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Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' Breaks Billboard Record
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In Short: Ella Langley's single 'Choosin' Texas' has broken Mariah Carey's record for the longest time at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 23 weeks at the top.
Ella Langley's single 'Choosin' Texas' has broken Mariah Carey's record for the longest time at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 23 weeks at the top.
The song, co-written with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, and Joybeth Taylor, has been a cross-genre success, marking Langley's first Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper.
Langley, 26, credits Lambert for her success, saying, 'That's what was so cool about having Miranda to be a part of it.'
'Choosin' Texas' tells the story of a woman watching her relationship fall apart as her partner chooses another woman, a Texan, over her.
The song's creation was inspired by a true story involving Lambert getting pulled over with a kangaroo in her car and Texas plates on the bumper.
Langley and Lambert co-wrote the song during a writing session where they struck gold within 30 minutes.
The song's success has propelled Langley to nine nominations for the 60th annual CMA Awards, tying her with reigning Entertainer of the Year Lainey Wilson.
Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' is nominated for both single of the year and female vocalist of the year, making her the eighth artist in CMA history to have two nominations in the same year in that category.
The song's journey to the top was not without its challenges, with Lambert noting, 'There was hard parts of it. Creating a record is not — I mean, it's a long journey, you know what I mean. And it's a lot of emotions.'
What this adds
Langley's record-breaking week marks a significant milestone in the Billboard Hot 100's history, surpassing Mariah Carey's previous record of 22 weeks.
Langley's success with 'Choosin' Texas' has also made her the leading nominee for the 60th annual CMA Awards, with nine nods.
Background
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What's confirmed
- And if you hear Miranda Lambert all over it, that’s by design—the “Wranglers” singer executive co-produced the album, co-wrote the record-breaking lead single “Choosin’ Texas”, and makes a cameo on the breezy empowerment anthem “Butterfly Season”.
- Getting her start with 2005’s Kerosene, Miranda Lambert has been around the block a few times in Nashville.
- “That’s what was so cool about having Miranda to be a part of it,” Langley, 26, said during a recent appearance on This Past Weekend with Theo Von.
- Earlier this month, Ella Langley followed up her stellar debut with an equally stellar sophomore effort, Dandelion.
- In addition to the musical contributions, Lambert, 42, has also been sharing her two decades of wisdom and industry knowledge with the younger artist.
- Now, she’s apparently showing Ella Langley the ropes, too.
- With this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards right around the corner, Lambert—the most decorated artist in the awards show’s history—garnered the night’s second-most nominations (eight, behind Megan Moroney).
- And Langley isn’t far behind, tied with reigning Entertainer of the Year Lainey Wilson at seven nods.
- It’s clearly their combined magic that has propelled “Choosin’ Texas” to such a historic run.
- Langley co-wrote the song with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, and Joybeth Taylor.
- "We were talking about her having a kangaroo at one point, and then she said she had Texas plates on when she got pulled over with the kangaroo in her car," Ella tells Cody Alan on SiriusXM's The Highway.
- And I was going to the restroom in between writes and I was singing, 'She's from Texas I can tell by the way she's two-stepping 'round the room' and right when I said that, immediately Miranda was like, 'Like the girl he went with.'" It was an aha. moment for them both. "And we just kind of locked eyes," Ella says, sharing that she, Miranda, and the other songwriters were gathered on a porch together when they struck gold. Within 30 minutes, they had all of the lyrics. "Well, I guess he forgot about the Smoky Mountain rain / Them old Hank tunes, the / Memphis blues we used to sing / He always loved Amarillo by Morning / I shoulda taken that as a warning.
What's still developing
- The milestone puts Langley ahead of Mariah Carey's “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which previously held the record with 22 weeks at the top.
- Langley's record-breaking week officially puts “Choosin’ Texas” alone at the top of the Billboard Hot 100's all-time list.
- The accomplishment is particularly notable because “Choosin’ Texas” isn't simply dominating the country charts.
- It's an all-genre record, meaning Langley has officially spent more weeks atop the U.S.
- “Choosin’ Texas” has been an absolute powerhouse across Billboard's charts.
- Vying for the night’s highest honor, entertainer of the year, are Combs, Johnson, Langley, Stapleton and Wilson.
- “We wrote a bunch of songs together, but the second one really stuck with me. Miranda, being from Texas, started telling us one of her wild stories about drinkin’ and doing something ridiculous, and I said, ‘Well, she’s from Texas, I can tell.’ As soon as I said that, we all just looked at each other like —yep, that’s it. That’s the next song,” Langley previously recalled.
- Early Thursday morning, the buzzed-about country star took to Instagram Stories with an urgent plea, revealing that her latest single, “ Choosin’ Texas,” is locked in a tight race for the No.
- The milestone would mark another major accolade for “Choosin’ Texas,” which surged to No.
- RELATED: Ella Langley Just Broke Taylor Swift’s Billboard Record—And Has Held It 5 Times Longer “Choosin’ Texas” has made several separate trips to No.
- Langley passed them weeks ago and has kept adding to the total.
- The country superstar revealed that she and the "Choosin' Texas" singer butted heads while working together — and Lambert said the disagreements were actually a sign they were on the right track.