period, up 2%, and climbed from No. 6 to No. 2 on Radio Songs.

That number does not represent 58.3 million individual listeners. Radio audience impressions are calculated using station airplay and estimated audience size, which makes them a measure of potential exposure rather than a count of unique people who heard the track.

Sales provided another piece of the chart picture. “Choosin’ Texas” sold 6,000 copies in the United States during the tracking week, an increase of 4%, and remained at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales for an 18th week.

That separate chart run brought another notable statistic. Eighteen weeks at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales matches the record set by BTS with “Dynamite” and “Butter.” It is a different achievement from the Hot 100 milestone and should be treated separately, but it adds another indication of how broadly the song has performed across formats.

The crossover is also visible on radio. “Choosin’ Texas” reached No. 4 on Adult Pop Airplay, No. 7 on Pop Airplay and No. 9 on Adult Contemporary, all new highs for the track at that point.

That matters because the song began from a country base. Its continued presence across pop and adult formats shows how far it has traveled beyond its original genre lane.

On Hot Country Songs, “Choosin’ Texas” has now spent 41 weeks at No. 1. It had also led Country Airplay for three weeks earlier in the year, during February and March. Those are separate Billboard rankings, but together they show the scale of the song’s reach across the country market and beyond it.

Langley wrote “Choosin’ Texas” with Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor. In an earlier Billboard interview, she admitted that she could not fully explain why listeners had connected with the song so strongly.

She pointed instead to the ingredients they had tried to get right: a rhythm that moved easily, strong choruses and guitar parts that gave the track its own character. There was no attempt to present a formula for chart success, only a description of how the song had been built.

The record also arrives at an interesting moment in the longer history of the Hot 100. Songs now have the ability to remain commercially active for longer periods through streaming, playlist exposure and cross-format radio support, while catalog tracks can return to the chart under the right conditions.

That wider environment is part of why comparisons across decades need context. A 23-week No. 1 run in 2026 does not emerge from exactly the same market that existed in the 1960s, 1990s or even early 2010s. Billboard’s methodology has evolved with the way people consume music.

The record itself, however, is straightforward. Under the current historical count of Hot 100 No. 1 weeks, no song has accumulated more than “Choosin’ Texas.”

It may not stay that way forever.

Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” remains an annual chart force and could add more weeks at No. 1 during a future holiday season. “Choosin’ Texas” could also extend its own total if it remains on top in the next chart cycle.

For now, the difference is one week, and that single week is enough to rewrite the ranking.

The complete Billboard charts dated September 26 were scheduled to be updated on September 23, one day later than usual. That will provide the wider context around the week in which Langley established the new record, including how the rest of the Hot 100 shifted around her.

The immediate question is whether “Choosin’ Texas” can make it 24.

After entering the chart in late 2025, reaching No. 1 in February and spending much of 2026 moving in and out of the top position, Langley has already pushed the ceiling higher than any song before it. The next chart update will determine whether this historic run stops at 23 weeks or continues to stretch the record even further.