USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Choosin' Texas' adds landmark 17th week at No. 1
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

“Choosin’ Texas” is now the sole fourth-longest-leading hit all-time. Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” tallies a 17th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, solely claiming the fourth-longest

command in the chart’s history. The single first led the list in February. “Choosin’ Texas,” on Sawgod / Columbia Records, with Triple Tigers having promoted it to country radio, totaled 24.9 million official streams (down 2% week over week), 54.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 4%, thanks in part to it reaching the top 10 on Pop Airplay) and 9,000 sold (up 9%) in the United States July 31-Aug. 6. Langley’s first Hot 100 leader rises a spot for a 17th week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs; holds at No. 6, after reaching No. 4, on Radio Songs; and climbs two places for a 14th week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales. Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” surges 8-2 on the Hot 100, after it ruled in its first week in May, and her new set’s title cut debuts at No. 4, powered by 17.9 million streams, 3.8 million in radio reach and 6,000 sold in its first week, following the album’s July 31 release. The latter song’s gory official video premiered the same

day. Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Wallen’s “Been by Now” drops 2-3 in its second week on the chart. Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” descends 3-5, after it spent its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 in June. Stella Lefty’s “Boston” backtracks 5-6 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3. Wallen and Langley’s “I Can’t Love You Anymore” falls to No. 7 from its No. 4 Hot 100 high. “Dracula” by Tame Impala and Jennie dips 6-8 after reaching No. 5 on the Hot 100. Olivia Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” slides 7-9 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 5. Plus, Langley’s “Be Her” is down 9-10 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2.Ariana Grande earns her seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as petal premieres atop the Aug. 15-dated tally. The set launches with 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Aug. 6, marking the singer-songwriter’s biggest week by units in the 2020s. The set also bows with Grande’s biggest week by pure album sales in more than a decade. With a seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Grande ties for the fifth-most leaders among solo women. Taylor Swift leads with 15, followed by Barbra Streisand (11), Madonna (10), Beyoncé (eight) and Janet Jackson, Lady Gaga and Grande (seven ach), dating to the chart’s start as a regularly published ranking in 1956. Grande previously led with Eternal Sunshine (No. 1 for three weeks in 2024), Positions (two, 2020), Thank U, Next (two, 2019), Sweetener (one, 2018), My Everything (one, 2014) and Yours Truly (2013). Further, the new album marks the entertainer’s 10th top 10 on the chart. Of petal’s 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, album sales comprise 168,000 (Grande’s second-largest sales week ever — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 126,000 (equaling 128.83 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it also debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and 1,000 TEA units. Grande’s only larger album sales week was registered when My Everything debuted with 169,000 sold in 2014. The new set was released in its first week across more than 10 digital download and streaming variants (including six with assorted bonus tracks including live cuts, voice notes, a cappellas and instrumentals), 10 vinyl variants (including a signed edition), five CD variants (including a signed edition) and two cassettes. Its vinyl sales totaled 96,000 for the week — Grande’s best week on vinyl ever, and 2026’s fifth-largest week on vinyl overall. Grande’s new album was announced on April 28 and preceded by her ninth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” which debuted atop the list dated June 13. Grande is in the midst of her The Eternal Sunshine Tour, which launched on June 6 and continues through Sept. 1. The Nos. 2-7 titles on the latest Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s: Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem falls 1-2 (75,000 equivalent album units, down 6%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love dips 2-3 (74,000, down 7%). The next four titles are all non-movers for the week: Ella Langley’s Dandelion is No. 4 (72,000, down 3%), Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is No. 5 (59,000, down 5%), Drake’s Iceman is No. 6 (48,000, down 10%), and Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is No. 7 (38,000, down 4%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is up a spot to No. 8 (37,000 equivalent album units, up 1%), Michael Jackson’s former No. 1 Thriller falls 8-9 (36,000, down 7%), and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is steady at No. 10 (35,000, up less than 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 Me In' sets a historic record
Monday, August 10, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Media coverage of its record-breaking run at No.1 helped Rein Me In to increase consumption week-on-week by 4.52%, to 46,486 units (one 7-inch single, 2,582 digital downloads and 43,903 sales-equivalent streams), for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, as it becomes the first record in chart history to spend

20 weeks at the summit. On the seventh week of its fourth run at No.1, its 32nd consecutive week in the Top 10, and 59th straight week in the Top 40, Rein Me In was only a week away from falling into ACR but its latest fillip is enough to postpone that possibility until at least four weeks from now. Although, famously, it has now surpassed the 18 weeks at No.1 by Frankie Laine’s 1953 hit I Believe, it has still to overhaul the grand total of 22 weeks at No.1 for the Ervin Drake, Al Stillman, Jimmy Shirl & Irvin Graham song, which spent a further four weeks at No.1 in 1995 for Robson & Jerome. Its challenge faltering, as memories of the World Cup fade, the football tournament’s official theme, Dai Dai, spends a third consecutive week at its peak position of No.2 for Shakira & Burna Boy, with consumption easing 11.91% week-on-week to 37,068 units. The two highest of six new entries to the Top 75 this week are tracks from Ariana Grande’s new No.1 album, Petal – the

