Ella Langley Just Achieved A Massive First-Ever Milestone On The Billboard Hot 100

Another major career accomplishment for Ms. Langley.

Upon the release and eventual success of “you look like you love me,” it seemed nearly impossible for Ella Langley to top it. Of course, this isn’t a knock on the Alabama native, it simply felt like the perfect storm of quality, virality and drama following the countless rumors surrounding her and Riley Green at the time of its release.

As we know, the track was nothing short of a smash, procuring a staggering seven wins at both the CMA and ACM Awards in both 2024 and 2025, along with an additional 287 million streams on Spotify alone and an even more impressive 819,500 unique videos using the sound on TikTok.

Just when you thought that “you look like you love me” would remain as Langley’s signature hit over the next few years, “Choosin’ Texas” was released. And it’s been nothing short of a juggernaut for the Alabama native.

The track, which was now famously co-written with Miranda Lambert (along with Joybeth Taylor and Luke Dick), was released back on October 7th, and quickly became one of the most buzzy songs of the year for a couple of different reasons.

For starters, the “Choosin’ Texas” once again fanned the flames of the seemingly never-ending online drama surrounding Langley and Green’s relationship, with a countless number of fans online speculating whether the song was written about Green himself. This, of course, was mainly due to the single’s artwork depicting a couple, a man wearing a cowboy hat and a blonde woman, in a red convertible, which made fans once again stir up rumors surrounding the alleged “love triangle” between Langley, Green and Megan Moroney.

Unsurprisingly, Langley would all but deny these rumors, telling fans at her Athens, Georgia, concert back in October that she’ll never reveal who the song is about.

“This girl’s up here, she’s trying to get me to spill the tea on who it’s about. Baby, I ain’t ever gonna do that. I ain’t never gonna do that. But I am gonna play the song, it’s called ‘Choosin’ Texas.’”

Since its release, the song has been nothing short of a smash for Langley. Debuting at #37 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, it also launched all the way to #7 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, both of which were career-highs for the “hungover singer.”

In the weeks following, it caught even more fire. On December 2nd, it became Langley’s first career #1 hit on the aforementioned Hot Country Songs chart and also became the fastest solo female song to reach the top 10 at US Country Radio this decade, taking just eight weeks to crack the Top 10.

In case that wasn’t enough, today, “Choosin’ Texas” reached #5 on the all-genre Hot 100, skyrocketing all the way up from #48 last week. With this entry, “Choosin’ Texas” has become Langley’s first-career Top 5 entry on the chart as well as her first Top 10 entry.

As it stands today, “Choosin’ Texas” has now been named the #1 Country Song of 2025 by both Spotify and Billboard, secured a #1 hit on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, notched a Top 5 entry on the Hot 100 and has procured over 72 million streams on Spotify alone. Keep in mind, the song has only been out for less than three months as of writing. If these stats don’t point to who’s country music’s new “it” girl, I don’t know what does.