USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' adds landmark 19th week at No. 1
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” achieves a 19th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — tying for the longest run ever atop the chart among non-holiday songs. The smash first led in

February and has already set multiple chart records. The only song in their way historically, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has dominated the Hot 100 each holiday season since the 1994 carol was first No. 1 in 2019 (and could add to its total after it's time once again, for 22 weeks now). “Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having promoted it to country radio, totaled 24.3 million official streams (down 3% week over week), 55.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 7,000 sold (down 10%) in the United States Aug. 14-20. Langley’s first Hot 100 leader holds for a 19th week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs and a 16th week atop Digital Song Sales and rises 6-5, after reaching No. 4, on Radio Songs. Below “Choosin’ Texas” at No. 1 on the Hot 100, Stella Lefty’s “Boston” jumps 4-2 for a new high, surpassing its prior No. 3 peak. Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” dips 2-3, after it spent its first two weeks

on the Hot 100 at No. 1 in June, and Morgan Wallen’s “Been by Now” drops 3-4, after it debuted at its No. 2 high. Country claims another especially prominent week, three weeks after the genre monopolized the entire top five on the Hot 100 for the first time. Of the 12 weeks all-time with country songs at either Nos. 1-3, 1-4 or 1-5, all have occurred since August 2023, powered, in part, by country’s growth in streaming, among other factors. Each song in the rest of the Hot 100’s top 10 holds in place, led by Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” at No. 5 after it led in its debut week in June. Wallen and Langley’s “I Can’t Love You Anymore” is No. 6 on the Hot 100 after hitting No. 4. Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” ranks at No. 7 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 5, with her “Man I Need” at No. 9, after peaking at No. 2. Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” is No. 8 after reaching No. 5 on the Hot 100. Langley’s “Be Her” rounds out the Hot 100’s top 10 at No. 10, after hitting No. 2. Katseye lands its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as WILD debuts atop the list (dated Aug. 29). The set earned 170,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Aug. 20, according to Luminate. Wild marks the group’s second top 10-charted effort, following the No. 4-peaking Beautiful Chaos in 2025. Wild is the fourth No. 1 album by an all-woman group this decade. It follows Twice’s With You-th (2025), NewJeans’ 2nd EP ‘Get Up’ (2023) and Blackpink’s Born Pink (2022). Before Born Pink, the last No. 1 album by an all-woman group was Danity Kane’s Welcome to the Dollhouse in 2008. Wild also lands Katseye its biggest week by equivalent album units earned, and by pure album sales (145,000). Further, Wild tallies the largest week by units for an all-woman group since the Billboard 200 began ranking by units in December 2015. Of Wild’s 170,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 145,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 24,500 (equaling 26.95 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 19 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise about 500. Phoebe Bridgers collects her first top 10-charted set as Lost Weekend debuts at No. 2 with 118,000 equivalent album units earned — the singer-songwriter’s best week ever by units. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 77,000 (her largest sales week; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 41,000 (equaling 41.6 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 7 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. First-week album sales were bolstered by the set’s availability across 16 physical editions (CD, vinyl and cassette). Lost Weekend is Bridgers’ first solo studio album since 2020’s Punisher. In the years since, she formed the supergroup Boygenius with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus. The trio released The Record in 2023, which reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200. The Nos. 3-9 titles on the latest Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s: Stray Kids’ THIS & THAT falls 1-3 in its second week, earning 82,000 equivalent album units (down 78%). Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love dips 3-4 (70,000, down 3%); Ella Langley’s Dandelion descends 4-5 (nearly 70,000, down 1%); Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem shifts down 5-6 (67,000, down 5%); Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide falls 6-7 (56,000, up less than 1%), Ariana Grande’s Petal slides 2-8 (51,000, down 38%); and Drake’s Iceman is a non-mover at No. 9 (43,000, down 5%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving returns to the top 10, up one slot to No. 10 with 41,000 units (up 11%).

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While on his international headline tour for his fourth album,
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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
'Rein Me In' sets a historic record
Monday, August 24, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Rein Me In continues to showboat, spending a 22nd week at No.1, further extending its lead as the longest-running No.1 of all-time for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean. On the ninth week of its fourth run at No.1, its 34rd consecutive week in the Top 10, and 61st straight week in the Top 40, its consumption dips 4.67%

to 41,475 units (593 digital downloads and 40,882 sales-equivalent streams), extending to a record 27 the number of weeks in a row it has exceeded 40,000 units. Its runner-up yet again is Dai Dai by Shakira & Burna Boy, which also suffers a fall in consumption dipping 8.08% to 32,669 units. It is the third straight week Dai Dai has registered a decline in sales-equivalent streams worse than the market as a whole, and it will therefore enter ACR next week. As this will halve its streaming points, it is safe to assume it won’t add to its five consecutive weeks at No.2 – an impressive tally but two fewer than the record of seven straight weeks at No.2 without reaching No.1 set by All-4-One’s I Swear in 1994, and equalled in 2011 by Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera’s Moves Like Jagger. Rein Me In has escaped ACR several times already but if its streams under-perform versus the market next week, it will go to ACR the following week. Californian singer/songwriter Stella

