USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' ties all-time Hot 100 record
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” claims a 22nd week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, tying the longest run ever achieved atop the chart. The smash matches the command of Mariah Carey's

perennial “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Two weeks earlier, “Choosin’ Texas” rewrote the record for the most weeks totaled atop the Hot 100 among non-holiday songs, as its 20th week at No. 1 surpassed the reigns of both Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus. “Choosin’ Texas” debuted on the Hot 100 dated Nov. 1, 2025; became Langley’s first top 10 in January; and initially led in February, on its way to setting multiple chart records. It crowned the Country Airplay chart for three weeks in February-March and has crossed to pop radio formats, currently ranking in the top 10 on Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Adult Contemporary. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has topped the Hot 100 each Yuletide season since the classic 1994 carol initially led in 2019, and could add to its total in the holidays ahead. “Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having promoted it to country

radio, totaled 24 million official streams, 56.9 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 2% week over week in each metric) and 6,000 sold (down 16%) in the United States Sept. 4-10. The track holds for a 22nd week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs; dips 5-6, after reaching No. 4, on Radio Songs; and rises 4-1 for a 17th week atop Digital Song Sales. Stella Lefty’s “Boston” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high; Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” keeps at No. 3, after it spent its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1 in June; and Morgan Wallen’s “Been by Now” rebounds 5-4, after it debuted at its No. 2 best. Meanwhile, “I Knew It, I Knew You” leads Radio Songs for a fourth week (64.6 million, down 13%). Karol G’s “BbY WOW,” with Judeline and rusowsky, surges 16-10 on the Hot 100, led by 13.4 million streams (up 14%) and 3.8 million in radio reach (up 78%). Karol G collects her second Hot 100 top 10, after “TQG,” with fellow Colombian star Shakira, debuted at its No. 7 peak in March 2023. Judeline and rusowsky reach the region in their first visits to the chart. Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” slips 4-5 on the Hot 100, after it led in its debut week in June. Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” holds at No. 6 after reaching No. 5 on the Hot 100. Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” is steady at No. 7 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 5, while her “Man I Need” repeats at No. 8, after reaching at No. 2. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Langley’s “Be Her” rises 10-9, after peaking at No. 2. Ella Langley's Dandelion returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a third nonconsecutive week on top, as the album rises two slots on the Sept. 19-dated chart. The set earned 67,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Sept. 10, according to Luminate, down less than 1% compared to the previous week. Dandelion debuted at No. 1 on the April 25, 2026-dated chart, spent its first two weeks atop the list and has never left the top five. Of Dandelion’s 67,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 57,000 (down 4%, equaling 60.21 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it holds at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 9,000 (up 43%, it climbs 21-11 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 16%). Two former No. 1s follow Langley. Olivia Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love lifts 4-2 (64,000 equivalent album units, down 4%) and Morgan Wallen's I'm The Problem rises 5-3 (60,000, down less than 1%). Adéla’s PRIMA premieres at No. 4 with 56,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 31,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 25,000 (equaling 25.94 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 14 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The 22-year-old Slovakian singer-songwriter gained attention in 2023 when she participated in Dream Academy, the reality competition show that eventually launched Katseye. While she was one of the first contestants eliminated from the program, she would drop her debut single “Homewrecked” in 2024, and then “Superscar” soon after. In 2025, she signed to Capitol Records and launched her first EP, The Provocateur. She made her Billboard Hot 100 debut in August with the PRIMA track “Ain’t in LA,” which has scaled to No. 57 as of the Sept. 19-dated chart. Noah Kahan’s chart-topping The Great Divide is up a notch to No. 5 on the latest Billboard 200 (47,000 equivalent album units, down 12%). Ariana Grande’s former leader petal pushes 15-6 with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (up 36%) following the release of a deluxe digital download edition of the set with bonus live tracks. Rod Wave’s Don’t Look Down falls to No. 7 after debuting atop the chart a week ago. In its second week, the set earned 42,000 equivalent album units (down 57%). Beyoncé’s B’Day returns to the Billboard 200 for the first time since 2008, as the set re-enters the chart at No. 8 following its 20th anniversary deluxe reissue. The album was originally released in 2006, debuted at No. 1 and marked the superstar’s second leader. In the latest tracking week, B’Day earned 38,000 equivalent album units (up 385%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 22,000 (equaling 22.49 million in on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 19 on the nearly three-year-old Top Streaming Albums chart), album sales comprise 16,000 (it reenters at No. 4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Drake’s chart-topping ICEMAN falls a rung to No. 9 on the Billboard 200 (36,000 equivalent album units, down 6%) and Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving retreats a spot to No. 10 (34,000, down 8%).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Sienna Spiro holds tight at number one
Monday, September 21, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Five of six solo No.1s this year by female soloists spent just one week at the summit but Sienna Spiro’s Great Expectation does something only Taylor Swift’s I Knew It, I Knew You has managed thus far in 2026 by spending a second week on top. It does so comfortably, despite its consumption falling 3.31%

