USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' tallies 13th week at No. 1
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Listeners continue to be choosin’ “Choosin’ Texas,” as Ella Langley’s smash holds for a 13th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song’s newest historic levels: The hit, which first

led the Hot 100 in February, is one of just five, and the only one by an act known for primarily recording country music, to have dominated for 13 weeks or more among titles by women with no male-billed acts. Meanwhile, Langley boasts three songs in the Hot 100’s top four spots, with “Choosin’ Texas” joined by “Be Her,” steady at its No. 3 high, and “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” with Morgan Wallen, new to the top five with a 6-4 jump. How rare is that kind of a triple-up? “Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having overseen promotion of the song to country radio, totaled 25.1 million official streams (down 3% week over week), 50.8 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 7,000 sold (down 14%) in the United States July 3-9. The single is stationary atop the Streaming Songs chart, leading for a 14th week; at No. 6, after reaching No. 4, on Radio Songs; and at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, where it’s on top for a 12th

week. On Streaming Songs, it ties for the fifth-longest rule in the chart’s history. On Digital Song Sales, it becomes of only 10 titles to have led for at least a dozen weeks. Langley has two more songs in the top four of the Hot 100: “Be Her” keeps at No. 3 after reaching No. 2 and “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” with Morgan Wallen, pushes 6-4 for its first week in the top five (up 5% to 29.2 million in airplay audience). Also in the Hot 100’s top five for the first time, Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” surges 8-5 (gaining 3% to 59.6 million in radio reach). Already each act’s first top 10 on the chart. Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” ranks at No. 2 on the Hot 100 for a third consecutive week, after it spent its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1 in June. Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” lifts 7-6 after it led the Hot 100 in its debut week in May. Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in January and led for three weeks through March, pushes 10-7. It tops Radio Songs for a 21st week (63.3 million, down 2%). Drake’s “Janice STFU” drops 4-8 after logging its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 beginning in late May. Olivia Dean rounds out the Hot 100’s top 10 with two songs: “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” returns to the tier, up 12-9, after reaching No. 5, and “Man I Need” falls 5-10 after hitting No. 2. Madonna earns her 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as her new studio album, Confessions II, debuts atop the list dated July 18. With the arrival, the Queen of Pop gets her first No. 1 album of the 2020s and becomes the first act with a No. 1 album in the 2020s to have also topped the chart in three other decades. Further, Madonna becomes only the fourth act to have achieved at least 10 No. 1s each on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. On the latter, she has 12 leaders. Confessions II launches with 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 9, according to Luminate. That marks the largest week for a dance album this year. It also scores Madonna her best week, by units, since the Billboard 200 transitioned to an equivalent album units-ranked list in December 2014. Confessions II additionally yields Madonna’s biggest streaming week ever for an album, and her largest pure album sales week in more than a decade. The new album is the sequel to 2005’s chart-topping Confessions on a Dance Floor, and reunites Madonna with her main collaborator from that project, DJ/writer/producer Stuart Price. Confessions II was announced on April 15, released on July 3 and marks Madonna’s first new studio album since 2019’s No. 1 Madame X. The new set was preceded by its Hot 100 hit “Bring Your Love,” with Sabrina Carpenter. Of Confessions II’s 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, album sales comprise 114,000 (Madonna’s best sales week since 2015 — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 19,000 (equaling 20.1 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, Madonna’s largest streaming week ever for an album; it debuts at No. 32 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000. Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is a non-mover at No. 2 with 103,000 equivalent album units earned (down 19%). Four former leaders follow, as Ella Langley’s Dandelion is steady at No. 3 (76,000, down 8%), Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem climbs 5-4 (75,000, down 5%), Drake’s ICEMAN dips 4-5 (68,000, down 15%) and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is stationary at No. 6 (62,000, down 3%). Ken Carson captures his second top 10-charted album as xperiment debuts at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, earning 42,000 equivalent album units. Essentially all of that sum is driven by SEA units, equaling 44.89 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs (it debuts at No. 6 on Top Streaming Albums). The rapper previously hit the top 10 with his chart-topping More Chaos release in 2025. With Michael Jackson’s former No. 1 Thriller falling one spot to No. 8 on the latest Billboard 200 (42,000 equivalent album units, down 12%), the King of Pop is joined by the Queen of Pop, Madonna, in the top 10. Jackson and Madonna have shared space in the top 10 only once previously, on the Dec. 1, 2001-dated chart. That week, Jackson’s chart-topping Invincible fell 3-4 in its third week on the list, while Madonna’s compilation GHV2: Greatest Hits Volume 2 debuted at No. 7. The two icons almost met up once in the 1980s in the top 10, but missed one another by a single week. On the Sept. 19, 1987-dated chart, the Madonna-led Who’s That Girl film soundtrack spent its third and final week in the top 10, at No. 7. The following week (Sept. 26), Who’s That Girl fell to No. 11, while Jackson’s Bad debuted at No. 1. Then, on the Oct. 3-dated chart, Who’s That Girl remained at No. 11, while Bad held at No. 1. Sienna Spiro scores her first entry on the Billboard 200 with her debut full-length studio album, Visitor, launching at No. 9. The set bows with 39,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 22,000 (equaling 22.6 million on-demand official streams; it debuts at No. 25 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 17,000 (it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. First-week sales of the album were bolstered by its availability across 10 vinyl variants (including two signed editions), six CD variants (including four signed editions), one cassette and two download editions. Toby Keith’s chart-topping 35 Biggest Hits returns to the top 10, rising 31-10, following the Independence Day holiday on July 4 in the United States. The set earned nearly 39,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week ending July 9 (up 82%), largely from streaming activity generated by “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” during the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The anthem topped the Hot Country Songs chart in 2002.

