USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' breaks all-time Hot 100 record
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” adds a record-extending 24th week at No. 1 on the Billbpard Hot 100. A week earlier, the song solely claimed the mark. “Choosin’ Texas” initially ruled the Hot

100 in February, on its way to setting multiple chart records. Among its newest honors, it breaks the record for the most weeks, 19, logged at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart. The song having overseen promotion to country radio, totaled 22.3 million official streams (up 2% week over week), 57.9 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 1%) and 9,000 sold (up 55%) in the United States Sept. 18-24. The track holds for a 24th week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs; dips to No. 3 from its No. 2 high on Radio Songs; and continues for a 19th week atop Digital Song Sales — where it overtakes BTS’ “Dynamite,” from 2021, and “Butter,” from 2020, for the longest reign in the chart’s history (which dates to the mid-2000s). Morgan Wallen’s “Last Thing You Need” debuts at No. 9 on the Hot 100. Released Sept. 17, it accumulated 14.4 million streams, 1.2 million in airplay audience and 5,000 sold in its first full tracking week. Wallen adds his 21st career Hot 100 top 10.

Dating to his first, “7 Summers,” in 2020, he boasts the third-most top 10s this decade, after Drake (55) and Taylor Swift (45). Stella Lefty’s “Boston” keeps at its No. 2 Hot 100 peak and Morgan Wallen’s “Been by Now” is steady at No. 3, after it debuted at its No. 2 best. Country songs (defined as releases that have hit Hot Country Songs) have now held the top three, top four or top five 17 times over the chart’s history, with 13 having occurred since July. Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after it led in its debut week in June. Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” repeats at its No. 5 Hot 100 high. Karol G’s “BbY Wow,” with Judeline and rusowsky, rises 7-6, two weeks after it reached the Hot 100’s top 10. Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” lifts a spot (8-7) on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 5, as does her “Man I Need” (9-8), after it reached at No. 2. Wallen, Dean and Langley each have two songs in the Hot 100’s top 10, as Langley bookends the bracket with “Be Her,” which holds at No. 10 after peaking at No. 2. Miley earns her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in more than a decade as Bass Persuades debuts atop the list dated Oct. 3. It launches with 61,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Sept. 24, according to Luminate. In total, it’s her sixth leader and 16th top 10-charted set. Miley (aka Miley Cyrus) last stopped the tally with Bangerz in 2013. Of Bass Persuades’ 61,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 47,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 14,000 (equaling 14.22 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across 16 vinyl variants (one with a bonus track), nine CD variants (one with a bonus track), six download variants (most with bonus tracks) and a cassette. Miley last topped the Billboard 200 in October 2013 with Bangerz. Her six No. 1s and 16 top 10s encompass her work billed as Miley and Miley Cyrus, alongside her soundtrack albums as Disney character Hannah Montana. Ella Langley’s chart-topping Dandelion holds at No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200 with nearly 61,000 equivalent album units (up 1%). Riley Green gets his first top 10 on the Billboard 200 as That’s Just Me debuts at No. 3. It launches with 60,000 equivalent album units earned (his best week by units). Of that sum, album sales comprise 29,000 (his best sales week; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 30.89 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 10 on Top Streaming Albums), and TEA units comprise 1,000. The album’s first-week sales were boosted by its availability across 13 vinyl and CD variants (some with bonus tracks), two download editions (one with a bonus track) and a cassette. A trio of former No. 1s follow Green on the latest Billboard 200. Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is steady at No. 4 (58,000 equivalent album units, up 1%), Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love falls 3-5 (55,000, down 8%) and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide dips 5-6 (46,000, up less than 1%). Beabadoobee nabs her first top 10-charted project as Pylon arrives at No. 7 with 35,000 equivalent album units (her best week by units). Rounding out the rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200: Jhené Aiko’s Westside Whimsy falls 1-8 in its second week with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (down 53%), Drake’s former leader ICEMAN drops 6-9 (nearly 35,000 units, down 2%) and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is steady at No. 10 (34,000, up 3%).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Sienna Spiro holds tight at number one
Monday, September 28, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Women have a vice-like grip on the chart, with Sienna Spiro continuing at the summit, in a top six comprising entirely of tracks by female solo artists for only the third time in chart history. Spiro’s Great Expectation racks up a third consecutive week at No.1, albeit with consumption off 1.16% week-on-week