title track debuting at No.4 (29,631 sales) and Kiss Me at No.15 (17,850 sales), raising her career tally of Top 75 hits to 57, and Top 10 to 27. They join the album’s introductory single, Hate That I Made You Love Me, which debuted at No.1 nine weeks ago, and now rebounds 9-3 (32,850 sales). The other nine tracks on Petal are ‘starred-out’ between No.19 and No.27 under primary artist rules. Overall consumption of Grande tracks in the week of 321,149 units raises her lifetime singles consumption to a staggering 58,376,219 units. Sienna Spiro’s sixth hit, Great Expectation, becomes her second Top 10 entry, rising 15-10 (19,393 sales). The rest of the Top 10: Choosin’ Texas (3-5, 26,788 sales) by Ella Langley, Stupid Song (4-6, 25,437 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Movin’ To The Sun (7-7, 23,890 sales) by Hugel, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté, Talk To You (5-8, 23,594 sales) by Anotr & 54 Ultra and Free Your Mind (6-9, 22,390 sales) by Prospa & Cloonee. The Cure (9-11, 19,240 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo and Man I Need (10-12, 19,172 sales) by Olivia Dean exit the Top 10. Overall singles consumption is down 1.34% week-on-week to 30,446,572 units, 2.38% above same week 2025 sales of 29,738,800 units. Paid-for sales are also down 1.34% week-on-week at 266,076, 4.63% below same week 2025 sales of 278,989. Ariana Grande’s eighth studio album, Petal, makes a convincing debut atop the chart on consumption of 47,889 units (9,954 CDs, 16,916 vinyl albums, 1,327 cassettes, 1,553 digital downloads and 18,139 sales-equivalent streams) ahead of the UK leg of her Eternal Sunshine tour. It is the sixth consecutive No.1 for the 33-year-old singer/songwriter from Florida, following Dangerous Woman (2016), Sweetener (2018), Thank U, Next (2019), Positions (2020) and Eternal Sunshine (2024). Additionally, her 2013 debut Yours Truly reached No.7 and follow-up My Everything reached No.3 in 2014. Home to Hate That I Made You Love Me – a No.1 single in June – Petal includes a dozen new Grande tracks, all written with Ilya, who also co-produced the album with her. Swedish hit machine Max Martin co-wrote and co-produced three of the tracks, namely Hate That I Made You Love Me, and the two songs that join it in the singles chart this week – Kiss Me and the title track. Petal’s first week consumption – 25.34% above its immediate predecessor, Eternal Sunshine’s 38,207 start – is the second best of Grande’s career, trailing only Thank U, Next’s 65,214 opening. The others, and their first week tallies in descending order of magnitude: Sweetener (44,755), Positions (27,472), My Everything (23,766), Dangerous Woman (19,582) and Yours Truly (7,164). Despite its slower start and lower peak, My Everything is Grande’s most-consumed album with a to-date tally of 738,847, followed by Dangerous Woman (637,697 units), Thank U, Next (614,831 units), Sweetener (505,599 units), Eternal Sunshine (407,279 units), Positions (346,216 units) and Yours Truly (198,221 units). In the Top 200 continuously since release 126 weeks ago, without ever falling below No.144, Eternal Sunshine jumps 73-49 (2,690 sales) this week, and has spent 71 weeks in the Top 75. Only Dangerous Woman (73 weeks) has had a longer Top 75 career. The only female solo artists in chart history with more No.1 albums than Grande are Taylor Swift (14), Madonna (13), Kylie Minogue (11) and Barbra Streisand (seven). Lana Del Rey and Lady Gaga have also had six. Grande is the third female solo artist in as many weeks to have a No.1 debut on the album chart, following Gracie Abrams and Charli XCX. It is the first time in chart history that this has happened, although in 2024, four albums by female solo artists (Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish and Gracie Abrams) debuted at No.1 in a row, albeit over a seven-week period. Twelve weeks after it debuted at No.13, Katy Perry’s career-encompassing first compilation, The Ones That Got The Plays, rebounds 11-8 (6,401 sales), to surpass its previous peak of No.9. The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (2-2, 13,479 sales) by Michael Jackson, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love (3-3, 12,722 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, The Art Of Loving (5-4, 8,819 sales) by Olivia Dean, Visitor (6-5, 7,598 sales) by Sienna Spiro, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-6, 7,493 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Highlights (10-7, 6,584 sales) by The Weeknd, +-=÷× Tour Collection (13-9, 6,239 sales) by Ed Sheeran and The Great Divide (12-10, 6,147 sales) by Noah Kahan. No.1 on debut last week, Music, Fashion, Film tumbles to No.23 (3,907 sales) for Charli XCX. Also exiting the Top 10, Reality Awaits (8-144, 1,462 sales) by The Strokes, and Top 200 departees Eyes Open (1,166 sales) by Snow Patrol and Little Miss Twain (604 sales) by Shania Twain, number four and seven, respectively, a week ago. Comprising five tracks with a playing time of just under 16 minutes, Olivia Dean’s pre-fame EP Growth is five years old, and to mark the occasion was released physically for the first time last week, on 10-inch vinyl. Said format accounts for 2,543 of the 2,987 units that earn the set a No.42 debut on the album chart, where it becomes Dean’s third entry. More than 46 years after they released their debut album on the iconic Factory Records label, legendary Manchester post-punk band Durutti Column make their very first chart appearance, debuting at No.54 (2,644 sales) with Renascent. It is the first studio album in 15 years by the band, who comprise charismatic leader, guitarist and vocalist Vini Reilly, who just turned 73; 86-year-old drummer Bruce Mitchell; and bass guitarist and producer Keir Stewart, of indeterminate age, who has worked with Reilly and Mitchell for nearly 30 years. Overall album sales are down 0.04% week-on-week to 2,426,938 units, 1.48% above same week 2025 sales of 2,391,581. Physical product accounts for 286,551 sales, 11.81% of the total.