USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' rebounds for 25th week at no.1
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” rises a spot to notch a record-extending 25th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song initially ruled the Top 100 in February, on its way to setting

“Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod/Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having promoted it to country radio, totaled 20 million official streams (up 1% week over week), 58.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (essentially even) and 4,000 sold (down 17%) in the United States Oct. 16-22. The single drops to No. 4 from No. 1 following a record-tying 26 weeks atop the Streaming Songs chart; holds at its No. 2 high on Radio Songs; and falls 2-5 after a record 19 weeks atop Digital Song Sales. “Choosin’ Texas” logs its seventh distinct stay at No. 1 on the Hot 100, previously leading on charts dated Feb. 14; March 7 and 21-28; April 11-25; May 9-23; and July 4-Oct. 3. It extends its mark for the most separate No. 1 runs over a single release cycle. (Overall, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” leads with eight ascents to No. 1 over 2019-25.) Tate McRae’s “Housewife” launches at No. 2 on the Hot 100 with 22.9 million streams, 12.7 million

in airplay audience and 4,000 sold in its first full tracking week, after the song, and its official video, arrived Oct. 15. Plus, she performed it Oct. 18 at the 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Having described the song as about “a woman who can’t be contained,” McRae adds her fourth Hot 100 top 10, and her highest-charting as a lead artist. “Greedy” rose to No. 3 in January 2024; Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” on which she’s featured, led in its debut week in May 2025; and “Tit for Tat” entered at its No. 3 peak last October. “Housewife” debuts atop Streaming Songs, as McRae’s second No. 1 and first in a lead role, after “What I Want” led for six weeks. Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan’s “Expectations” soars 63-3 on the Hot 100, following the Oct. 15 release of its remix, and video, adding Roan. The song was originally released in June by Rodrigo solo on her album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. The track (all versions combined) totaled 18.2 million streams (up 302%), 2.6 million in radio reach (up from a negligible amount), 4,000 downloads sold (up 465%) and 15,000 in first-week physical sales (on cassette, CD and 7-inch vinyl). Also new in the Hot 100’s top five, Zach Bryan’s “Lies,” featuring Lana Del Rey, enters at No. 4 with 19.6 million streams and 5,000 sold. It was released Oct. 16 on Bryan’s new eight-song set, Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs. “Lies” also opens at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, where Bryan and Del Rey each lead for the first time. Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” falls four spots to No. 5 after it reigned in its first three weeks on the Hot 100. With 26,000 in physical sales and 4,000 in downloads, it’s the top-selling song of the week overall. Stella Lefty’s “Boston” descends three places (3-6) on the Hot 100, as does Morgan Wallen’s “Been by Now” (4-7), with both having hit No. 2. Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” drops to No. 8 from its No. 5 Hot 100 high. Adéla’s “Nicole Kidman” dips to No. 9 from its No. 6 Hot 100 best and, rounding out the top 10, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Stupid Song” slips 8-10. Her You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl so in Love returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 31) for a third nonconsecutive week on top. The set surges from the runner-up slot with a 15% gain in equivalent album units earned (75,000) in the United States in the week ending Oct. 22. The increase was largely spurred by the release of a new remix of the album’s latest single, “Expectations,” with Chappell Roan, on Oct. 15, alongside its official music video. Rodrigo’s album spent its first two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated June 27 and July 4) and has yet to leave the weekly top five in its 19 weeks on the list. Of the albums’s 75,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 63,000 (up 19%, equaling 67.14 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it moves 2-1 on Top Streaming Albums for a fifth total week in the lead), album sales comprise 11,000 (down 7%; it climbs 6-3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 121%). Zach Bryan’s Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs launches at No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200 with 65,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 59,500 (equaling 60.46 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 5,000 (it was only available to purchase as a standard download album; it debuts at No. 15 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000. The CD and vinyl editions of the album are due out in December. The announcement of the new set on Oct. 12 came shortly after Bryan wrapped his With Heaven on Tour concert trek on Oct. 10. Bryan will hit the road again beginning on April 28, 2027, with the Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs Tour. With the arrival of Bryan’s newest release, his tally of charted titles on the Billboard 200 rises to 10. Of those, six have reached the top 10: Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs (No. 2 in 2026), With Heaven on Top (No. 1, 2026), The Great American Bar Scene (No. 2, 2024), Boys of Faith (No. 8, 2023), his self-titled album (No. 1 for two weeks in 2023) and American Heartbreak (No. 5, 2022). The next four titles on the latest Billboard 200 are former No. 1s: Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is a non-mover at No. 3 (54,000 equivalent album units earned, down 2%), Ella Langley’s Dandelion is steady at No. 4 (49,000, down 7%), Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl falls 1-5 (42,000, down 52%) and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide dips 5-6 (40,000, down 9%). Drake’s Habibti slips 6-7 (35,000 equivalent album units earned, down 20%), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is stationary at No. 8 (33,000, down less than 1%), Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving falls 7-9 (nearly 33,000, down 8%) and SZA’s chart-topping SOS steps 11-10 (30,000, down less than 1%).

Record Of The Month: "Stop The Wedding!" by Ashe... Shortly after marrying her second husband in 2025, Ashe reflected on her first marriage and how her ex-husband's behavior during their wedding had foreshadowed their divorce. This realization inspired her to write the song, in which she pleads to her younger self to leave her prior marriage before the problems could begin.

