USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' tallies 12th week at No. 1
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” holds for a 12th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song’s latest history: The hit, which first led the Hot 100 in February, joins an elite 25 others

over the chart's archives, which dates to August 1958, that have reigned for a dozen weeks or more. Among songs by women with no male-billed acts, it’s one of just five, and the only one by an act known for primarily recording country music. “Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having promoted it to country radio, totaled 25.8 million official streams (up 1% week over week), 49.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 3%) and 9,000 sold (up 6%) in the United States June 26-July 2. The single holds for a 13th week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart; keeps at No. 6 after reaching No. 4 on Radio Songs; and continues for an 11th week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales. Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in January and led for three weeks through March, rebounds 12-10. It tops Radio Songs for a 20th week (64.3 million, essentially even) — becoming just the fourth title to reach that benchmark

since the chart began in December 1990. Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” has and holds the No. 2 spot on the Hot 100, after spending its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1 in June. Langley claims two more songs in the Hot 100’s top 10: “Be Her” is steady at No. 3 after reaching No. 2 and “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” with Morgan Wallen, jumps 9-6 for a new high. She adds her sixth week with three simultaneous top 10s this year — one more than all other acts combined. (In that span, Bad Bunny and Drake each have two weeks with three or more concurrent top 10s and Olivia Rodrigo has one.) Drake’s “Janice STFU” climbs 6-4 after spending its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 beginning in late May. Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” pushes 8-5 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 2. Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” keeps at No. 7 after it led the Hot 100 in its debut week in May. Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” rises 10-8 for a new Hot 100 high. Plus, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead” is down 5-9 after it topped the Hot 100 in its first week in early May. Ateez captures its third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as Golden Hour: Part.5 arrives atop the tally (dated July 11). The group previously hit No. 1 with Golden Hour: Part.2 in 2024 and The Wolrd EP.Fin : Will in 2023. Dating to its first in 2022, the group has racked up nine top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 and stands as the group with the most top 10s in the 2020s. The new set launches with 228,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 3, largely driven by pure album sales (223,000). Both figures represent career-highs for the act. Of Gölden Hour: Part.5’s 228,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 223,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 5,000 (equaling 4.96 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set is the lone debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. Olivia Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love falls to No. 2 after two weeks in the lead, earning 127,000 equivalent album units in its third chart week (down 29%). Five fellow former No. 1s are next on the list. Ella Langley’s Dandelion is a non-mover at No. 3 (82,000 equivalent album units, down 3%), Drake’s Iceman dips 2-4 (80,000, down 11%), Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem falls 4-5 (79,000, down less than 1%), Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is down 5-6 (64,000, down 4%) and Michael Jackson’s Thriller descends 6-7 (48,000, down 10%). His Number Ones falls 7-8 (43,000, down 9%). Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time is down 8-9 with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%), while Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving rounds out the top 10, falling 9-10 with 34,000 (down 1%).

Record Of The Month
While on his international headline tour for his fourth album,
Oliver Tree and five other people died in a helicopter crash in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Now, some of his songs are experiencing a resurgence on the charts, most notably 'Life Goes On'.

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
'Rein In Me' is a 15th time at the summit
Monday, July 6, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
When Sam Fender wrote Rein Me In in 2021, he didn’t think it had the potential to be a single. When a duet between Fender and Olivia Dean was mooted, his label submitted a different song off his People Watching album for her consideration. Fender insisted they allow her to choose from all of the tracks.

