Ella Langley has officially made Billboard Hot 100 history, and even she seems unable to process it. The 27-year-old country star’s hit “Choosin’ Texas” has surpassed Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by spending 23 weeks at No. 1, ending Carey’s long-standing record of 22 weeks.
Ella Langley reacted after “Choosin’ Texas” officially surpassed Mariah Carey
Langley reacted to the milestone in an Instagram video posted Sept. 22, admitting she was struggling to find the right words to describe how she felt. As her dog barked in the background, she joked, “I’m genuinely trying to find the words to help explain what’s going on inside my brain today. It feels exactly like that. We don’t know! What! I don’t know!”
She then thanked fans for supporting the song, saying, “Thank you for loving the song, thank you for listening to it. I feel like I just don’t even know what to say at this point. I mean, I’m running out of like hyperboles to describe how I feel.”
For Langley, the achievement goes far beyond breaking a chart record. She explained that the song’s success is already having a major impact on her life, her family and the people who helped create it.
“It’s changing my life,” she said.
She continued, “It’s changing the lives of the writers of this song. It’s changing the lives of my family, and it is truly growing an atmosphere for something I’m going to be able to do the rest of my life. And I just—today doesn’t feel like a real thing. It feels fake and somebody is gonna come in and be like, ‘Ha ha! We’re kidding.’”
However, the record is very real, and Langley planned to celebrate the achievement. “I’m going to go out an celebrate tonight,” she revealed. “I’m really excited to just experience a moment like this in my life. Just thank you so much. ‘Choosin’ T’… Wow, that’s the one, huh?”
The milestone comes as Langley also leads the nominees for the 2026 CMA Awards with nine nominations, as per E! News. Yet, she remains unsure why “Choosin’ Texas,” which she co-wrote with Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor, connected so strongly with listeners.
