USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' hits No. 1
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ella Langley's “Choosin’ Texas” rises a spot to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the singer-songwriter’s first leader on the list. Among its writers and producers are Langley and

Miranda Lambert, each of whom top the chart for the first time in those fields. “Choosin’ Texas” leads the Hot 100 in its 16th week on the chart (it debuted at No. 39 in early November) with 22.1 million official streams (up 22% week over week), 34.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 8%) and 12,000 sold (up 98%) in the United States Jan. 30-Feb. 5. The single (the 1,187th Hot 100 No. 1 all-time) lifts 2-1 for a second week atop on the Streaming Songs chart; pushes 14-12 on Radio Songs; and climbs 3-2 following two weeks at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales. Langley and Miranda Lambert co-wrote “Choosin’ Texas” with Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor, and co-produced it with Ben West. Each talent tops the Hot 100 for the first time. Noah Kahan claims his highest-charting Hot 100 hit, and first top 10 debut, as “The Great Divide” bounds in at No. 6. It drew 19.3 million streams and 3.3 million in airplay audience and sold 5,000 in its first week, following its Jan.

30 release. The singer-songwriter previously hit the Hot 100’ top 10 with “Stick Season” (No. 9, April 2024). Bad Bunny’s “DtMF” reenters the Hot 100 at No. 10 after his unprecedented night at the Grammy Awards Feb. 1, when his Debí Tirar Más Fotos became the first Spanish-language set ever to win album of the year. The song returns with a 177% surge to 15.1 million streams. It peaked at No. 2 in January 2025. Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, while adding a second week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (66.1 million, up 5%). It’s also up 30% to 16.9 million streams following her Grammy win for best new artist. Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” rebounds 7-3 on the Hot 100 after 10 weeks at No. 1 beginning last June. After Warren, and Dean, performed on the Grammys as part of the night’s best new artist nominees segment, “Ordinary” sports a 23% gain to 15.5 million streams. Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might,” which spent its first two weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 1 in January, rises 6-4. Huntr/x’s “Golden” dips 4-5 on the Hot 100, after eight weeks at No. 1 beginning last August; Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” falls 5-7 after 10 weeks at No. 1 beginning in October; sombr’s “Back to Friends” keeps at No. 8 after reaching No. 7; and Kehlani’s “Folded” holds at No. 9 after hitting No. 6. Don Toliver lands his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Octane starts atop the list dated Feb. 14. The set launches with 162,000 equivalent album units earned (his best week ever) in the United States in the week ending Feb. 5, according to Luminate. Of Octane’s 162,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week SEA units comprise 131,000 (equaling 138.98 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, marking Toliver’s best streaming week ever; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 31,000 (his biggest sales week, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Sales of the album got a boost from its availability across multiple deluxe boxed sets containing a copy of a CD and a piece of branded clothing, vinyl variants and three deluxe digital download editions of the album (each with one bonus track). Bad Bunny’s former No. 1 DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS jumps 9-2 on the latest Billboard 200, following its win for album of the year at the Grammy Awards (Feb. 1). The set earned 85,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week ending Feb. 5, up 138% compared to the previous week. The project also won best música urbana album, while its track “EoO” won best global music performance. Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem falls a spot to No. 3 with 77,000 equivalent album units earned (up 11%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving gets pushed down a spot to No. 4 despite a 38% increase (to 70,000), following her win for best new artist at the Grammy Awards. Two former leaders are next: Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl climbs 6-5 (46,000, up 1%) and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack steps 8-6 (43,000, up 6%). Noah Kahan’s Stick Season steps back into the top 10 for the first time in more than a year, rising 13-7, with 42,000 equivalent album units (up 48%). The singer-songwriter’s new single, “The Great Divide,” dropped Jan. 30, while its music video premiered during a commercial break on CBS’ broadcast of the Grammy Awards Feb. 1. The track is the lead single from the album of the same name, due April 24. Then, on Feb. 2, Kahan announced a stadium tour that is slated to begin on June 11. Stick Season, which peaked at No. 2 in March 2024, was last in the top 10 on the Nov. 23, 2024-dated chart (No. 10) and last ranked at No. 7 or higher on the Aug. 24, 2024-dated chart (No. 7). Three former No. 1s round out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200: Zach Bryan’s With Heaven on Top falls 4-8 (41,000 equivalent album units earned, down 17%), SZA’s SOS ascends 10-9 (38,000, up 8%) and A$AP Rocky’s Don’t Be Dumb dips 5-10 (34,000, down 25%).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
'Raindance' returns at number one
Monday, February 9, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Dethroned last week by Harry Styles, Dave & Tems return to pole position with Raindance, albeit with consumption down 3.41% to 43,829 units – 320 digital downloads and 43,509 sales-equivalent streams – the lowest for a No.1 single for 27 weeks. It is a consequence of a 49.03% dip in consumption

