USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' hits historic 11th week at No. 1
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” rebounds a spot for another historic-making week atop the Billboard Hot 100. With an 11th week in command, the song becomes the sole longest-leading

Hot 100 No. 1 by a woman with a country hit. The hit adds another unprecedented feat: Langley’s first Hit 100 leader stakes its sixth distinct stay at No. 1, previously leading on charts dated Feb. 14; March 7 and 21-28; April 11-25; and May 9-23. It solely claims the most separate No. 1 stays over a single release cycle, one-upping the five flights for Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” in 2023 and Harry Styles’ “As It Was” in 2022. (Overall, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” leads with eight ascents to No. 1 over 2019-25.) Amid the No. 1 run on the Hot 100 for the resilient “Choosin’ Texas,” eight other songs have taken turns at the top: Bad Bunny’s “DtMF”; Taylor Swift’s “Opalite;” Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might”; BTS’ “Swim”; Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead”; Drake’s “Janice STFU”; Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me”; and Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You.” (The reigns of “Last Night” and “As It Was” were interrupted by six No. 1s each.) “Choosin’ Texas,”

on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having promoted it to country radio, totaled 25.5 million official streams, 48.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (essentially even in both metrics week over week) and 8,000 sold (up 4%) in the United States June 19-25. The single rebounds a spot for a 12th week atop the Streaming Songs chart; dips to No. 6 from its No. 4 high on Radio Songs; and rises one place for a 10th week atop Digital Song Sales. Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” descends to No. 2 after spending its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1. (It has the most total sales for the week: 41,000, with 35,000 from vinyl copies.) Langley tallies two more songs in the Hot 100’s top 10: “Be Her” rises 5-3 after reaching No. 2 — she also performed it during CMA Fest — and “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” with Wallen, climbs 14-9 after reaching No. 7. Notably, this week marks the first in the Hot 100’s history in which women hold the top three with country songs, thanks to Langley and Swift. Two Olivia Rodrigo songs rank in the Hot 100’s top 10: “Stupid Song,” which slips 3-4 in its second week, and “Drop Dead,” down 4-5 after it led in its debut week in early May. Drake’s “Janice STFU” lifts 7-6 after spending its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 beginning in late May. Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” pushes 8-7 three weeks after it debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100. Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” is up 10-8 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 2. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” levitates back to its peak (18-10). Olivia Rodrigo spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated July 4) with you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, earning 180,000 equivalent album units its second week (down 63%) in the United States, according to Luminate. It premiered at No. 1 a week ago with 485,000 units — the largest week of 2026 for any album by a soloist. The album also sits tight at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums and Top Album Sales for a second stanza. Of Rodrigo’s three Billboard No. 1s (all of which have debuted on top), her latest is her second to rule for multiple weeks. Sour dominated for five weeks in 2021, while Guts led for one frame in 2023. Of you seem pretty sad’s 180,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 132,500 (down 37%, equaling 137.14 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a second week at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 47,500 (down 83%) and TEA units comprise the remainder (down 44%). You seem pretty sad is the sixth album in a row to spend consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It follows Drake’s ICEMAN (four weeks), Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide (three), Ella Langley’s Dandelion (two), BTS’ ARIRANG (three) and Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. (two). Before Styles first led the list dated March 21, Bruno Mars’ The Romantic led for one week. The rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 is exceptionally static — no albums debut in the top 10, and no albums move up or down in rank as compared to a week ago. Five former No. 1s follow Rodrigo: Drake’s Iceman is No. 2 (90,000 equivalent album units, down 15%), Ella Langley’s Dandelion is No. 3 (84,000, up less than 1%), Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is No. 4 (79,000, up 2%), Kahan’s The Great Divide is No. 5 (67,000, down 6%) and Michael Jackson’s Thriller is No. 6 (53,000, down less than 1%). Michael Jackson’s Number Ones is No. 7 (47,000 equivalent album units, down 3%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time is No. 8 (39,000, up 1%), Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is No. 9 (35,000, up less than 1%) and BTS’ Arirang is No. 10 (33,000, down 5%).

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' returns to the summit
Monday, June 29, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Making chart history has become second nature to  Rein Me In, the indefatigable smash hit collaboration between Sam Fender and Olivia Dean, which celebrates the beginning of its second year of unbroken chart presence by rebounding 4-1, to become the first song ever to rise to No.1 four times in the same chart

run. Eclipsing triple toppers I Believe by Frankie Laine (1953), Singing The Blues by Guy Mitchell 1957), Happy by Pharrell Williams (2014), What Do You Mean? by Justin Bieber (2015), Despacito by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber (2017) and Blinding Lights by The Weeknd (2020), Rein Me In first topped the chart in February, spending three weeks at the summit. Pushed down to No.2, it returned immediately for a further five weeks, and was then overhauled for a week before spending a further five weeks on top. The song to have most runs at No.1 overall is  Last Christmas by Wham!, which has risen to the top seven times in five different chart runs since 2020. Rein Me In’s return to the apex comes with a modest 2.43% increase in consumption to 43,461 units (three 7-inch singles, 398 digital downloads and 43,060 sales-equivalent streams). That’s the lowest tally for a No.1 since its own first week at the summit on consumption of 43,425 units

