Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has now joined Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” and Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” as a bona fide American classic. According to data released on Monday, it now ties those powerhouse songs as the only singles from solo women to spend 14 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. The only song to reign longer is Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” with 22 weeks — a run that is pretty impossible to beat, being how Christmas (and an associated chart bump) comes around every year. Right now, however, ‘Choosin’ Texas” isn’t showing any signs of slowing its momentum.
Neither is Langley. On July 16th, she played the biggest show of her Dandelion Tour yet: a sold-out date in Hamilton, Ontario, where she was joined by Madeline Edwards and Avery Anna as opening acts. She also donned a Ravens jersey two nights later after a wardrobe malfunction while opening for Morgan Wallen in Baltimore (surely endearing her to the Flock for life). The Alabama-born singer also holds three of the Top 10 spots on the Hot 100 currently, with “Be Her” at Number Three and her Wallen duet, “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” at Number Seven.
Also joining Langley on the Top 10 is Stella Lefty’s “Boston” at Number Six, and Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” at Number Two. Langley’s newest single from her second album, Dandelion, “Loving Life Again,” is also seeing significant play on country radio.
Though she’s now in the same sentence as Houston and Carey, Langley also has a kinship with Dolly Parton: The country legend wrote “I Will Always Love You.” Langley’s tour heads to Pikeville, Kentucky, with Kaitlin Butts and Laci Kaye Booth, on Thursday.
From Rolling Stone US