week-on-week to 27,216 units (711 digital downloads and 26,505 sales-equivalent streams) as former incumbent, Choosin’ Texas by Ella Langley suffers a greater 9.45% diminution to 24,043 units, even as it holds at No.2. Spiro’s only previous Top 10 hit, Die On This Hill peaked at No.9 last November but has attracted a lot of new admirers in the wake of Great Expectation’s success, and improves its chart position for the sixth week in a row, as it climbs 11-10 (15,684 sales), returning to the Top 10 after an absence of 33 weeks. Six years after her introductory hit, Moral Of The Story, peaked at No.31, Californian singer/songwriter Ashe’s second, Stop The Wedding!, climbs for the fifth straight week, and is the only new entry to this week’s Top 10, moving 16-9 (16,344 sales). No.4 on debut in 2024, Dua Lipa’s Training Season achieves its highest chart placing since. Its ongoing viral revival sees the track improve 7-5 (19,243 sales), while becoming the singer's

16th song to achieve consumption in excess of a million units, with a to-date tally of 1,008,526. The rest of the Top 10: Movin’ To The Sun (3-3, 23,865 sales) by Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté, Boston (4-4, 23,451 sales) by Stella Lefty, The Cure (6-6, 19,051 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Rein Me In (5-7, 18,946 sales) by Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, and Man I Need (8-8, 17,035 sales) by Olivia Dean. Handicapped on the main chart by ACR, Rein Me In is, in reality, the most-consumed track for the 13th week in a row, and 22nd week in total, with unadjusted consumption of 37,641 units, with Man I Need (33,883 units) following in its wake. Overall singles consumption is up 0.81% week-on-week to 29,447,675 units, 1.31% below same week 2025 sales of 29,839,208 units. It is the sixth week in a row they have been below same week 2025 levels. Paid-for sales are down 1.76% week-on-week at 245,834, 4.03% below same week 2025 sales of 256,170. The culmination of more than a decade of gigging, including selling out Wembley Arena; a solid back catalogue; MOBO, Mercury Prize and BRIT Awards; and its own rave reviews all coalesce to catapult Here Because Of Hope, the fourth full-length album by Ezra Collective, to a No.1 debut. The 12th album to open at the summit in as many weeks, it racked up first week consumption of 13,181 units (6,457 CDs, 5,004 vinyl albums, 106 cassettes, 723 digital downloads and 891 sales-equivalent streams) to become their first No.1 album. Ezra Collective’s 2019 debut You Can’t Steal My Joy, peaked at No.70, 2022 follow-up Where I’m Meant To Be reached No.24 and last album, Dance, No One’s Watching, gave them their highest chart placing and highest previous first week sale, opening and peaking at No.7 on consumption of 9,966 units in 2024. The latter album is marginally their biggest seller, with to-date consumption of 42,090 units, followed by Where I’m Meant To Be (41,601 units) and You Can’t Steal My Joy (19,070 units). A London-based quintet comprising 31-year-old drummer and bandleader Olufemi (Femi) Koleoso, 30-year-old bassist Toyosi (TJ) Koleoso (his brother), 26-year-old trumpeter Ifeoluwa (Ife) Ogunjobi, 33-year-old keyboards player Joe Armon Jones and 33-year-old saxophonist James Mollison, Ezra Collective’s eclectic blend of music is jazz-based, and largely instrumental, with Here Because Of Hope featuring guest vocals from rapper Pa Salieu, Cameroonian singer Libianca and X Factor alumnus Leona Lewis. The album is the first No.1 categorised as jazz by OCC since Dutch singer Caro Emerald topped with The Shocking Miss Emerald in 2013 (none of Michael Bublé’s No.1s since then met the criteria for jazz) – but has the lowest consumption for a No.1 album since Ed Sheeran’s +-=÷× Tour Collection topped for the second and last time on consumption of 9,908 units, 67 weeks ago. Indie rock veterans’ Bloc Party’s first album in more than four years, Anatomy Of A Brief Romance (No.6, 7,950 sales) is their eighth to chart, and sixth to make the Top 10. After releasing a number of uncharted singles and EPs, some under her real name of Roxanne Emery, alt-pop singer/songwriter and producer Røry reached No.10 last year with her debut album, Restøration. The 41-year-old from Southampton tops that with follow-up Bloodletting (No.8, 7,310 sales). The release of their new documentary Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger last week, and the announcement this week of their Live ’27 tour dates combine to give a major boost to Oasis’ back catalogue for the second week in a row, with Time Flies: 1994-2009 (15-5, 8,045 sales), (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (24-12, 6,458 sales) and Definitely Maybe (49-17, 4,516 sales) increasing consumption 51.55%, 50.60% and 58.13%, respectively. The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (4-2, 10,358 sales) by Michael Jackson, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (3-3, 10,276 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Visitor (6-4, 8,162 sales) by Sienna Spiro, The Art Of Loving (7-7, 7,637 sales) by Olivia Dean, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-9, 7,263 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and The Highlights (9-10, 6,991 sales) by The Weeknd. Overall album sales are down 1.58% week-on-week to 2,317,536 units, their lowest level for 88 weeks, and 6.91% below same week 2025 sales of 2,489,509. Physical product accounts for 245,334 sales, 10.59% of the total.