at 26,900 units (337 digital downloads and 26,563 sales-equivalent streams). That is the lowest level for a No.1 single since Viva La Vida topped the list for Coldplay on consumption of 23,212 copies in June 2008, some 953 weeks ago. Its nearest challenger is still former incumbent Choosin’ Texas, No.2 for the third time (24,534 sales) for Ella Langley, while Stella Lefty’s debut hit, Boston, No.4 for the last four weeks, climbs to a new peak at No.3 (24,228 sales). The highest of three new entries to the Top 10, Nicole Kidman is in a hurry for Slovakian singer Adéla, surging 15-4 (19,188 sales) a fortnight after debuting at No.50. It is her first Top 10 single, and overshadows her debut hit, Ain’t In LA, which returns to its peak (13-12, 16,595 sales). With Dua Lipa’s viral revival Training Season holding at No.5 (19,148 sales) and Olivia Rodrigo’s The Cure repeating at No.6 (18,672 sales), our solo sororal sextet is complete. The first time the top six comprised only

of tracks by female solo artists was on August 18, 2023, when Billie Eilish led the way with Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Peggy Gou and two songs from Olivia Rodrigo completing the sextet. A week later, we had the only instance before this week of different female solo artists in each of the top six positions, with Lipa on top followed by Eilish, Rodrigo, Doja Cat, Swift and Gou. It is very unlikely this week’s top six will fill the top six positions a week hence – there are female reinforcements in the form of Patient Zero, Pink Clouding, Cleveland and Babylon – the new additions to Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl – but also male contenders in the form of Jamie Miller, whose first hit Babydoll has catapulted 67-46-24-8, increasing consumption 72.22% week-on-week to 18,072 units as it makes its Top 10 debut, and which will undoubtedly make further gains next week; and Sombr, whose My Body Isn’t Ready surges 16-10 (16,755 sales) to become his fifth Top 10 hit. Completing the Top 10: Rein Me In (7-7, 18,492 sales) by Sam Fender & Olivia Dean and Stop The Wedding! (9-9, 17,344 sales) by Ashe. Handicapped by ACR on the main chart, Rein Me In is the most-consumed track for the 14th week in a row, and 23rd week in total, with unadjusted consumption of 36,763 units. Overall singles consumption is up 0.64% week-on-week to 29,635,664 units, 2.89% below same week 2025 sales of 30,517,213 units. Paid-for sales are up 0.70% week-on-week at 247,533, 16.79% below same week 2025 sales of 297,472. Leadership of the album chart changes hands for the 13th week in a row, and Beabadoobee lands the 10th new No.1 album of the year by a female solo artist, as her fourth release, Pylon, makes an electrifying debut atop the chart, on consumption of 21,065 units (9,241 CDs, 6,801 vinyl albums, 2,109 cassettes, 355 digital downloads and 2,559 sales-equivalent streams). It is the second No.1 in a row for the 26-year-old singer/songwriter – real name Beatrice Laus – who also topped with 2024 set, This Is How Tomorrow Moves, on lower first week consumption of 17,202 units. She previously reached No.8 with 2020 debut, Fake It Flowers, and No.4 with 2022 follow-up, Beatopia. This Is How Tomorrow Moves became her biggest-selling album thus far only last week, and now raises its cumulative consumption to 94,207 units, just ahead of Beatopia (93,964 units), with Fake It Flowers on 41,287 units. A Londoner from the age of three, Beabadoobee was born in Iloilo in the Philippines, and is the only Filipino-born artist to top the album chart. She wrote all 14 songs on Pylon, 11 of them with co-writers – a contrast to That’s How Tomorrow Moves, where she alone wrote all 14 tracks. She is one of only two female soloists to have an entirely self-written No.1 album in the 2020s – Taylor Swift was the first, with her Taylor’s Version of Speak Now in 2023. His massive legacy as drummer for Queen notwithstanding, Roger Taylor has nevertheless assembled an impressive body of solo work, and racks up his second solo Top 10 album with his seventh solo set, Violence Insane In A Beautiful World (No.6, 7,645 sales). The follow-up to his acclaimed 2021 set, Outsider, which reached No.3, it yet again proves that the sprightly 77-year-old is so much more than a drummer – he also sings, plays multiple guitars and keyboards on the album, and wrote all of the songs himself, aside from a cover of John Lennon’s Jealous Guy. The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (2-2, 9,983 sales) by Michael Jackson, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (3-3, 9,682 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Visitor (4-4, 8,230 sales) by Sienna Spiro, The Art Of Loving (7-5, 7,766 sales) by Olivia Dean, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-7, 7,221 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Time Flies: 1994-2009 (5-8, 7,006 sales) by Oasis, The Highlights (10-9, 6,947 sales) by The Weeknd and The Great Divide (13-10, 6,026 sales) by Noah Kahan. No.1 last week, Here Because Of Hope slumps to No.82 (2,140 sales) for Ezra Collective, while last week’s No.6, Anatomy Of A Brief Romance by Bloc Party, and last week’s No.8, Bloodletting by Røry, exit the Top 200 on consumption of 426 units and 297 units, respectively. Overall album sales are up 3.17% week-on-week to 2,390,984 units, 5.78% below same week 2025 sales of 2,537,548. Physical product accounts for 292,178 sales, 12.22% of the total.