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Jamie Miller's 'Babydoll' remains no.1
Monday, November 2, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
The top two consolidate their positions at the sharp end of the chart this week, with each securing the highest consumption for their respective positions for 19 weeks. Leading the way for the second time, Jamie Miller’s debut hit, Babydoll, continues to ignite, increasing consumption a further 46.88% week-on-

week to 69,840 units with digital downloads making a stellar contribution of 9,547 units (sales-equivalent streams: 60,293), as both the solo and Antonio Cipriano duet versions of the track were priced for purchase at 59p. After becoming Tate McRae’s highest-charting hit when it debuted at No.2 last week, Housewife ups consumption 7.93% to 50,720 units, but its 99p download makes a far lesser contribution of 339 units, only the 19th highest of any track. Climbing a notch to return to the No.3 peak it first scaled a fortnight ago, Stop The Wedding! increases consumption for the 11th week in a row for Ashe since its release, with a 3.78% hike to 34,288 units. Sombr’s latest hit, My Body Isn’t Ready has executed a perfectly palindromic 10-13-10-10-13-10 cycle, and its fourth week at its No.10 peak is accompanied by its highest yet consumption of 18,005 units. The rest of the Top 10: Expectations (3-4, 34,238 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan, Great

Expectations (5-5, 27,973 sales) by Sienna Spiro, Choosin’ Texas (6-6, 23,370 sales) by Ella Langley, Nicole Kidman (8-7, 23,242 sales) by Adéla, Rein Me In (11-8, 18,716 sales) by Sam Fender & Olivia Dean and The Cure (9-9, 18,585 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo. Overall singles consumption is up 1.56% week-on-week to 29,646,410 units, 4.32% below same week 2025 sales of 30,984,457 units. Paid-for sales are up 5.40% week-on-week at 263,181, 5.84% below same week 2025 sales of 279,507. Denied a No.1 debut in 2006 when its introductory sale of 85,805 units was inferior to the 147,236 opening made by Robbie Williams’ Rudebox, My Chemical Romance’s third and most celebrated album, The Black Parade, finally reaches the summit, after being released in a plethora of 20th anniversary editions. Catapulting 162-1 with consumption soaring 1353.31% week-on-week to 20,172 units (7,977 CDs, 9,257 vinyl albums, 978 cassettes, 346 digital downloads and 1,614 sales-equivalent streams), it is the first album by the New Jersey rock band to reach No.1. On its third week in the Top 10, 24th week in the Top 40, 56th week in the Top 75 and 171st week in the Top 200, it increases the album’s already substantial lead as the band’s most-consumed title, raising its cume to 1,256,082 units. That’s more than their three other studio sets together: their No.9 2004 second album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, is on 662,536 units; most recent (2010) No.2 set Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys is on 312,470 units; and 2002 No.129 debut I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love is on 172,042 units. Although it is 16 years since their last new studio album, My Chemical Romance are still extant, and toured ahead of The Black Parade’s 20th birthday earlier this year, raising it as high as No.21 just 15 weeks ago. The week after The Black Parade debuted at No.2, Amy Winehouse’s second album, Back To Black, debuted at No.3. It reached No.1 10 weeks later, eventually spending seven weeks at the summit in original and deluxe editions, most recently topping the chart in 2011, shortly after her death. Newly expanded with previously unreleased demos, rare b-sides and live recordings, it surges 112-4 (11,318 sales), reaching the Top 10 for the first time since it got to No.7 on the 10th anniversary of Winehouse’s death in 2021. It too had a split chart career, with the original and deluxe versions charting separately before being united. The OCC website shows it as having spent 365 weeks in the Top 75, 571 weeks in the Top 100 and 913 weeks in the Top 200 – but these tallies don’t include the chart run of the deluxe edition, which spent 61 weeks in the Top 200, 56 of them, in the Top 100, and 53 of them in the Top 75. Across all versions, Back To Black’s cumulative consumption of 4,663,829 units is the 11th highest of any album, the eighth highest of a studio album, and the second highest of an album by a female soloist, trailing only Adele’s 21 (5,755,621 units). It is also second to 21 among all 21st century album releases. In addition to the total listed above, Back To Black was issued in a double pack with Frank, in which configuration it achieved a further 66,469 sales, peaking at No.10. No.1 on debut last week, Dopamine Chamber suffers an 80.54% dip in consumption to 13,639 units for Fontaines DC as it falls to No.2. In 2014 to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of their No.6 third album, The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers embarked on a sell-out tour performing the album in its entirety. The Holy Bible – Live, capturing their December 2014 performances over three nights at London’s Roundhouse, is the only bona fide new entry to the Top 10 (No.10, 6,548 sales), and becomes the veteran Welsh rockers’ 20th Top 20 album – their entire output. The rest of the Top 10: You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (2-3, 12,548 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Essential (3-5, 10,128 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Art Of Loving (4-6, 8,432 sales) by Olivia Dean, Visitor (5-7, 7,876 sales) by Sienna Spiro, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-8, 7,037 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and The Highlights (7-9, 6,824 sales) by The Weeknd. Exiting the Top 10: The Ones That Got The Plays (10-12, 5,987 sales) by Katy Perry, Time Flies: 1994-2009 (8-14, 5,638 sales) by Oasis and – after debuting at No.9 last week – Rachel Chinouriri’s now uncharted second album, I Think I Spoke Too Soon (749 sales). Overall album sales are down 1.22% week-on-week to 2,403,179 units, 9.59% below same week 2025 sales of 2,658,170. Physical product accounts for 308,507 sales, 12.84% of the total..