And, of course, she chose Rein Me In, making some changes, and earning a co-writer’s credit along the way. So here we are, with Rein Me In at No.1 for the second week in a row, and 15th time in total in a chart run for the ages. In the Top 10 for the 37th time in total – a mark surpassed by only Christmas accumulators All I Want For Christmas Is You and Fairytale Of New York – and the 27th week in a row, a total surpassed only by Frankie Laine’s 35-week-run with I Believe, it is one of the biggest hits of all-time Remaining in the Top 40 for the 54th week in a row – equalling the all-time record set by Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud in 2014/2015 – is has shown remarkable resilience, although its consumption does dip 4.03% week-on-week to 41,708 units (seven 7-inch singles, 361 digital downloads and 41,340 sales-equivalent streams). That is its lowest level for 20 weeks, the lowest of any of its weeks at No.1, and the lowest for any No.1 since Daisies was

top on consumption of 40,643 units for Justin Bieber 49 weeks ago. Rein Me In moves into joint fourth place for most weeks at No.1 in chart history, alongside Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet and One Dance by Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla, with only I Believe (18 weeks) by Frankie Laine and (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (17 weeks) by Bryan Adams ahead of it. Laine was American, Adams is Canadian, meaning that Rein Me In shares with the Wet Wet Wet title the honour of being the longest-running No.1 by a British act. The fact that Rein Me In has constantly flirted with ACR but always managed to avoid it (thus far) gives it the appearance of being a bigger record than Dean’s solo cut Man I Need and Alex Warren’s Ordinary. In reality, although an early ACR victim that has spent only one week at No.1 on the main chart, Man I Need has racked up 13 weeks at No.1 on the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart, returning to the summit last week, but dipping back to No.2 this week with unadjusted consumption of 41,351 units (357 fewer than Rein Me In), compared to the 20,853 it has under ACR, which mean it remains at No.11 on the main chart. By the same token, although Ordinary spent 13 weeks on the main chart, it topped the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart 18 times. Meanwhile, although Rein Me In has spent 15 weeks atop the main chart, it has spent only 11 at No.1 on the Top 200 Combined Tracks list. The to-date consumption of the three tracks: Ordinary – 3,039,795, Man I Need – 2,485,223 and Rein Me In – 1,951,310. Despite its own falling consumption, Rein Me In has a considerable lead at the top of the chart, in an unchanged top three, where Stupid Song remains at No.2 (27,400 sales) with Michael Jackson’s 1983 chart-topper Billie Jean static at No.3 (26,564 sales). Stupid Song has the lowest consumption for a No.2 since Ed Sheeran’s Afterglow tallied 25,725 units five and a half years (286 weeks) ago. Having switched directions eight times in a 14-week chart residency, Free Your Mind (12-10, 21,622 sales) finally makes the Top 10 for Leeds electronic artists and DJs Prospa (28-year-old Harvey Blumler and 29-year-old Guiorgi Smith) and UK-born, Us-based Cloonee (29-year-old Dave Bissett). Harry Styles’ resurgent former No.1 American Girls is the most obvious beneficiary of his Wembley Arena residency, jumping 8-4 (26,296 sales), to achieve its highest position for 13 weeks. The rest of the Top 10: Hate That I Made You Love Me (6-5, 26,205 sales) by Ariana Grande, The Cure (4-6, 25,734 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, I Knew It, I Knew You (7-7, 24,660 sales) by Taylor Swift, Drop Dead (5-8, 24,319 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo and Choosin’ Texas (9-9, 24,284 sales) by Ella Langley. Overall singles consumption is down 2.64% week-on-week to 30,736,888 units, their lowest level for 24 weeks, and 0.28% below same week 2025 sales of 30,823,160 units. Paid-for sales are up 9.44% week-on-week at 275,873, 20.24% below same week 2025 sales of 345,874. Muse become the first group and second act in chart history to debut at No.1 with eight consecutive albums this week, with their 10th studio set, The Wow! Signal opening atop the list on consumption of 34,933 units (14,848 CDs, 15,256 vinyl albums, 563 cassettes, 1,756 digital downloads and 2,510 sales-equivalent streams). Although it is well clear of the rest of the field – its nearest challenger is former incumbent You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, which