Lefty’s debut album, Long Way Home, dropped today (August 21), simultaneous with which her first hit single, Boston, elevates 9-5 (23,018 sales) achieving yet another new peak on its 19th week in the chart. It is the only song in the Top 10 to increase consumption week-on-week. On 2Nite also continues its climb, improving 10-9 (18,659 sales) for Silva Bumpa. The rest of the Top 10: Choosin’ Texas (3-3, 26,227 sales) by Ella Langley, Movin’ To The Sun (4-4, 25,804 sales) by Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté, Hate That I Made You Love Me (6-6, 21,961 sales) by Ariana Grande, Great Expectation (7-7, 20,426 sales) by Sienna Spiro, The Cure (11-8, 19,106 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo and Man I Need (13-10, 18,605 sales) by Olivia Dean. It is the sixth time that Man I Need has entered/re-entered the Top 10, since it debuted at No.8 a year ago this week. On ACR for most of its life, its unadjusted consumption of 36,975 units is second only to Rein Me In yet again this week, and raises its lifetime consumption to 2,756,612 units compared to Rein Me In’s 2,260,619 units. Overall singles consumption is down 2.23% week-on-week to 29,285,635 units, their lowest level for 32 weeks, and 1.99% below same week 2025 sales of 29,882,452 units. Paid-for sales are down 5.70% week-on-week at 257,916, 5.51% below same week 2025 sales of 272.945. Phoebe Bridgers becomes the fourth female singer/songwriter to debut at No.1 in the last five weeks, with her long-awaited third solo album, Lost Weekend, opening at the apex on consumption of 34,239 units (8,893 CDs, 16,577 vinyl albums, 249 cassettes, 786 digital downloads and 7,734 sales-equivalent streams) – this despite most of her sell-out ‘Intimate Shows’ this week being cancelled after she was hospitalised with appendicitis. Comprising 17 new songs, all of which the 32-year-old Californian wrote or co-wrote, it capitalises on her success as a member of part-time indie supergroup Boygenius, who topped the chart with their introductory full-length album, The Record, on consumption of 18,869 units in 2023. Bridgers’ Boygenius bandmates, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, have cameo roles on two tracks on Lost Weekend. Bridgers’ 2017 solo debut, Stranger In The Alps, peaked at No.173, while 2020 follow-up Punisher peaked at No.6. Both have achieved gold discs, Punisher shifting 199,813 units and Stranger In The Alps 155,419 units, as has Boygenius’ The Record (104,117 units). The Record was the last No.1 album by a female aggregation of more than two – with Bridgers’ solo success this week preventing Los Angeles-based sextet Katseye from claiming the throne with their third EP, Wild, which debuts at No.2 (18,889 units) Following their uncharted 2024 EP SIS (Soft Is Strong) and Beautiful Chaos, which reached No.55 last year, Wild is a very slim offering With five songs and a playing time of well under 14 minutes, it was nevertheless released in no fewer than 19 physical editions (nine CDs, three vinyl and seven cassette variants). From the EP, Pinky Up and Animal have already been Top 20 hits, with Hootie Frutti also making the grade this week. In America, incidentally, Bridgers and Katseye will also occupy the top two slots when the Top 200 is unveiled on Sunday, but in reverse order, with Wild expected to achieve around 170,000 units, and Lost Weekend 110,000. After racking up eight consecutive top two albums – their entire output thus far – in a glorious chart career, The Script have to settle for marginally lower ground with new album, The User’s Guide To Being Human. Debuting at No.3 (15,015 sales), it arrives 18 years after their eponymous first album debuted at No.1 on consumption of 54,520 units. Subsequent studio albums Science & Faith (No.1, 2010), #3 (No.2, 2012), No Sound Without Silence (No.1, 2015), Freedom Child (No.1, 2017), Sunsets & Full Moons (No.1, 2019), Satellites (No.2, 2024) and compilation Tales From The Script: Greatest Hits (No.1, 2017) made them the first Irish band ever to secure eight consecutive top two albums, surpassing even compatriots U2, Boyzone and Westlife. Their self-titled starter remains their most-consumed title (1,367,184 units) followed by Science & Faith (845,704 units) and #3 (813,100 units). In Ireland, The User’s Guide To Being Human maintains The Script’s 100% record, becoming their ninth consecutive No.1 album. London production duo Jungle – Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland – expand to a trio, with the addition of Lydia Kitto to their permanent membership for their soulfully-inflected fifth album Sunshine, which emulates the Top 10 success of its predecessors by debuting at No.4 (12,465 sales). It is the first time that all of the top four albums have been debuts for 60 weeks, with Yungblud, Loyle Carner, Haim and Benson Boone participating in a similar influx in June 2025. Republic Records artists The Weeknd and Ariana Grande benefit from the UK leg of their current After Hours Til Dawn and Eternal Sunshine tours, respectively. Grande’s Petal slips 4-7 (10,383 sales) but its week-on-week decline in consumption of just 7.04% is far below what normally happens to albums on their third frame. Meanwhile, five of her catalogue albums are scaling the Top 75, namely Eternal Sunshine (73-15, 5,074 sales), My Everything (126-51, 2,545 sales), Dangerous Woman (158-57, 2,453 sales) and Top 200 returnees Positions (No.58, 2,429 sales) and Thank U, Next (No.72, 2,216 sales). They have week-on-week increases in consumption of 121.22%, 60.40%, 71.66%, 140.53% and 103.47%, respectively. Meanwhile, The Weeknd’s The Highlights rallies 10-8 (8,940 sales), while Hurry Up Tomorrow zooms 147-43 (2,837 sales). A further five albums by The Weeknd return to the Top 200. The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (2-5, 12,049 sales) by Michael Jackson, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (3-6, 11,752 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Art Of Loving (7-9, 8,275 sales) by Olivia Dean and Visitor (9-10, 7,503 sales) by Sienna Spiro Overall album sales are down 0.65% week-on-week to 2,368,556 units, their lowest level for 32 weeks (ditto singles), and 2.21% below same week 2025 sales of 2,422,030. Physical product accounts for 306,550 sales, 12.94% of the total.