18 weeks ago.  Back on top after a gap of three weeks, its overall tally of weeks at No.1 to 14 – more than any other song in the 2020s – moving ahead of Ordinary, which spent 13 weeks at No.1 for  Alex Warren last year. It moves into joint fifth place for most weeks at No.1 in chart history, alongside Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and Shape Of You by Ed Sheeran. It trails only I Believe (18 weeks) by Frankie Laine, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (17 weeks) by Bryan Adams, Love Is All Around (15 weeks) by Wet Wet Wet and One Dance (15 weeks) by Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla.  It has now completed 53 consecutive weeks in the Top 40, one fewer than the all-time record holder, Thinking Out Loud by  Ed Sheeran. It also registers its 36th (non-consecutive) week in the Top 10, moving clear in fourth place on that list. Twenty-six of those weeks have come consecutively this year, placing it ahead of Rema’s Calm Down (25 weeks) in third place for most consecutive weeks in the Top 10, and the longest for 72 years.   Twenty-three weeks after entering the Top 75, Choosin’ Texas finally makes the Top 10 for Ella Langley. The first Top 10 hit for the 27-year-old country star from Alabama, the track spent 10 weeks at No.1 on the US Hot 100, and climbs 14-9 (24,633 sales) here this week. Langley’s Be Her – which peaked at No.50 10 weeks ago – also reaches a new high, climbing 62-43 (9,646 sales). As phenomenally successful biopic Michael becomes available to stream,  Michael Jackson’s 1983 No.1, Billie Jean, rebounds yet again. Climbing 7-3 (29,676 sales), it equals the peak of its current chart run, as previously achieved six weeks ago, and matched four weeks ago. It is, however, the lowest consumption it has achieved in the eight weeks since it returned to the Top 10 in May – a run, incidentally, which surpasses the six weeks it spent in the Top 10 in its initial 1983 chart run. After securing a second week at No.1 with CDs,  I Knew It, I Knew You  now dips to No.7 (26,220 sales) for Taylor Swift. No.1 on debut 15 weeks ago but absent from the Top 10 for the last nine weeks, American Girls jumps 12-8 (25,553 sales) for Harry Styles, as his Wembley Arena residency continues. Although Aperture drifts 25-27 (12,374 sales), Styles’ chart eligible triumvirate is completed by 2017 No.1 Sign Of The Times, which returns to the Top 20 for the first time in nine years, rising 29-20 (13,701 sales).   The rest of the Top 10: Stupid Song (2-2, 33,035 sales), The Cure (3-4, 29,069 sales) and Drop Dead (5-5, 27,843 sales) by  Olivia Rodrigo, Hate That I Made You Love Me (6-6, 27,151 sales) by Ariana Grande and Beat It (8-10, 22,919 sales) by Michael Jackson. Overall singles consumption is up 0.18% week-on-week to 31,571,265 units, 2.16% above same week 2025 sales of 30,902,628 units. Paid-for sales are down 16.89% week-on-week at 252,085, 13.18% below same week 2025 sales of 290,343. Becoming only the second album to spend its first two weeks at No.1 in 2026, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love had to come from behind to retain its title for  Olivia Rodrigo, eventually doing so on consumption of 28,002 units (2,375 CDs, 2,012 vinyl albums, 224 cassettes, 249 digital downloads and 23,142 sales-equivalent streams) – a 72.76% dip week-on-week, and the lowest consumption for a No.1 album for nine weeks. In the first five of the week’s sales flashes, it was trailing My Mess, My Heart, My Life, the introductory full-length album by  Myles Smith.  A 28-year-old from Luton – who previously reached No.32 on the album chart with his 2024 EP, A Minute…, which has to-date consumption of 119,486 units, including its later length-doubling A Minute, A Moment … edition – Smith co-wrote all 15 songs and co-produced most on My Mess, My Heart My Life. Home to three middling hit singles – Stay (If You Wanna Dance) (No.32), Niall Horan duet Drive Safe (No.27) and My Mess (No.58) – My Mess, My Heart, My Life has the best first week consumption of any debut album thus far in 2026, opening at No.2 with 22,679 units.  Alluded to above, the other album to spend its first two weeks at No.1 is  Kiss All The Time, Disco, Occasionally by Harry Styles, which dips 3-4 (10,338 sales), as his Wembley Arena residency continues. There are, however, slight climbs for his other albums, Harry’s House (30-28, 3,642 sales), Fine Line (34-33, 3,431 sales) and Harry Styles (196-185, 1,276 sales).  The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (2-3, 21,759 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Art Of Loving (4-5, 9,569 sales) by Olivia Dean, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-6, 7,772 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Thriller (7-7, 7,771 sales) by Michael Jackson, Iceman (6-8, 7,188 sales) by Drake, The Great Divide (8-9, 7,018 sales) by Noah Kahan and The Highlights (10-10, 6,675 sales) by The Weeknd.  Overall album sales are down 3.45% week-on-week to 2,442,080 units, 0.52% below same week 2025 sales of 2,454,906. Physical product accounts for 248,527 sales, 10.18% of the total.