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
'Rein Me In' is a 16th time at the summit
Monday, July 13, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Sam Fender & Olivia Dean make chart history as Rein Me In secures its 16th (non-consecutive) week at No.1 to pass Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet – a 15-week topper in 1994 - to become the longest-running No.1 ever by a British act. It thus matches (Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams,

16 weeks at No.1 in 1991 – with the only song in chart history to sustain for longer being American crooner Frankie Laine’s 1953 behemoth, I Believe, which spent 18 weeks at the summit. The release of a pink vinyl 7-inch single couldn’t prevent consumption of Rein Me In from falling 1.66% week-on-week to 41,014 units (174 vinyl singles, 401 digital downloads and 40,439 sales-equivalent streams), its own lowest level for 21 weeks, and the lowest for a No.1 for 50 weeks. Its streaming has underperformed compared to the market for two weeks in a row, and another negative week would see it enter ACR for the first time, surely ending its No.1 status – although I suspect that the demand for its new 7-inch variant was greater than it seems this week, and that more will be shipped in the coming week. Rein Me In is in the Top 40 for the 55th week in a row, shattering the previous record of 54 weeks set by Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud in 2014/2015.

It also raises its tally of weeks in the Top 10 to 38, including 28 in a row. Its overall consumption now stands at 1,992,323 units, comprising 8,315 7-inch singles, 24,514 digital downloads and 1,959,494 sales-equivalent streams. Rein Me In’s continued occupation of the top slot is as much due to a very soft market as anything else. Every record in the Top 10 suffers reduced consumption in the latest frame, apart from the only song to reach a new peak, Choosin’ Texas (9-5, 25,038 sales) by Ella Langley and Free Your Mind (10-10, up 53 to 21,675 sales) by Prospa & Cloonee. Olivia Rodrigo’s Stupid Song claims a fourth straight week at No.2 – its entire chart career thus far - with consumption of just 25,954 units. That is less than half of its first week tally, and the lowest for a No.2 single since Ed Sheeran’s Afterglow tallied 25,725 units five and a half years (287 weeks) ago. The rest of the Top 10: Hate That I Made You Love Me (5-3, 25,706 sales) by Ariana Grande, Billie Jean (3-4, 25,077 sales) by Michael Jackson, American Girls (4-6, 24,575 sales) by Harry Styles, I Knew It I Knew You (7-7, 23,449 sales) by Taylor Swift, The Cure (6-8, 22,860 sales) and Drop Dead (8-9, 22,784 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo. Overall singles consumption is up 0.23% week-on-week to 30,807,452 units, 1.73% above same week 2025 sales of 30,284,451 units. Paid-for sales are down 7.18% week-on-week at 256,055, 8.34% below same week 2025 sales of 279,341. Confessions, they say, are good for the soul – for Madonna, they’re also good for the chart résumé: Confessions On A Dance Floor was No.1 in 2005, and sequel Confessions II debuts atop the chart this week. Madonna’s first No.1 since MDNA in 2012, Confessions II racks up first week consumption of 48,502 units (13,841 CDs, 20,758 vinyl albums, 846 cassettes, 6,577 digital downloads and 6,480 sales-equivalent streams) – 78.14% above the 27,227 units her last studio album, Madame X, achieved when it debuted and peaked at No.2 in 2019. Although well short of Confessions On A Dance Floor’s first week sales of 217,610, Confessions II makes Madonna’s best start since MDNA launched in 2012, with 56,335 units. Helped by the fact it was released in 3 CD and 13 vinyl editions, Confessions II also had £4.99 digital exclusive variants with a Grindr edition adding seven songs recorded live in Times Square, and an instrumental edition adding vocal-free variants of all tracks. Following the template of Confessions On A Dance Floor, with Madonna and Stuart Price responsible for writing and producing every track (some in association with others), Confessions II is Madonna’s 13th No.1 album, including her 1996 soundtrack set, Evita, which also included contributions from others. The only acts to have