dips to No.2 on consumption of 22,072 units, after a fortnight at the summit for Olivia Rodrigo – it is their lowest first week tally since their first album, Showbiz, which ultimately peaked at No.29, debuted at No.69 on consumption of 2,901 units in 1999. Their subsequent studio albums, first week tallies, and year of release: Origin Of Symmetry (45,652 sales, 2001), Absolution (71,597 sales, 2003), Black Holes & Revelations (115,144 sales, 2006), The Resistance (148,161 sales, 2009), The 2nd Law (108,536 sales, 2012), Drones (72,863 sales, 2015), Simulation Theory (44,320 sales, 2018) and Will Of The People (51,510 sales, 2022). All debuted at No.1, except Origin Of Symmetry, which debuted and peaked at No.3. The band has also charted with compilation Hullabaloo, which debuted and peaked at No.10, with first week sales of 16,384 in 2002; live album, HAARP, which opened and peaked at No.2, on sales of 45,276 copies in 2008; Live At Rome Olympic Stadium, which attracted 10,509 sales to open at No.36 in 2013; and Origin Of Muse, a box set containing remastered expanded versions of their first two albums, which sold 2,688 copies debuting and peaking at No.70 in 2019. Overall sales of Muse albums in the UK now stand at 5,999,273, with top tallies of 1,237,613 for Black Holes & Revelations, 1,023,122 for Absolution and 832,202 for The Resistance. Taylor Swift and Eminem are the only acts to have more consecutive studio albums debut at No.1 than Muse, with her current unbroken string standing at 13, and his at nine – but Muse could be sharing top group honours with Kasabian later this year. Missing out only with their eponymous debut, which reached No.4, the Leicester band has seven consecutive No.1 debuts under its belt, and will try for an eighth when their ninth album, Act III, is released in September. A trio nominally from Teignmouth in Devon – where they went to school and met, though none of them were born there – Muse have had the same line-up since they adopted the name in the late 1990s, and all of their No.1s have occurred since 2003. The only group with more No.1 albums this century is Coldplay (10) – Westlife also have eight. In the whole of chart history, 21 acts have had more No.1 albums than Muse, nine of them groups. Fronted by the enigmatic Taylor Momsen, New York rock quartet The Pretty Reckless land their fourth Top 10 album with their fifth studio set, Dear God, debuting at No.6 (9,813 sales). It thus equals their highest ever chart placing, as previously achieved by 2010’s Light Me Up (with their best ever first week sale of 11,916 units) and most recent album, Death By Rock And Roll, which had a lesser debut tally of 5,119 units in 2021. The band are considerably more successful here than in their native America, where they have had only one Top 10 album, with Dear God on schedule to fall short of the Top 20. Released last week, Katy Perry’s new single, Watch It Burn falls, well short of becoming her 36th hit, with first week consumption of 3,756 units. Her back catalogue fares better: her first ever compilation, The Ones That Got The Plays, which debuted at No.13 seven weeks ago, and has subsequently spent four weeks at its peak of No.12, becomes her sixth Top 10 album, climbing to No.10 (6,623 sales). Meanwhile, her most successful album with greater consumption than the rest of her catalogue combined, 2010 No.1 Teenage Dream, went septuple platinum last month. It moves 36-35 on its 331st week in the Top 75 (the last 26 consecutively), its 439th in the Top 100, and its 696th in the Top 200, with consumption of 3,361 units raising its all-time tally to 2,113,617. Both The Ones That Got The Plays and Teenage Dream host Perry’s single The One That Got Away, a 2011 No.18 hit which reverses 28-33 (11,175 sales) on the ninth week of its viral chart resurgence. It remains Perry’s ninth most-consumed track (1,698,970 units). The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (3-3, 19,536 sales) by Michael Jackson, Kiss All The Time: Disco, Occasionally (4-4, 10,346 sales) by Harry Styles, The Art Of Loving (5-5, 9,873 sales) by Olivia Dean, Thriller (7-7, 7,072 sales) by Michael Jackson, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-8, 7,059 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and The Great Divide (9-9, also 7,059 sales) by Noah Kahan. Overall album sales are down 1.26% week-on-week to 2,411,257 units, their lowest level for 25 weeks, and 1.90% below same week 2025 sales of 2,457,919. Physical product accounts for 280,202 sales, 11.62% of the total.