of Styles’ Aperture, which dives 1-4 (35,930 sales). Styles’ first solo No.1, Sign Of The Times, was also a one-week topper in 2017, but his second, As It Was, racked up 10 straight weeks at the apex in 2022 before being overhauled by Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill. The Great Divide – Noah Kahan’s follow-up to his double platinum breakthrough album Stick Season – is due in April, and ahead of it, the title track has been released as a single. Opening its account at No.10 (31,325 sales) it is Kahan’s eighth charted single and third Top 10 entry. Olivia Dean has two songs in the Top 10 and one at No.11 once again, all increasing consumption following her Grammy win, with So Easy (To Fall In Love) (8-6, 33,865 sales), Sam Fender duet Rein Me In (9-7, 32,357 sales) and Man I Need (11-11, 29,296 sales) registering week-on-week gains of 10.15%, 13.24% and 13.03%, respectively. The ACR-impacted Man I Need reasserts itself at the top of the Top 200 combined

tracks chart, with unadjusted consumption of 57,646 units - its record 23rd straight week above 50,000 - earning it an eighth week atop that list. Dean is also charting with A Couple Minutes (18-16, 17,369 sales) and has a further nine songs ‘starred-out’ of the Top 75. The rest of the Top 10: Where Is My Husband! (4-2, 40,717 sales) by Raye, End Of Beginning (3-3, 38,429 sales) by Djo, The Fate Of Ophelia (5-5, 35,152 sales) by Taylor Swift, and I Just Might (6-8, 32,258 sales) by Bruno Mars and Lush Life (7-9, 31,702 sales) by Zara Larsson. All suffer declining consumption in an expanding market, with the Djo and Swift titles set to fall into ACR next week. Overall singles consumption is up 0.85% week-on-week to 31,665,330 units, 4.16% above same week 2025 sales of 30,399,979 units. Paid-for sales are up 0.96% week-on-week at 273,663, 3.22% above same week 2025 sales of 265,135. Her already high profile boosted by her success at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday (February 1), when she won the prestigious Best New Artist gong, Olivia Dean races back to No.1 with her sophomore album, The Art Of Loving. Increasing consumption 16.02% week-on-week to 18,557 units (1,210 CDs, 2,116 vinyl albums, 11 cassettes, 403 digital downloads and 14,817 sales-equivalent streams), The Art Of Loving raises its 19-week cume to 381,641 units – and it should receive further awards season boosts from the BRITs (five nominations) on February 28 and MOBOs (four nominations) on March 26 – both of which are to be staged at Manchester’s Co-op Live arena The Art Of Loving’s return to No.1, to secure its sixth week in total at the summit, was not a shoe-in – Lily Allen’s critically-acclaimed comeback album, West End Girl, was ahead in all but the last of the week’s sales flashes after being released physically for the first time. The album, which debuted 14 weeks ago at No.4, and peaked at No.2 the following week, revisits that peak, rocketing 92 places with consumption soaring 578.82% to 13,726 units – including 3,401 CDs, 7,557 vinyl albums and 840 USB sticks. The highest new entry is Wasted On Youth, the incendiary debut album by teen siblings The Molotovs. Channelling a cocktail of retro genres – new wave, punk, indie and rock – the precocious pair have racked up more than 600 live gigs, and released as series of well-received but uncharted singles head of the album, which storms to a No.3 debut on consumption of 10,004 units. A racing certainty to become his first solo No.1 album in America this week, singer/rapper Don Toliver’s fifth album, Octane, earns the 31-year-old Texan his first UK Top 10 entry, debuting at No.4 (8,978 sales), although available only digitally. All of Toliver’s solo output has gone Top 40 here, and Top 10 in America, where he also has two No.1 albums as part of JackBoys. In the UK, JackBoys albums were exiled to the compilation chart. A very popular support band at Oasis’ Live 25 gigs last year, veteran Liverpool Britpop/alt-rock legends Cast secure their highest chart position this century, with Yeah Yeah Yeah debuting at No.8 (7,318 sales). Their eighth studio set, sixth Top 75 entry and fourth Top 10 album, it is their highest-charting album since 1999. Three of Cast’s four members have been with the band for upwards of 30 years, including 1992 founder member, guitarist and lead vocalist 58-year-old John Power, who is the sole writer of every song on the new album. Debuting at No.9 (6,803 sales) after the band’s sell-out gig at the O2 Academy earlier this week, And I’d Do It Again is the first full-length album by Only The Poets, whose EP, One More Night, reached No.48 in 2024. From Reading, the band formed in 2017, and all of the songs on And I’d Do It Again were co-penned by lead guitarist and vocalist Tom Longhurst, most of them with outsiders. No.1 on debut in 2003, Michael Jackson compilation Number Ones is back in the Top 75 after an absence of 154 weeks (nearly three years) and the Top 10 after an absence of 863 weeks (more than 16 years) following its release on vinyl for the first time in two variants. The album is a re-entry at No. 7 (7,562 units, of which the vinyl accounts for 2,622). Its surge coincides with a 10-93 slump (2,084 sales) for 2005 compilation The Essential, which thus ends a straight 154 week run in the Top 75. Actually, it’s not a coincidence at all – OCC chart regulations state that when a track appears on more than one compilation by an artist, said track will have its streams – whatever the source – directed to ‘the hits title with the greatest DUS for that given week’. The rest of the Top 10: 50 Years: Don’t Stop (5-5, 8,683 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Highlights (6-6, 7,613 sales) by The Weeknd and Man’s Best Friend (8-10, 6,581 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter. Overall album sales are up 2.01% week-on-week at 2,622,640 units, 2.65% above same week 2025 sales of 2,554,938. Physical product accounts for 335,178 sales, 12.78% of the total.