more are Robbie Williams (16), The Beatles (15) and Taylor Swift (14). Elvis Presley is alongside Madonna on 13, and if their new album, Foreign Tongues debuts at No.1 next week, The Rolling Stones will join them. Madonna will be 68 next month, and although several male soloists – Paul McCartney, Tom Jones, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Paul Simon and Bruce Springsteen – have had No.1 albums of new material at a greater age, that is not the case for women. The oldest living person to have a No.1 was Vera Lynn, whose compilation We'll Meet Again: The Very Best Of, topped the chart in 2009, when she was 92, but all the recordings on that were more than 60 years old at that point. Barbra Streisand was 74 when she topped with new material in the form of Movie Partners Sing Broadway in 2016, but every song thereon was a duet, so its status as a ‘solo’ album is questionable. Confessions II is neither old material nor made up entirely of duets – though there are several collaborations on it – so it is possible to make a case that Madonna is the oldest female solo artist to have a No.1 album of new material, replacing Shania Twain, who was 57, when she topped with Queen Of Me in 2023. Having previously reached No.1 with Like A Virgin (1984 release, 1985 chart-topper), True Blue (1986), Like A Prayer (1989), The Immaculate Collection (1990), Evita (1996 release, 1997 chart-topper), Ray Of Light (1998), Music (2000), American Life (2003), Confessions On A Dance Floor (2005), Hard Candy (2008), Celebration (2009) and MDNA (2012), Madonna has had at least one No.1 album for five different (consecutive, in her case) decades. The only other female solo artist so to do, Kylie Minogue, topped with only a compilation (Greatest Hits) in the 1990s, but Madonna has had at least one studio set topping the chart in each decade, making her achievement superior. Although a significant proportion of Madonna’s chart career was played out in the last century, she is no slouch in the 21st century, with her album consumption from the start of 2000 to midnight yesterday (July 9) standing at 9,797,653 units. That’s the 19th highest 21st century tally for any act, and the fourth highest for a female soloist, trailing only Adele (13,561,909 units), Taylor Swift (13,222,316 units) and Rihanna (9,956,232 units), none of whom were even born before she became a star. Over her career as a whole, Madonna’s most-consumed album is 1990 compilation, The Immaculate Collection, with 3,864,009 units, although it seems to be already certified for 3.9m (13x platinum). Her biggest selling studio album is her third, True Blue, which dates from 1986, and has to-date consumption of 2,109,046 units, and her biggest selling 21st century studio album is 2000 release Music, with to-date consumption of 1,651,282, building on first week sales of 151,891. Madonna’s latest coronation is tough on Sienna Spiro, the critically-acclaimed 20-year-old singer/songwriter from London, whose debut full-length album, Visitor was also released last Friday. Its deluxe edition housing all six of her hit singles to date, Visitor racked up first week consumption of 27,614 units, to debut at No.2. Spiro’s earlier (2025) EP, Sink Now, Swim Later, the original home of her first hit Maybe, has never charted, but has to-date consumption of 26,709 units. Visitor has the biggest first week sale for a debut album thus far in 2026, and surpasses the tally required to be No.1 in 10 of the 28 weeks that have elapsed this year. The rest of the Top 10: You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (2-3, 19,275 sales), The Essential (3-4, 17,768 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Art Of Loving (5-5, 8,862 sales) by Olivia Dean, Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (4-6, 8,286 sales) by Harry Styles, The Great Divide (9-7, 7,129 sales) by Noah Kahan 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-8, 7,117 sales), Thriller (7-9, 6,440 sales) by Michael Jackson and The Ones That Got The Plays (10-10, 6,412 sales) by Katy Perry. Overall album sales are up 0.40% week-on-week to 2,420,887 units, 1.01% above same week 2025 sales of 2,396,734. Physical product accounts for 279,163 sales, 11.53% of the total.